Help the bloody immigrants to speak like an aussie lol

italiandragon · #1 15-03-10, 08:41 PM

Here I want to start my self-bashing thread on learning the aussie English, please bash each of my typo

Let`s start:

center or centre?

soj · #2 15-03-10, 09:17 PM

centre, unless your coding css then center is all that will work

Jonathan · #3 15-03-10, 09:31 PM

Since you've given us the all clear, one of things that kinda annoys me about your posts (I'm a Grammar Nazi) is that you use

This thing: `

When you should be using

This thing: '

So instead of: Let`s start

Say: Let's start

I dont even know what ` is supposed to be used for - when I become dictator of Earth I will pass a law that has the ` key removed from all keyboards.

P.S: I would kill to be as good at Italian as you are at English.

johno69 · #4 15-03-10, 10:15 PM

Spaces before comma's annoy the shitter out of me. As per my sig.

Also when people mess up then and than.

Then is used when referring to time. So many on other forums I use say things like.. "I'd rather blue then red" when referring to which ONE of the two they prefer. Which is incorrect.

awesome thread btw.

italiandragon · #5 15-03-10, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johno69

Spaces before comma's annoy the shitter out of me. As per my sig.

Also when people mess up then and than.

Then is used when referring to time. So many on other forums I use say things like.. "I'd rather blue then red" when referring to which ONE of the two they prefer. Which is incorrect.

awesome thread btw.

awesome!!!

This is exactly what I needed!

I usually add a space because I hate squashed text

and I do it in Word docs too so I get always a green line.

Regarding the ` instead of ' I guess I got used to the Italian way, so great in English, not just Aussies (or aussies?) you use ' ?

by the way do you know that in Italy to write 1 thousand we write:

1.000 while here and in the US you use the comma (1,000) , so comma and dot have inverse use! (but I knew that)...

Keep going, the more you bash my grammar the faster I learn!

Cheers

italiandragon · #6 15-03-10, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soj

centre, unless your coding css then center is all that will work

Thank you, but is writing "center" an error in Australia?

Like say..."business center"?

the plural is available...(watch it...3...2...1...)

OMG obviously has BusinessCentres.com.au

italiandragon · #7 15-03-10, 11:59 PM

looks like a popular typo...

montecristo · #8 16-03-10, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johno69

Also when people mess up then and than.

Then is used when referring to time. So many on other forums I use say things like.. "I'd rather blue then red" when referring to which ONE of the two they prefer. Which is incorrect.

Absolutely. Annoys the hell out of me.
Almost as much as your instead of you're when stating "you are".
It's hardly rocket science.

IDragon in regards to 'aussies", it's always Aussies with a cap when referring to a name or nation name for example American, not american when referring to a person. If it's not referring to a person, there is no need. There's Englishman, and english language.

The ` can be used to emphasise an "A" sounding english "E" most notably in French and Spanish words for example cliche` and ole` but in the english language it is perfectly acceptable to disregard it.

marketingweb · #9 16-03-10, 09:39 AM

Hi Italian,
You are doing very well, but still have a little way to go before being mistaken for an Aussie!

On another thread you posted this:

Quote:

I was not complaining about your service, I was answering to a question, you already explained me this. Unfortunately I did not know there was a backorder option till the last day.

Which I would write like this:
I was not complaining about your service, I was just answering a question. You had already explained this to me. Unfortunately I did not know there was a backorder option until it was too late.

Again English is unfortunately a language with a lot of subtlety. The bits that aren't completely correct are:
You can give the answer to a question
or you can answer a question
but you can't answer to a question.
Answering to someone or something is like saying that they are in charge of you and you will be in trouble- ie "I will have to answer to my parents if I get caught doing that".
I know that probably sounds silly, but it's just the way it is.

Second one is we would say "you had already explained this" or "you had already explained this to me", but not "you had already explained me this"

If you use all these types of sentence structures everyone will understand perfectly what you mean most of the time, so it's not a problem for most general communication. The only problem is that if it's your goal is to to sound like a native English speaker there are a lot of subtle things to get right, which can take years to master i'm told.

Best of luck with it all.

italiandragon · #10 16-03-10, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marketingweb

Hi Italian,
You are doing very well, but still have a little way to go before being mistaken for an Aussie!

On another thread you posted this:

Which I would write like this:
I was not complaining about your service, I was just answering a question. You had already explained this to me. Unfortunately I did not know there was a backorder option until it was too late.

Again English is unfortunately a language with a lot of subtlety. The bits that aren't completely correct are:
You can give the answer to a question
or you can answer a question
but you can't answer to a question.
Answering to someone or something is like saying that they are in charge of you and you will be in trouble- ie "I will have to answer to my parents if I get caught doing that".
I know that probably sounds silly, but it's just the way it is.

Second one is we would say "you had already explained this" or "you had already explained this to me", but not "you had already explained me this"

If you use all these types of sentence structures everyone will understand perfectly what you mean most of the time, so it's not a problem for most general communication. The only problem is that if it's your goal is to to sound like a native English speaker there are a lot of subtle things to get right, which can take years to master i'm told.

Best of luck with it all.

EXCELLENT! Thank you! The reason why I am doing that kind of errors is because I base the translation from Italian obviously.

I have lots to learn. (or a lot to learn?)

But I did read the other day that "until" is considered less formal then "till".

And how about:

breakkie
doggie
kittie
Tassie
Postie
Wollies

Is that correct English?

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