What is the difference between Australian English and American English?
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Usa!
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;22570749]My friend who lives in Australia does.
I call it a bathroom, regardless of whether it has a bath or not.[/QUOTE]
Touché.
[QUOTE=Faren;22570235]Jelly:
[img]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/5d6400jelly.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That jelly has my name in it!
I am Australian, and I know this to be true:
We're the same as English but say "fuck" after every other word. Mayte.
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[QUOTE=xxncxx;22570046]Vegemite is awesome.
I'm not Australian.[/QUOTE]
ily!
I had some American cousins come over to live with us for a few weeks, and they were disgusted by it. Milo, too! They were like "why is this brown if it isn't chocolate flavoured?!"
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;22570749]I call it a bathroom, regardless of whether it has a bath or not.[/QUOTE]
I use:
Bathroom - In a house
Washroom - In a public building
And about the jam/jelly/jello thing, here in Canada:
Jam - Soft, easily spreadable. Has fruit chunks in it. Comes in lots of flavours, good on toast. Strawberry jam is what we make the classic PB&J sandwiches out of.
Jelly - More gelatinous, no fruit chunks, but still sort of spreadable and used for various things. Mint jelly goes on lamb, apple jelly is good with chicken, cranberry jelly is good with turkey, etc. You can use it with toast as well if you want.
Jello - Brand name of a dessert. Wiggly, bouncy, good with whipped cream on it.
I'm an Australian, Victorian to be precise, and I've never heard anyone say "Gaol". I wasn't even aware that that existed. There's also "Theatre" for your "Theater"
[QUOTE=Flyingman356;22575762]There's also "Theatre" for your "Theater"[/QUOTE]
Yeah, same with Canada. Theatre, centre, metre.
I sometimes just keep bouncing between different spellings, mainly with words that only have z/s replaced, though I try to be consistent. But I always use:
Tire instead of tyre. It just looks less ridiculous to write.
Through instead of thru. Thru seems to bastardized.
Aluminium instead of aluminum. Also I instantly hate anyone who writes it wrong.
Can't really think of any more.
american English is the dumbed down version
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[QUOTE=Murkrow;22575869]I sometimes just keep bouncing between different spellings, mainly with words that only have z/s replaced, though I try to be consistent. But I always use:
Tire instead of tyre. It just looks less ridiculous to write.
Through instead of thru. Thru seems to bastardized.
Aluminium instead of aluminum. Also I instantly hate anyone who writes it wrong.
Can't really think of any more.[/QUOTE]
YA DAS SPEELING IST RIDICULOUS I HATE JEWWW s
[QUOTE=Chad Mobile;22561338]What is the difference between Australian English and American English? On most websites, there is an option for Australian English as well as British English and American English. What's that about? Are they suddenly going to say "Alright Mate, click 'ere to find 'a link to 'a porno." for Australians, but say "Pip Pip Cheerio, Click here for some naked girls." for British people, and say "Click here for porn." for Americans? I'm confused.[/QUOTE]
you've been on some weird fetish porn sites?
Austrolion Enlglish has alot of slang in it and you need to loern to use the word cunt all the time.
[QUOTE=decilling;22575928]american English is the dumbed down version
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um
What little differences there are don't make the language any simpler or more complex. They're just changes that have appeared after Webster.
Saying it's 'dumbed down' makes you look like a pretentious douche.
[QUOTE=hurrdurrchan;22575460]I am Australian, and I know this to be true:
We're the same as English but say "fuck" after every other word. Mayte.
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ily!
I had some American cousins come over to live with us for a few weeks, and they were disgusted by it. Milo, too! They were like "why is this brown if it isn't chocolate flavoured?!"[/QUOTE]
firstly Australian English is pretty much the same as British English, i once heard it called international English (all australian words are understood by the english, some of them arent used much though.
secondly- australian junk food ftw! i mean i was born in australia and moved to england, and everytime i went back we would eat shitloads of twistys,wierd coloured jelly,cheezles,burgers with with beetroot etc
[QUOTE=WecksyRex;22576631]um
What little differences there are don't make the language any simpler or more complex. They're just changes that have appeared after Webster.
Saying it's 'dumbed down' makes you look like a pretentious douche.[/QUOTE]
Well they did fuck it up in some respect - consider the term laser. It's an abbreviation, for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. So America goes ahead and calls it lazer. :sigh:
The main difference is, In Australia. We decided to be different and spell words like colour and flavour with a u in them.
[QUOTE=Juggz;22577355]The main difference is, In Australia. We decided to be different and spell words like colour and flavour with a u in them.[/QUOTE]
wrong, americans decided to drop the u, the austalians just didnt decide to fuck with anything
[QUOTE=TheForeigner;22576469]Austrolion Enlglish has alot of slang in it and you need to loern to use the word cunt all the time.[/QUOTE]
I just deleted a comment I spent a wile writing because I realised you are a troll.
The only people to say cock are the people who spend a lot of time playing cod or come from America.
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[QUOTE=MRTW113;22566480]Aussie = +"mate" to the end of every sentence
Says the sterotypes[/QUOTE]
Or wanker
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[QUOTE=Juggz;22577355]The main difference is, In Australia. We decided to be different and spell words like colour and flavour with a u in them.[/QUOTE]
Actually, Americans dropped the U. We still use straight English as we are still part of the commonwealth, which is why we don't have a President.
I use British English on some words, especially theatre. It just looks better.
[QUOTE=sphynx;22577217]Well they did fuck it up in some respect - consider the term laser. It's an abbreviation, for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. So America goes ahead and calls it lazer. :sigh:[/QUOTE]
what? I've never seen it spelled "lazer" and dictionary.com and webster agree with me:
[url]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lazer[/url]
[url]http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lazer[/url]
The only other reason I can think that you might've seen it spelled that way is marketing on a package that was trying to pass something off as a laser, but since it wasn't really they were forced to change the spelling so people wouldn't sue them for false advertisement.
[QUOTE=WecksyRex;22576631]um
What little differences there are don't make the language any simpler or more complex. They're just changes that have appeared after Webster.
Saying it's 'dumbed down' makes you look like a pretentious douche.[/QUOTE]
It is kinda dumbed down, it probably wasn't intentional but with words like colour/color its been shortened and so its marginally easier to spell also where the english spell words like realise americans spell it realize which sort of matches the pronunciation better, again making it simpler.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;22578351]It is kinda dumbed down, it probably wasn't intentional but with words like colour/color its been shortened and so its marginally easier to spell also where the english spell words like realise americans spell it realize which sort of matches the pronunciation better, again making it simpler.[/QUOTE]
Actually, -ize- is official Oxford spelling.
[QUOTE=Jobby;22561434]Australian English is upside down.[/QUOTE]
ʎuunɟ ǝɹɐ noʎ 'ǝʇɐɯ ıo
We say "cunt" more often.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;22578351]It is kinda dumbed down, it probably wasn't intentional but with words like colour/color its been shortened and so its marginally easier to spell also where the english spell words like realise americans spell it realize which sort of matches the pronunciation better, again making it simpler.[/QUOTE]
That's not dumbing down; if anything that's optimization. :colbert:
Sigmund Freud has something to say about the OP.
Wanker is an amazing and dynamic word in English. in american english it has little meaning
I usually only see American and English options.
Usually, if you grow up using some form of a language chances are that's how you are going to use it for the rest of your life.
[QUOTE=Pandemix;22561439]What about all the americanisms?
[URL]http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/library/WORDS2.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
That page taught me that British English and American English are basically the exact same.
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