New morning dogwalk achievement unlocked: owl swoop. It flew up to us, kind of hover-flapped in front of the tree we were at, saw Max, did a "nope nope nope" and flew off to another tree. All *completely silently*. Like, wow, the fact they can flap those giant wings and there's no sound? Love it.

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so if you are 14-18 and probably not very used to the sort of thing, do you think you could solve the following bit of doggerel I dashed off this morning? I have a face but cannot see At 3:15 I set you free High above the school I stand All the geese think I look grand

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And Nien Nunb, voiced by Kenyan student Kipsang Rotich, was speaking in his native Kalenjin and in Kikuyu. This translates as "All you over there, come here." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7nV...

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Wait wait, forgot one of my favorites: The Jawa in the original Star Wars movies are speaking Xhosa, a South African language. It's chopped up, pitch-shifted, and nonsensical, but translatable. "Uhutini!" means "What are you saying?"

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It is bananas how many of these scam emails we're all getting every day now. Call me naive for not realising it's an entire industry.

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