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  • perhaps due to the infuence of Hindi transliteration, this looks a lot like the Korean 'balli he!' (발리해)--"hurry up and do it!"--which the kids invariably yell--in the most wrenching, nasal tones--at the one slow kid who can't quite repeat "My favourite colour is..."

    June 12, 2009

  • I don't have a favourite colour. I'd be yelled at all day :-(

    June 12, 2009

  • Nor do I, bilby. But in these situations I've learnt (slowly and painfully) that it's better to just make something up. You can actually have a lot of fun that way, so everyone's happy.

    June 12, 2009

  • Paging Prolagus! Wordies are talking about themselves!

    June 12, 2009

  • Balli he!

    June 12, 2009