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In Australia, it’s common to shorten names, then add:

• “-o” suffix to names ending with a consonant sound. Thus, David>Dave>Davo, Steven>Steve>Stevo, John>Johnno, Dominique>Dom>Dommo
• “-az” or “-azza” to names ending with, or containing, an “ar” syllable. Gary>Gaz or Gazza, Sharon>Shaz or Shazza, Barry>Bazza
• ”-ie” (“ee” sound) to names ending with a vowel sound (but sometimes with consonant sound too). Stuart>Stew>Stewie, Frank>Frankie, Don>Donnie

I was much happier before I woke up.

Our cat walks around and yells most of the night. Some nights (not many) he will sleep in the bed with us. He sleeps most of the day.

Who’s Gina?

Your mom’s.

I always pronounced “only” as “on-lie”. I heard other people say “only” and couldn’t understand what they meant.

Makes me think of the aliens in Edge of Tomorrow.

I’ve been thinking for hours how to describe it.

It’sa sort of echoing scraping noise. A sheet of plywood lying on the ground, being kicked down the road. Only it’s quite faint, I can only hear it when the room is quiet or when I’m trying to get to sleep.

I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side or up and down.

Vegemite. That first heady whiff of yeast and salt when you open a new jar.

I got my (uncommon but not rare) surname and country code, similar to for example smith.uk, so I can have an email address like (but not exactly) john@smith.uk. That’s good enough for me.

I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.

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When I was working at a follow-the-Sun help desk, and had a micromanaging boss, we used this planner to book daily meetings across three different timezones.

Latin, or even better, Klingon