Australian language?
Posted by: Nefertari
25th Nov 2010 06:07pm
My husband was watching an English television program the other day when one of the guests on the show commented on how a lot of other countries take English as their own language whereas only people from England should have English as their main language.
I was quite indignant at this at first but then I thought ...hey, she's right... we should have our own language! In my opinion our language though based on English should be called Australian.
What do others think?
Shay-Dee
- 29th Nov 2010 05:47pm
Yup, its already referred to as Australian English, you can even select that as an option with some programs. And I am sure there are now Australian English Dictionaries as well as UK and American English ones.
A lot of foreigners prefer to actually speak Australian or UK English as their second language. I have no problem with this at all
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