BTW why US Enlgish, not just English??
cool, a US/UK war, that's great for a change !
Forge, I suggest you use "french" for Live install, since it doesn't say "canadian french", plus french seems to be like a second nature to you, and more than that, I feel like you all should be able to speak french in order to get a culture...
ohoh... well....
Forge, I suggest you use "french" for Live install, since it doesn't say "canadian french", plus french seems to be like a second nature to you, and more than that, I feel like you all should be able to speak french in order to get a culture...
ohoh... well....
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Australia have their own spelling as well which is different to Commonwealth English. AFAIK.Nightrider wrote:the new mac's have 'AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH'
it highlights terms such as 'mate' and 'g'day' within my "Australian English Manual"
there's even a crack to get a bouncey kangaroo effect.
I'm sure the American Rebels have their own little dictionaries by now, but I fail to see why they should bother the rest of the world with their puerile behaviour.
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that's the biggest joke of all. Australian English????Nightrider wrote:the new mac's have 'AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH'
it highlights terms such as 'mate' and 'g'day' within my "Australian English Manual"
there's even a crack to get a bouncey kangaroo effect.
farks ache
so we badly misuse the plural of you and stick an "se" on the end, which they also do in London, Essex/home counties, G'day is an abreviation of Good day and mate every bit as cockney. Do we need a "cockney english" for Eastenders to understand???
It's an attempt by these not very old colonies to form an identity, but English is English, these very subtle differences dont even warrent dialects let alone languages of their own..
we dont even have "scottish english" and "irish english" which are actually quite different dialects.
According to my Aunt from Glasgow, the way one would say "throw it out" in Glaswegian is "thraw it tae fuck"
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A language is a dialect with an army and a flag...forge wrote:It's an attempt by these not very old colonies to form an identity, but English is English, these very subtle differences dont even warrent dialects let alone languages of their own..
African-American Vernacular English is recognised as a separate language by most lingusts and so on and so forth.
And I think it is, err, fair dinkum for the colonies to form(alise) indentities of their own; would you not agree that being Australian is not the same as being English? It's a natural process, IMHO - I don't really blame the Norwegians for remodelling their language and reclaiming Henrik Ibsen et al after they gained their independence either. These nation, state, and ethnicity constructs are largely illusional, after all, but the people seem to cling to them like wreckage - leading amongst other things to the ongoing "interesting debate" about integration vs. assimilation of immigrants.
that may be so, but the differences between British English and Australian English is like the difference between red and red. Try all you like to find a slightly redder shade of red but all you will find is red.noisetonepause wrote:A language is a dialect with an army and a flag...forge wrote:It's an attempt by these not very old colonies to form an identity, but English is English, these very subtle differences dont even warrent dialects let alone languages of their own..
African-American Vernacular English is recognised as a separate language by most lingusts and so on and so forth.
And I think it is, err, fair dinkum for the colonies to form(alise) indentities of their own; would you not agree that being Australian is not the same as being English? It's a natural process, IMHO - I don't really blame the Norwegians for remodelling their language and reclaiming Henrik Ibsen et al after they gained their independence either. These nation, state, and ethnicity constructs are largely illusional, after all, but the people seem to cling to them like wreckage - leading amongst other things to the ongoing "interesting debate" about integration vs. assimilation of immigrants.
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Don't refute my pseudointellectualisms with facts, you bastard!forge wrote:that may be so, but the differences between British English and Australian English is like the difference between red and red. Try all you like to find a slightly redder shade of red but all you will find is red.noisetonepause wrote:A language is a dialect with an army and a flag...forge wrote:It's an attempt by these not very old colonies to form an identity, but English is English, these very subtle differences dont even warrent dialects let alone languages of their own..
African-American Vernacular English is recognised as a separate language by most lingusts and so on and so forth.
And I think it is, err, fair dinkum for the colonies to form(alise) indentities of their own; would you not agree that being Australian is not the same as being English? It's a natural process, IMHO - I don't really blame the Norwegians for remodelling their language and reclaiming Henrik Ibsen et al after they gained their independence either. These nation, state, and ethnicity constructs are largely illusional, after all, but the people seem to cling to them like wreckage - leading amongst other things to the ongoing "interesting debate" about integration vs. assimilation of immigrants.
#noisetonepause wrote:Don't refute my pseudointellectualisms with facts, you bastard!forge wrote:that may be so, but the differences between British English and Australian English is like the difference between red and red. Try all you like to find a slightly redder shade of red but all you will find is red.noisetonepause wrote: A language is a dialect with an army and a flag...
African-American Vernacular English is recognised as a separate language by most lingusts and so on and so forth.
And I think it is, err, fair dinkum for the colonies to form(alise) indentities of their own; would you not agree that being Australian is not the same as being English? It's a natural process, IMHO - I don't really blame the Norwegians for remodelling their language and reclaiming Henrik Ibsen et al after they gained their independence either. These nation, state, and ethnicity constructs are largely illusional, after all, but the people seem to cling to them like wreckage - leading amongst other things to the ongoing "interesting debate" about integration vs. assimilation of immigrants.
pseudointellectualisms are for refuting!
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Yes, but they're all I know!forge wrote:#noisetonepause wrote:Don't refute my pseudointellectualisms with facts, you bastard!forge wrote: that may be so, but the differences between British English and Australian English is like the difference between red and red. Try all you like to find a slightly redder shade of red but all you will find is red.
pseudointellectualisms are for refuting!