Bloody Americans!

Well, i only write and speak the Queen's English, with - perhaps - some excessive magniloquence and rhyming slang. I do, on occasion, find myself Americanising words, but have to stop myself quickly, although i do kind of agree with some of their spellings.

Why can't the septics sort out the rough, through, borough style words, they must be a fucking nightmare for people trying to learn our language?
 
I read in a book that speaking to certain Americans can actually make you dumber.
Hahaha, ahhh, that really made me laugh :p

Ive got my keyboard set to US for some reason and now I am so used to having the @ and " symbols set around the wrong way and other keys that I can't type on other PC's anymore lol. Still can't find the hash key either lol
 
now i know ur an aussie i think the abbreviations come from the fact that 99% of the Aussie population are as lazy as you get. and saying rego instead of registration is to hard lol

I just gained massive respect for the aussies. Think how efficient they must be if they change an entire language to be lazy. Total badasses they are.
 
The Americans can keep the english language. We don't need it anymore

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly,this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favor of the 'k'. This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replased with the 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20% shorter!
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' wiz 'v'.
During ze fifz year ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After ze fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensibl ritn styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evriun vil find it ezi tu undrstand ech ozer.
Zen Z Drem Vil Finali Kum Tru!
 
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn?t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
 
Let's stop bashing American spelling and start on the Aussies instead...why do they have to abbreviate every single word and put an "o" on the end, it sort of sounds like a cross between English and Spanish sometimes...

So true, and I'm sure Harro would agree, oh wait he's from the UK.


I like the spelling differences and wikipedia as always explains how they came about.

Code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

Australians usually use the UK spellings for most words, although it is becoming common to see American spelling used.

As for abbreviating everything, that is the Australian way.

A

Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules football
Amber fluid : beer
Ambo : ambulance, ambulance driver
Ankle biter : small child
Apples, she'll be : It'll be all right
Arvo : afternoon
Aussie (pron. Ozzie) : Australian
Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand
Avos : avocados

The rest of the alphabet is here:

Code:
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
 
If you guys have problems with the grammar, i can help you

I speak London very best!!

:D
 
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