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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-25 10:03:00
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Entry tags:community: techsupport, defensiveness ahoy, dictionaries are for losers, get your ampersands here, grammar and spelling, language

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
A rocket scientist over in [info]techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.

Good times.


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[info]napalmnacey
2008-11-25 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Here in Australia, we use "youse". "Hey youse guys!" Which is kinda funny, cause apparently there are areas of the US that use that word as well.

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[info]misswitch
2008-11-25 11:54 pm UTC (link)
"Youse guys" is huge in the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) area.

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[info]napalmnacey
2008-11-26 12:04 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I knew it was somewhere like that, I just couldn't remember the name. :)

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[info]issendai
2008-11-26 03:44 am UTC (link)
Out of curiosity, what was the nationality of the folks who founded that particular accent in Australia? I ask because certain languages seem to produce the same effect wherever they land--f'rinstance, there's a group of Italian-Americans in Louisiana who had no contact with New Yorkers, but their accent is almost indistinguishable from a New York accent.

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[info]napalmnacey
2008-11-26 04:08 am UTC (link)
Heh, I think it might have been the 'wogs' as the racist jerks here called them, the Italians, Greek, Macedonian and other Mediterranian places.

A lot of bogans and okkas talk like that too, though, so I don't know the definite source.

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