Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

[Dave70]

Cry me a ******* river

Cant help you with a ******* river. How about a badly recorded boogie woogie river with an Englishman in it?

 

[Dave70]

Maybe we should be thankful and celebrate that Australia was colonised by the British, would be in a right state of affairs had it been either Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or French. Imagine trying to learn one of those languages, at least the English language is easy.

Or 'this ******* language'.

 

[warra48]

Dutch isn't that difficult if you are born and grow up there.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Maybe we should be thankful and celebrate that Australia was colonised by the British, would be in a right state of affairs had it been either Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or French. Imagine trying to learn one of those languages, at least the English language is easy.

Actually...English is the hardest language to learn.

He saw a saw that gave him a sore knee

Hey you there, over there, their not yours

 

[Pnutapper]

Actually...English is the hardest language to learn.

He saw a saw that gave him a sore knee

Hey you there, over there, they're not yours

FTFY

 

[Camo6]

Actually...English is the hardest language to learn.

He saw a saw that gave him a sore knee

Hey you there, over there, their not yours

Go help your uncle jack off that horse.

 

[good4whatAlesU]

English? Goodonya.

Ow-yis goin'
Whaddya think?
Beaudy
Rippa
Oh-yeah, na.

 

[malt junkie]

Dutch isn't that difficult if you are born and grow up there.

Yeah it's just the fear of being spat on every time they swear or ask for a biscuit!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

How to speak Australians ( The start is a bit colourfull ...almost **** )

 

[manticle]

If English is easy to learn, why are such a large proportion of native speakers so ********* at using it?

 

[good4whatAlesU]

define "native"

 

[Dave70]

define "native"

Oh, thats easy. Its the country where you were born. For example, I'm native to Australia. My ancestors were natives of Nordic and northern Europe.

 

[good4whatAlesU]

Oh, thats easy. Its the country where you were born. For example, I'm native to Australia. My ancestors were natives of Nordic and northern Europe.

A native Australian English speaker? Sounds good to me, I'll go along with that.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

define "native"

A native Englishman is a bit of French, Norse, German and with just a dash of Roman, (whatever they did for us)

 

[good4whatAlesU]

A potent mix.

Goodness knows what happened to the Irish though (edit: I jest, my wife's Irish. edit edit; Australian Irish).

 

[Dave70]

Boo!!
IOC and copyright. Fuggen un Australian.

 

[good4whatAlesU]

Hit the "watch on youTube" button at base of window.

 

[manticle]

Oh, thats easy. Its the country where you were born. For example, I'm native to Australia. My ancestors were natives of Nordic and northern Europe.

In this context, it refers to anyone whose native language is English.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Uncomfortable to some....but bloody funny

 

[good4whatAlesU]

In this context, it refers to anyone whose native language is English.

Hmm not sure. My DNA is Nordic and my people lived in Wales (spoke Welsh) and English for a few hundred years. I was born in NZ and grew up in Australia. The nation with highest proportion of my DNA is now Finland.

Should I speak some kind of pigeon Old Norse, Maori, Australian English, Wiradjuri, Welsh, Finnish?