G'day

I do not like to see "texting" language creeping in to daily use, but I am an old pedant and I guess I have to get used to it. English is not constant but is in a constant state of change.

But, I just wish people would READ what they have written before they post it. Then they might just fix some of the grammar and spelling mistakes which are obvious. The original post was more or less understandable but I have seen some on this site that were completely unintelligible.

It is difficult to ask a question when you don't now what the thing you are asking about is called.

As for The Australian Accent, some friends from the US visited us here in Oz a few years ago. They were from one of the mid western states. We had no problem at all understanding them but we were a complete mystery to them, at least at first. After they had been here for a couple of weeks they were starting to understand Oztralian.

The father of the family was particularly taken by Cricket. I was watching a match on TV. He asked how long the game would take. I said it was a One Day game and would end late at night. He was amazed that a game could last so long. He told me that baseball games were all over in a couple of hours. I pointed out that this was a short game. Real cricket, Test Cricket, lasts up to five days. This totally floored him. He was even more floored when I pointed out that sometimes after a five day game, the result is a draw. This he simply could not understand.

One man's normal is another man's weird.

Mike in Oz