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Nightingale or whatever your name is, you fell like a knowall to me. Too bad. Misprints should reasonably never be picked at.' California Times ' IS THE WORD. It exists. Maybe Nightingale lives at the back of no-return, Cape Town. Travis? Anthony?
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Haha, I guess so.
I probably come across as a "know-all" sometimes =p. Perhaps I'm insensitive to the psychological impacts of my words/actions, because I was picked on so much when I was younger that I was desensitised to it and began to do it myself too... Personally I'm pretty immune to "verbal attacks", and wrongly assume others to be the same.
So, Sorry!
(Oh, I live in Singapore, not Cape Town.)
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Besides, coming from Singapore, where parents, teachers, other adults, and even the government nitpicks at every single one of our mistakes...
We get used to it =p
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Who's fretting, Nightingale? I'm not.
I've never heard a nightingale sing as they don't get up as far north as Scotland when they migrate to southern Britain each summer.
Earlier this year I heard this story about a nightingale singing loudly and boldly from a thick bramble bush close to the main train station at Colchester, in Essex. Apparently they sing by day as well as through the night, and every morning all the commuters to London on the station platforms enjoyed the legendary warblings of this particular bird who was quite unfazed by all the bustle around him (it was a male bird as they are the ones who do the beautiful singing).
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"It was a male bird as they are the ones who do the beautiful singing."
I'm a girl and I can hardly sing for my life... so that works =p
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I'm back with a bang! Glad. Everytime I see myself backtracking, trying to make sure I'm being realistic in my views concerning which of the country on both sides of the pond speaks better English. There's definitely no answer to this since idiomatic English is based on an individual. Oh man! Some Americans have said and wirtiten cool things. So do the Brits. It's =.
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Hallo, you two nations!
I'm addressing the American and the British.Why don't you count us, the Australians as an English speaking population?We too, do speak English, really ;) I see everyplace the saying "British and American accent are really different".Hey look over here! Our AUS pronunciation is different too.And a British can hardly understand us, really.You dont get our phrasal verbs well.All the same for South Africa! Answer this, pls!
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It is true diversity is 'interest stayed'. Australians are native speakers and have an accent that should be recognised as beautiful. Their English is superb, admitting a lot of unusual beautiful phrases that even Americans are buying into of recent, like: I'm down on you; Good avo = Good afternoon. Man I love Aussie flows more, though.
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ROCK ON Aussie!!!!!
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Americans don't like Australian English very much. It sounds funny, with words like "crikey".
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Thanks Awols. I got really elated when heard your statement.By the way, Guest, what's your intent?Are you disparaging the Ausies!We are not that down-and-out as you look down on us!By the way, the Americans have fucked up the American English!The only true language belongs to Ausie and the Britain.
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You're not even Australian, and even if you were, Australian English sucks anyway. Americans like British English, but Australian English sounds laughable to them.
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Ha ha ha.That is like a platonic love.Americans like British English, because it's better than theirs!But British don't like American English.Have no doubt about whether I am Australian or not.Because that's true.
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Why don't you use articles correctly, then? I think your actual native languages probably doesn't have articles. Am I correct?
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"native languages"->"native language"
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