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What I like about it is if you are actually educated and can write without too many typos and not write like you actually sound, you are normally fully understandable as are the Aussies down under.
It's the local slang that outsiders have a hard time understanding.
And I suspect it's true no matter which side of the pond you live on.
I'm even having difficulty with the slang spoken by the younger generation in my own country. Much of it originating in the inner cities
of the east coast ostensibly the black neighborhoods, who couldn't care less how they butcher the English language. And it is passed on by the entertainment and music industries.
My point after rambling on, is we can talk easier with the written word than we probably wouldn't be able to face to face!
A pet peeve of mine is the words being used out of context, and also lazy people not spelling properly often leaving the words incomplete.
Spell check and grammar check are great tools and many apparently ignore them or don't even use them, if they even have them.
It makes them sound juvenile and uneducated.
End of rant,
Gabby
It's the local slang that outsiders have a hard time understanding.
And I suspect it's true no matter which side of the pond you live on.
I'm even having difficulty with the slang spoken by the younger generation in my own country. Much of it originating in the inner cities
of the east coast ostensibly the black neighborhoods, who couldn't care less how they butcher the English language. And it is passed on by the entertainment and music industries.
My point after rambling on, is we can talk easier with the written word than we probably wouldn't be able to face to face!
A pet peeve of mine is the words being used out of context, and also lazy people not spelling properly often leaving the words incomplete.
Spell check and grammar check are great tools and many apparently ignore them or don't even use them, if they even have them.
It makes them sound juvenile and uneducated.
End of rant,
Gabby