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cns1511

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Influences of American English on SAE
« on: January 31, 2009, 05:25:31 pm »
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Does anyone know any good sites (or have information already) on the influences of American English on Standard Australian English?

I have to write an essay on it for school, and can only find a few different points.

I need to identify which subsystems each influence belongs to and provide examples.

Any help would be great, thanks. :)

mypurpleundercracka

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Re: Influences of American English on SAE
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 05:34:10 pm »
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there's stuff on Australian English on Wikipedia, talks about "Americanization"

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Re: Influences of American English on SAE
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 08:36:18 pm »
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I always spell 'Americanization' with the 'z', even though I don't use the 'z' for 'globalisation' and so on. It seems appropriate.

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Re: Influences of American English on SAE
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2009, 08:39:35 pm »
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I always spell 'Americanization' with the 'z', even though I don't use the 'z' for 'globalisation' and so on. It seems appropriate.

:P Yeah, I have the 'ize' vs 'ise' point. Thanks for the example :D

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Re: Influences of American English on SAE
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2009, 09:50:16 pm »
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I always spell 'Americanization' with the 'z', even though I don't use the 'z' for 'globalisation' and so on. It seems appropriate.

:P Yeah, I have the 'ize' vs 'ise' point. Thanks for the example :D

Yeah, and bloody microsoft used to have the default language for Microsoft spellcheck as U.S. English. Don't know if it's still like that, my Microsoft Word is horribly outdated :P

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Re: Influences of American English on SAE
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2009, 08:17:02 pm »
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The 'different' spellcheck Englishes are non-existent; they all conform to 'American' English.

A point you can bring up is that SAE is strongly resistant to USA English; the Broad/General/Cultivated Australian accents still exist and changes with them remain largely self-driven, rather than being hugely affected by the outside world. 

When is/was the essay due? =p
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Re: Influences of American English on SAE
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2009, 11:45:44 pm »
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It was due on 2nd February. I still haven't done it, but my teacher doesn't seem to care. The information is helpful though. Thanks :)