Society & Culture

Australian language?

Society & Culture

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?


Nan
  • 30th Nov 2010 12:20pm

I have found that just by selecting English as your language is not enough. Usually, your spell-check on your computer immediately correct all the words to American spelling. This irritates me no end when I am typing something important as I have to go back and correct into what I consider to be REAL English!


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