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Mother tongue: Rhiannon became obsessed with Korean culture at school

Mother tongue: Rhiannon became obsessed with Korean culture at school


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8695371/British-student-has-tongue-lengthened-to-speak-Korean.html

 

Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones who is so obsessed with Korean culture that she has had her tonge surgically lengthened to help her speak the language: British student has tongue lengthened to speak Korean
Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones who is so obsessed with Korean culture that she has had her tonge surgically lengthened to help her speak the language Photo: PAUL TONGE

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3747478/Student-has-tongue-job-to-speak-Korean.html

 

Not tongue tied ... Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones
Not tongue tied ... Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones
Paul Tonge / RPP

1 posted on 08/12/2011 2:07:58 AM PDT by Stoat
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To: Slings and Arrows; Tax-chick
"If the Korean language studies don't work out she can always play in a rock band ping"

 

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2 posted on 08/12/2011 2:08:45 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat

IIRC, there was a story a couple years back about Koreans who had their tongues surgically altered so they could speaking English more fluently.

It’s a strange world...


3 posted on 08/12/2011 2:15:43 AM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!)
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To: Stoat

"just boosted her facebook followers a few thousand, especially from the flannel shirt mob"

5 posted on 08/12/2011 2:54:20 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Stoat

I’m in love~~~~~!


6 posted on 08/12/2011 3:01:47 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Stoat

Well, she has that problem licked.


8 posted on 08/12/2011 3:09:05 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Stoat

Looks like her tongue wasn’t the only thing she had enlarged.


10 posted on 08/12/2011 3:23:28 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Stoat

I remember a story about an asian guy who was an inch too short to make it as a cop so when he moved to another location he tried again and made it but not before he gave himself a lump on the top of his head.

And then there is this dork...Oh look, she’s wearing those eyeglasses designed to make the wearer look intelligent!


11 posted on 08/12/2011 3:37:05 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Charles Henrickson

:p


12 posted on 08/12/2011 4:20:31 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Stoat

In the 3rd (bottom) picture, she looks like Angelina Jolie! LOL


13 posted on 08/12/2011 4:32:22 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Stoat; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones, from Nottingham, had her tongue lengthened by 1cm. . . .

I would say she added an Inchon.

16 posted on 08/12/2011 6:29:48 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Tongue tied.)
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To: Stoat; mikrofon; martin_fierro
she has had her tonge surgically lengthened to help her speak the language Photo: PAUL TONGE

Of course.

17 posted on 08/12/2011 6:33:26 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Tongue tied.)
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To: Stoat

You mean surgery can make your tongue longer?

Sigh, please - no one tell my girlfriend.


18 posted on 08/12/2011 7:13:27 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Stoat

And here all I needed to speak better Korean was a few beers. It was surprising how much that helped. Too bad I couldn’t do it on the job, too.


20 posted on 08/12/2011 7:37:57 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: Stoat

I’ve known several people in my life who’ve had their “Frens” snipped. Some people are thought to be “tongue tied” due to the “Frens” being extended to far towards the tip of the tongue. (Frens lingua)

Now, why or how would those conversations ever come up? LOL When I was a kid, my Brother talked me into putting my tongue on a frozen metal flag pole. Then, after I had been crying for a minute or so, he “helped” me pull it free. (bastage!) My “Fren” got stuck between my lower teeth and ripped. Now my tongue appears to be much longer and, I often (even at my old age) accidentally bite it. Oh, could I tell you some stories-like the time I bit it at a Taco Bell and they called 911. lol


21 posted on 08/12/2011 8:48:57 AM PDT by papasmurf (War is hell, but not the worst hell. Having a PRES__ENT comes close!)
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To: Stoat

Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to just knock her teeth back?


22 posted on 08/12/2011 9:59:25 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Stoat

I’d hit that.


38 posted on 08/12/2011 1:49:54 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Why did you post this, and why did you post it on Free Republic?)
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To: Stoat

Chick be crazy.


41 posted on 08/12/2011 1:59:53 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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