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--- Quote from: Mao on September 15, 2008, 04:10:30 pm ---The chief assessor of EL, Tim Rayner, came to speak to our class today (as his wife is our career's advisor!)
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LOL are you serious? I think that guy is my teacher. Did he have a distinct english accent?
AppleThief:
--- Quote from: DivideBy0 on September 15, 2008, 06:40:53 pm ---I think that guy is my teacher.
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Lol! After all this time, you think you know your teacher's name?
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--- Quote from: AppleThief on September 15, 2008, 06:42:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: DivideBy0 on September 15, 2008, 06:40:53 pm ---I think that guy is my teacher.
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Lol! After all this time, you think you know your teacher's name?
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Just making sure lol, there might be a few rayners out there
Mao:
yeah, it is :P
lucky bastard :P
cara.mel:
Fine I shall quote my collection of stuff I made myself
Note that I am quoting my own notes word for word (expect for additions in square brackets), you could go so far as to say there is an informal tone. :o
Aussie english in subsystems
Phonology
-HRT
-Assimilation - austraya, hambag
-Elesion - granstand, envirament, govment
- dropping final consonants eg d, t, g
- we sound nasaly (m, n, ng)
- dipthongs - loike, noice
- dont enunciate things eg ledder, poda gold (pot of)
- we talk in a monotone
- reductions/contractions
-non rhotic [no r at ends of things if I remember right, like sista]
- not many ls either
-speaking quick eg didja
Morphology/lexicon
-diminutives - add the morpheme -o/-ie -> friendliness, informal
- idiomatic speech (dont come the raw prawn with me)
Syntax
How sometimes sentences end with but
I am lazy I shall type up one page a day, I have about 8 :P
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