Originally posted by Frenchie
That's very unfortunate because the Australian accent sounds far better than the other two.
no way! plus, there's like 100 different english accents.
Sunsnail
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
play more forged alliance you little jew, sunsnail! :mad:
I play it all the time..
Domesticated
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Originally posted by Sunsnail
All I have to go off of is ray
Please refer further back in this thread. :gsmile:
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Originally posted by Frenchie
That's very unfortunate because the Australian accent sounds far better than the other two.
It depends what kind. There are three main accents and several locational variations.
There’s “common”, “middle” and “upper” Australian which I suppose relate to socioeconomic classes. Steve Irwin’s was “common”, which can be just as excruciating to some locals as to people from other countries.
“Upper” tends to sound quite nice. I used to have something approaching this but after working in the administration/clerical side of a menial industry and being in constant contact with employees, my language has slipped dramatically.
Upper (Geoffrey Rush)
Common (Steve Irwin)
Steve Irwin did put it on a bit too.
Frenchie
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
no way! plus, there's like 100 different english accents.
Yes way. I'm a fan of accents and Australian is by fay one of my favorites. I could listen to someone with that accent talk about just about anything and be swooned.
Sunsnail
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Originally posted by Domesticated
Please refer further back in this thread. :gsmile:
I read it. I don't care.
mezzir
oh , grammar thread!
i've recently been observing what seems to me to be a new phenomenon. first time i saw it was in arrested development, Buster refers to the army as just simply 'army', not 'the army'. As in, 'Army had a half day', or 'I just found out I'm going overseas, army wants me after all.' Now I just attributed this to buster being buster and took it as a subtle way for him to just sound strange. However, over the last few weeks on the radio and on tv I've heard during various news segments correspondents refer to organizations without an article preceding them (' this week, fed may lower interest rates, according to fda, salmon contains mercury, treasury may lower interest rates). Now, I admit that for some acronyms we don't use articles before them (unicef, nato, opec), but others we do (the UN, the the USA). Basically, I'm wondering if dropping the article before fed, treasury, or FDA is incorrect or just sounds weird to me, and in general what the rules governing this is in general.
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Sunsnail
I play it all the time..
good lad!! :) playing any ranked?
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Originally posted by Frenchie
Yes way. I'm a fan of accents and Australian is by fay one of my favorites. I could listen to someone with that accent talk about just about anything and be swooned.
ill keep that in mind! :tongue2
Domesticated
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Originally posted by mezzir
oh , grammar thread!
i've recently been observing what seems to me to be a new phenomenon. first time i saw it was in arrested development, Buster refers to the army as just simply 'army', not 'the army'. As in, 'Army had a half day', or 'I just found out I'm going overseas, army wants me after all.' Now I just attributed this to buster being buster and took it as a subtle way for him to just sound strange. However, over the last few weeks on the radio and on tv I've heard during various news segments correspondents refer to organizations without an article preceding them (' this week, fed may lower interest rates, according to fda, salmon contains mercury, treasury may lower interest rates). Now, I admit that for some acronyms we don't use articles before them (unicef, nato, opec), but others we do (the UN, the the USA). Basically, I'm wondering if dropping the article before fed, treasury, or FDA is incorrect or just sounds weird to me, and in general what the rules governing this is in general.
Interesting. I suppose "the" isn't strictly necessary, but I like the way it sounds...though this is likely just an effect of my conditioning/upbringing.
Anyone remember in George Orwell's 1984 when they strip back all superfluous elements of the language so there is no "good/bad", "beautiful/ugly", only "ungood", "unbeautiful"? Interesting concept.
Noisician
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Originally posted by Lira
Wow, I couldn't have asked for a better explanation. Thank you very much indeed, Noisician :)
By the way, it's just that you wrote the second example with brackets, have you ever seen a website called phpSyntaxTree? It's really handy :D
that's the one i usually use, too. i just couldn't be arsed to draw the second tree. i always it up on the first try.
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Originally posted by PETRAN
This thread is full of Chomsky's alts
oh , you almost got me! i'm actually nim chimpsky, his most diligent student.
Lira
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Originally posted by Noisician
that's the one i usually use, too. i just couldn't be arsed to draw the second tree. i always it up on the first try.
Hahaha, I always get the weirdest looking trees. But, I'm no syntactician :D
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Originally posted by Noisician
oh , you almost got me! i'm actually nim chimpsky, his most diligent student.
A-HA! I knew it! No human being can actually listen to Merzbow, you had to be an undead chimp! :p
Darkarbiter
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Originally posted by Lira
But can't you use "burned" for both in American English?
yes but american english is .
gehzumteufel
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Originally posted by Darkarbiter
yes but english is .
