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Little things that annoy you....
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Tigertool said:
YES! Yet another stupid seppo mangling of the English language that we're starting to mindlessly imitate. Almost as bad as teenagers who say "like" at least three times in every sentence. I swear a lot of the younger generation are even starting to develop quasi-American accents.
ld One reason why we need a higher local content quota on TV and should subsidise our own industry with tariffs on overseas films, music & television.
Joe Lynn Turnip said:YES! Yet another stupid seppo mangling of the English language that we're starting to mindlessly imitate. Almost as bad as teenagers who say "like" at least three times in every sentence. I swear a lot of the younger generation are even starting to develop quasi-American accents.
Saw the Bunnings ad repeatedly over the break advertising "coolers". I thought we called them esky's ( unless there's a trademark issue?)
McDonalds say 'sausage' for what is undoubtedly a rissole or a patty. A sausage is cylindrical you dickheads. Why do they do that? Can't they just have a meeting 'item 2, we better not call the brown thing in the breaky wrap a sausage because aussies won't know what we are talking about, we better change it to rissole'. "good work, get onto that'. IT CANT BE THAT HARD.
Trying to drive through the Burnley Tunnell with cruise control on - as soon as you hit the rise to the eastern suburbs morons fail to maintain their speed and you end up crawling up the hill at 50-60 kmh - the speed limit hasn't changed! Needless to say as soon as they are out of the tunnell those same morons speed past you at 90 in an 80 zone.
Same thing on a freeway at 100.
Hit a slight bend and they slow to 85-90, then speed up again once the road's straight.
Then there's the tailgaters. Don't get me started.
Hit a slight bend and they slow to 85-90, then speed up again once the road's straight.
Then there's the tailgaters. Don't get me started.
Big Cat Lover said:
Speed limit drops from 80 to 60 about 100 metres before the tunnel then returns to 80 about 400 metres into the tunnel, this is part of the problem as some drivers don't seem to notice it goes back up to 60. The biggest issue though is trucks who insist they need to drive in the right lane. They slow on the upward slope and cause 95% of the congestion in the tunnel. I hate 'em.
This might have been mentioned already, possibly even by me because I know I have slagged off at Americanisms before. But is there anything more annoying that they do to our language than the fact that they use the word "finals" even when they are only talking about ONE - e.g. the FINAL of a tennis tournament?
Yes, we use that word when talking footy, but in that case there ARE more than one game in "the finals". There is only one FINAL in a knockout tennis tournament, but still they refer to it as "the finals".
Extremely, EXTREMELY, annoying.
Yes, we use that word when talking footy, but in that case there ARE more than one game in "the finals". There is only one FINAL in a knockout tennis tournament, but still they refer to it as "the finals".
Extremely, EXTREMELY, annoying.
'Shot on goal?'
Should be 'shot at goal.'
You wouldn't say 'Foley kicked it on Vickery.'
It would be Foley kicked it 'to' or 'at' Vickery
Should be 'shot at goal.'
You wouldn't say 'Foley kicked it on Vickery.'
It would be Foley kicked it 'to' or 'at' Vickery
23.21.159 said:
Actually every match beyond the round of 16 are called finals - quarters, semis and final. Same as every match after the H&A season in AFL. The only time I've really heard yanks say finals plural is when referring to exams.
But seeing as you bought up the issue of seppo-speak -a pet hate of mine also- and finals, what I find far more annoying is the use of the use of the terms such "play-offs" or even worse "post-season" when referring to a finals series.
Even the habit of saying team's win-loss ratios instead of their premiership points totals gives me the brace and bits.
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