Miscellaneous/Vermischtes

To make up for the lack of posting, here are some miscellaneous links of things I've noticed on the Internet. 1. Suppenfuß, from Feetart by Stoecker Fotografie - many more photos on site. This one recalls Suppengrün (soup vegetables) and also pigs' trotters, which I think are a similar price per kilo. 2. This has been widely linked - Tracy Goodwin is an American coach who teaches people to speak with what she believes is a British accent (she refers to the 'British dialect'). One link is on The English Blog. Jeffrey Hill says: Tracy may be an expert in some things but definitely not in speaking with a British accent. Hers is all over the place—sort of a cross between Dick Van Dyke's Cockney chimney sweep in Mary Poppins and the Queen. On YouTube you can see How to Speak with an American Accent. A Parody of the Tracy Goodwin videoby ELIPTIS (note picture on wall in the two videos). Heavy emphasis on the fact that this is not meant seriously did not get through to all the commenters. That is so far from ANY American accent I have ever heard in any state. The U.S. spans an entire continent from east to west. There are numerous ways of pronouncing words in the U.S. I am American and often I could not understand what you were saying either when you were speaking with a British accent or ATTEMPTING to sound like an American. Perhaps you would find it good to practice a lot more before you make your next video about American English. ELIPTIS replies: Its a Parody you fool. Parody = " A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule." I was taking off, which means copying Tracy Goodwins video of an English Accent.... 3. BBC News reports that Tokyo's oldest man had been dead in bed for thirty years. Mr Kato's relatives told po…