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| We installed an Echo at home, when they first were released in the UK. One evening, during a time of prayer in our church homegroup, Alexa thought she/he/it was being addressed (Want to know who God is? Now you can ask Alexa, 25 May). As the group sat, heads bowed in contemplation, the device broke into the silence as a voice of still calm: “I’m sorry, I cannot help you.” Startled, we looked up, with one shocked participant saying: “God just spoke – she’s a woman and can’t help us!” The lesson, is that new technology might challenge as well as build faith.Matt JonesSwansea | We installed an Echo at home, when they first were released in the UK. One evening, during a time of prayer in our church homegroup, Alexa thought she/he/it was being addressed (Want to know who God is? Now you can ask Alexa, 25 May). As the group sat, heads bowed in contemplation, the device broke into the silence as a voice of still calm: “I’m sorry, I cannot help you.” Startled, we looked up, with one shocked participant saying: “God just spoke – she’s a woman and can’t help us!” The lesson, is that new technology might challenge as well as build faith.Matt JonesSwansea |
| • “We have one woman already on the board, so we are done” (Report, 1 June). Ah yes: woman as cappuccino machine (“but we’ve already got one!”), to quote the glorious Tina Fey.Dr Abby InnesLondon School of Economics | • “We have one woman already on the board, so we are done” (Report, 1 June). Ah yes: woman as cappuccino machine (“but we’ve already got one!”), to quote the glorious Tina Fey.Dr Abby InnesLondon School of Economics |
| • When I first stayed on the Greek island of Skopelos, I happily greeted people with “kalamaree” until I discovered I should of course be saying “kaleemera”. Afterwards I realised why I was receiving some very odd looks (Letters, 28 May).Marion BergersenFolkestone, Kent | • When I first stayed on the Greek island of Skopelos, I happily greeted people with “kalamaree” until I discovered I should of course be saying “kaleemera”. Afterwards I realised why I was receiving some very odd looks (Letters, 28 May).Marion BergersenFolkestone, Kent |
| • Some years ago at my bookshop a mother and her young son enquired about Asterix (The gall! Astérix show throws spotlight on forgotten anglicisation, 11 May). This was for the next school project. I was happy to help – as I was again a few days later when they returned to swap it for a book on the Aztecs.George KelsallLittleborough, Lancashire | • Some years ago at my bookshop a mother and her young son enquired about Asterix (The gall! Astérix show throws spotlight on forgotten anglicisation, 11 May). This was for the next school project. I was happy to help – as I was again a few days later when they returned to swap it for a book on the Aztecs.George KelsallLittleborough, Lancashire |
| • Fans of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore will have been amused to see that the Sun has a “head of PR” (Letters, 1 May ), a role that makes the job of extracting lobsters from Jayne Mansfield’s bum look like a walk in the park.Mike HineKingston upon Thames | • Fans of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore will have been amused to see that the Sun has a “head of PR” (Letters, 1 May ), a role that makes the job of extracting lobsters from Jayne Mansfield’s bum look like a walk in the park.Mike HineKingston upon Thames |
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