A car boot sale doesn't happen in someone's home - it happens in a special place - usually a field, or a large car park - set up especially for the purpose with numerous people coming to park their cars and set up a stall. They often start early in the morning, at weekends. I've never actually been to one
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This has changed so much over the years. It used to be a satchel, but they don't exist any more.
The changes over time strike me, too. Jared Diamond devotes a long section of The World Until Yesterday to the disappearance of languages. He likens it to species extinction. I hear American accents homogenizing themselves to a sort of west-coast generic newscaster (handy for me, because that is the local dialect of American where I come from), which seems rather bland. On the other hand, the same process (television, more open international trade, etc.) has expanded our horizons to where we maybe even try pancakes for breakfast or learn how to make a decent cup of tea
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The changes over time strike me, too. Jared Diamond devotes a long section of The World Until Yesterday to the disappearance of languages. He likens it to species extinction. I hear American accents homogenizing themselves to a sort of west-coast generic newscaster (handy for me, because that is the local dialect of American where I come from), which seems rather bland. On the other hand, the same process (television, more open international trade, etc.) has expanded our horizons to where we maybe even try pancakes for breakfast or learn how to make a decent cup of tea ( ... )
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