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Former FT in China - 2016-07-27

In response to Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools (the_Queens_English)

Re Paul Fox,

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this post by an Aussie making fun of South African English....

I mean really ... that is the pot calling the kettle black or as the Spaniards say, the raven is making fun of the crow.

I mean, after all folks, Aussie English is Cockney prisoner English from the dregs of British society who were deported to Botany Bay in the 17th century. It is hardly, truly hardly, of an august lineage.

I cringe when I hear Aussie English, just cringe. At least a proper well-educated (white) South African is able to speak something more akin to the Queen's English that your average Aussie with all of his or her's totally mutated vowels and jingoistic vocabulary.

In the United States and Canada, TV programs from Australia, which are far and few between these days, generally need to carry subtitles because most Yanks and Canucks, a total of about 360 million people, just can't follow them.

Aussie English is not allowed at the United Nations. Official UN translators must carry either a RP or RRP or a standard North American radio English, like the late Peter Jennings.

The Brits often break out laughing at Aussie English and it is the subject of endless jokes and mockeries -- endless. Raise the subject in a pub and just wait for hilarity to break out.

A friend from London told me that in proper (white-folk) South African English, the Capetown version, he could at least hear shades of empire. On the other hand, he told me that in Aussie English, he heard shades of English debtors' prisons from the 17th century.

And again, South African TV programs in North America pass without subtitles.

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, etc., etc. What a national anthem!

Actually, Australia is one of the five English speaking countries from which China, in its wisdom, chooses to draw its FTs from. That's objective, and the situation ON THE GROUND HERE. SA ain't one of them. So, put that piece of objectivity in your pipe and smoke it! Splutter, splutter, LOL!

Get on yer bike, mate, and vanish into the horizon! Don't bother coming back, you plonker. :

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Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- Neil -- 2016-07-26

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- amused -- 2016-07-26

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- the_Queens_English -- 2016-07-27

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- Odd Bob Job -- 2016-07-27

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- paul fox -- 2016-07-26

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- the_Queens_English -- 2016-07-27

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- paul fox -- 2016-07-27

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- Former FT in China -- 2016-07-27

Re Good Shanghai Language Mills/Schools -- paul fox -- 2016-07-27