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 amazeer
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| posted on December 18th, 2008 at 09:16 PM |
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people who "specialise" in a whole range of things
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| posted on December 19th, 2008 at 09:19 AM |
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"awesome" has lost it's impact for me. I tend to think 'yeah whatever' when I hear it overused these days ... it is usually said at work as a
form of positive feedback, but because it is overly used and not with the right inflection it sounds blah
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| posted on December 19th, 2008 at 10:31 AM |
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I can't stand it when sporting people like cricketers, footy players and olympians are called 'heroes'. They are not heroes; they are just good at
sport. Especially when they won't tour India or Pakistan because it's too dangerous, EXCEPT to make money in the IPL.
The REAL heroes are our guys and girls putting their lives on the line in the armed forces, in the Police, fire brigades and ambulance services.
Another extension on 'ITS' Jay - The Kombi had a fire in its engine bay and it's going to be mess. You do put an apostrophe in 'its' when it is
short for 'it is'.
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| posted on December 19th, 2008 at 11:51 AM |
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Yes, I did in the first line of that post 
Part of Melbourne's Unreal Aircooled VW Community
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| posted on December 19th, 2008 at 03:59 PM |
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I hate it when people use "****" cos they can't remember which swear word is appropriate for the occasion.
If you can't fix it with a hammer,
you have an electrical problem....
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| posted on December 19th, 2008 at 04:59 PM |
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"BUGGY" "BRAD"
Click the Beetle
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| posted on December 19th, 2008 at 05:14 PM |
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| posted on December 21st, 2008 at 12:40 PM |
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Bug instead of beetle  
Now is that opening a can of worms?
Just doing a crossword...why isn't impolite, unpolite? Where does the 'im' come from? Latin I guess? If you are uncivil why can't you be unpolite
You can be unhappy, uncooperative, unlearned, unwilling etc etc, never 'imhappy'
I did get the crossword done...but it does makes you wonder sometimes
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| posted on December 21st, 2008 at 01:27 PM |
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The their, there and they're one frustrates me as well as the "must of / should of" mixups.
Tollway instead of freeway. A freeway is a road free of intersections. some require tolls to be paid when used.
There is no such thing as a road that is free to drive on. Car cost, fuel, rego, licence, maintenance; all of these things cost money.
So where is the "free" in all that?
The biggest on my list is "to be perfectly honest" because unless I stipulate that; I am being less than perfectly honest.
Which is not honest is it?
This is an intersting thread and hopefully we can learn a few things from it. After alll we are all participating in a written form of communication
so we might as well get the grammar and spelling as good as we can eh?
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| posted on December 21st, 2008 at 03:46 PM |
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must of / should of" mixups.
Should be "must have / should have"
Car costs are just that, most of those costs would still be there regardless of wheather you are driving on a public road, a private road or across an
unmade surface be it privatly owned land or publicly owned land, of course rego (sorry, registration) and a licence to drive a vehicle on public land
and or roads would not always be required, therefor it is a toll road if you have to pay a special toll to use that particular road, but as our taxes
already go towards paying for the upkeep of all (other?)roads, does that make them all toll roads?. Cripes, you sure have to be carefull posting an
opinion in this thread.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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| posted on December 21st, 2008 at 07:44 PM |
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a few from ebay that i see alot that are really pissing me off a Volkswagon beatle or bettle that also happens to be immaculant....
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| posted on December 21st, 2008 at 10:36 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by donn
must of / should of" mixups.
Should be "must have / should have"
Car costs are just that, most of those costs would still be there regardless of wheather you are driving on a public road, a private road or across an
unmade surface be it privatly owned land or publicly owned land, of course rego (sorry, registration) and a licence to drive a vehicle on public land
and or roads would not always be required, therefor it is a toll road if you have to pay a special toll to use that particular road, but as our taxes
already go towards paying for the upkeep of all (other?)roads, does that make them all toll roads?. Cripes, you sure have to be carefull posting an
opinion in this thread.
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I did put the must of and should of in inverted commers to show that I was quoting incorrect spelling.
If our taxes are paying for the roads then they still don't come "free" do they?
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| posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 04:48 AM |
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If our taxes are paying for the roads then they still don't come "free" do they?
but as our taxes already go towards paying for the upkeep of all (other?)roads, does that make them all toll roads?.
Correctamundo, as I saidyou sure have to be carefull posting an opinion in this thread.
and yeah, noticed that you were pointing out the incorrect word "of" so we agree on both points.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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| posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 08:31 AM |
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Have you noticed that we park on driveways, but drive on parkways?
English is a wonderful language. There's no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger and no pine, or apples, in pineapples. You sink slowly in quicksand.
A boxing ring is square, but the building called Australia Square in Sydney, is round. You have one tooth and several teeth, so why don't you have
one phone booth and several phone beeth? If the school teacher taught, why didn't the church preacher praught? If sunflower oil is made from
sunflowers, and olive oil is made from olives, what is baby oil made from? Why do actors recite words in a play, but musicians play at a recital?
People from Poland are called Poles, so why aren't people from Holland called Holes? Why are people who invest your money called brokers?
I think 'freeway' is free only in the sense that you don't pay a toll. The ones where you need an eTag (which I still haven't got) are invariably
called 'Motorways'. Although I am fairly sure that the freeway from Heathcote to Mt Ousley was still called a 'freeway' when it used to have
tollgates.
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| posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 06:27 PM |
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It shits me when my wife uses phrases like "Close/open the light". Damn feisty hot blooded Sicilian lover she is
Love her to bits but she does it to annoy me and it really works.
If you can't fix it with a hammer,
you have an electrical problem....
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| posted on December 23rd, 2008 at 04:41 AM |
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The light bit must be a wog thing, my lady uses that term too though she's not realy a wog, claims to be but I know she was made in Australia from
fully imported parts.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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| posted on December 23rd, 2008 at 07:33 PM |
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Spotted in a Sussex Inlet real estate catalog I saw a property that has a lot of good things going for it. To many too mention apparently,
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Notch Nut
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| posted on December 23rd, 2008 at 08:03 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by donn
The light bit must be a wog thing, my lady uses that term too though she's not realy a wog, claims to be but I know she was made in Australia from
fully imported parts.
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Too true
If you can't fix it with a hammer,
you have an electrical problem....
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| posted on December 23rd, 2008 at 08:18 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Notch Nut
It shits me when my wife uses phrases like "Close/open the light".
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In Fijian English you "on the light" or "off the light". And you definitely "arx" a question. I don't know why.
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Notch Nut
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| posted on December 24th, 2008 at 08:11 PM |
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More often than not, I'm a little off tap. Probably explains alot
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you have an electrical problem....
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| posted on January 2nd, 2009 at 06:43 PM |
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OK these ones get me
the difference between enquiry, query, inquiry? I use the words enquiry and query a lot and wonder if I have them arse about at times
Hmmm
Enquiry is if you need an answer to a question....inquiry means the same thing? Wanting information, asking a question
...is query the same , or is it more like questioning the answer or validity of information? Questioning the information?
You go up to an information desk to make an enquiry, where as you might go up to an teacher to query their marking of an assignment which you thought
was unfair? 
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| posted on January 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 AM |
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Wir sind aus Deutschland zurueckgekommen, und haben ein fernseher am Flueghafen zugegueckt.... (WHOOPS!!! SORRY!!!)
We returned to Australia from Germany (after living there for 7 years), and one of the first things I see at the airport is Richard F'ING Wilkins on
television interviewing Aussie Soldiers (via Satelleite naturally - they were peacekeeping on East Timor, although perhaps that should be "piece
keeping" given the machete action that followed)(poor taste - it's a gift!)
So this soldier screams to his family "I love yous", and I think - yeah - I'm home again. I just assumed that Australian education may have tackled
that paltry issue of "you" being plural as well as singular by now..?
My, my, my... Maybe Kevin Rudd should've used some of that stimulus package for edjumakashun???
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| posted on January 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 AM |
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"Yous" is one of the greatest contributions to the English language ever made by Australians, comparable in its utility to the refrigerator (also an
Australian invention). Whereas all Latin languages and many others have a clear indication of the number when directly addressing third parties, in
English you can say (or even yous can say) "You are fat, dumb and ugly" and it isn't clear whether you're complimenting just one of the girls at
the bar or all of them.
The Americans made a weak attempt with "You all" or "Y'all", but it pales into obliquity when compared to the robust "Yous". "Yous" also has
the advantage of esy incorporation into various farming jokes ("I love yous all" as the farmer said to his flock) and a famous sponsor ("I love
yous all" as Jeff Fennick said to his flock).
Thank yous for you attention.
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| posted on January 3rd, 2009 at 09:05 PM |
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Pedagogy
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