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18 Mar 2005 12:36:56 AM |
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Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
Natalie wrote:
Diaper?
Forget the state of the two guys restaurant, WTF is Bella using that
word?
Natalie
What word do *U* use then, Natalie ?!?!??!
HOOROO ;-)
uncle wally ;-)
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
19 Mar 2005 06:47:44 AM |
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"La Bocca Della Verità - Déjà Vu Le Prophéte"
<yessireeyesindeedydo@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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Natalie wrote:
Diaper?
Forget the state of the two guys restaurant, WTF is Bella using that
word?
Natalie
What word do *U* use then, Natalie ?!?!??!
It's a fucking NAPPY of course! Don't be a *****!
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| User: "The CO" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
18 Mar 2005 07:34:47 PM |
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La Bocca Della Verità - Déjà Vu Le Prophéte wrote:
Natalie wrote:
Diaper?
Forget the state of the two guys restaurant, WTF is Bella using that
word?
Natalie
What word do *U* use then, Natalie ?!?!??!
LOL, has a point though. Aussies don't use the word 'diaper', the usual
term is 'nappy', though 'disposable' is getting more common as they are
the most popular form these days. 'Diaper/Nappy Service' is not very
common here either, so people that use cloth nappies generally have to
wash/sanitise them themselves. This makes disposables irresistably
attractive to most people given the amount of washing and soaking that
cleaning cloth nappies properly requires.
The CO
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| User: "Who_tat_me" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
18 Mar 2005 07:54:19 PM |
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"The CO" <the_xo@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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La Bocca Della Verità - Déjà Vu Le Prophéte wrote:
Natalie wrote:
Diaper?
Forget the state of the two guys restaurant, WTF is Bella using that
word?
Natalie
What word do *U* use then, Natalie ?!?!??!
LOL, has a point though. Aussies don't use the word 'diaper', the usual
term is 'nappy', though 'disposable' is getting more common as they are
the most popular form these days. 'Diaper/Nappy Service' is not very
common here either, so people that use cloth nappies generally have to
wash/sanitise them themselves. This makes disposables irresistably
attractive to most people
"most people"? Try "lazy pricks".
given the amount of washing and soaking that
cleaning cloth nappies properly requires.
The CO
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| User: "=?iso-8859-1?B?nJ2fqaqxx7a3uLmZ?=" |
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18 Mar 2005 07:59:44 PM |
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& they are frickin' well destructive to our fragile environment !!!
Bloody Humans !!!
HOOROO ;-)
uNCLE wALLY ;-)
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| User: "dude" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
19 Mar 2005 12:32:21 AM |
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: so people that use cloth nappies generally have to wash/sanitise them
themselves.
Dunno where you are, but Nappy Washing services are very easy to find in
Australia.
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| User: "The CO" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
19 Mar 2005 06:41:19 PM |
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dude wrote:
: so people that use cloth nappies generally have to wash/sanitise them
themselves.
Dunno where you are, but Nappy Washing services are very easy to find in
Australia.
Perhaps in capital cities.
There isn't one here.
The CO
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| User: "Ms LeeBee" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
19 Mar 2005 08:55:45 PM |
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The CO wrote:
dude wrote:
so people that use cloth nappies generally have to wash/sanitise
them themselves.
Dunno where you are, but Nappy Washing services are very easy to
find in Australia.
Perhaps in capital cities.
There isn't one here.
Homer: Well, kids, there it is! Capital City!
Marge: Look, the Cross-Town Bridge!
(begin vamp)
Bart: Wow!
Homer: Wow.
Tony Bennett: There's a swingin' town I know called... Capital
City.
Lisa: The Penny Loafer!
Tony: People stop and scream hello in... Capital City.
Homer: Kids, look! Street crime!
Tony: It's the kind of place that makes a bum feel like
a king.
Homer: Wow, that's service!
Tony: And it makes a king feel like some nutty, cuckoo,
super-king.
Marge: Look, it's Tony Bennett!
Tony: Hey, good to see you.
It's against the law to frown in... Capital City.
You'll caper like a stupid clown when you chance
to see...
Marge: Fourth Street and 'D'!
Tony: Fourth Street and 'D'! Yeah!
Once you get a whiff of it, you'll never want to
roam.
Homer: The Duff brewery!
Tony: Capital City, my home sweet, yeah!
Capital City, that happy-tal city,
It's Capital City,
my home sweet swingin' home!
All: Capital City! Yeah!
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| User: "The CO" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
20 Mar 2005 02:27:07 AM |
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Ms LeeBee wrote:
The CO wrote:
dude wrote:
so people that use cloth nappies generally have to wash/sanitise
them themselves.
Dunno where you are, but Nappy Washing services are very easy to
find in Australia.
Perhaps in capital cities.
There isn't one here.
Homer: Well, kids, there it is! Capital City!
<simpsonectomy>
I live in a regional city with a population of about 15,000 about 140
road miles from the state capital. There are some slightly larger
regional cities an hour to an hour and a halfs drive from here. AFAIK
there are no such services there either. Not sure about the state
capital, I've never lived there.
The CO
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| User: "dude" |
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21 Mar 2005 12:52:32 AM |
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: I live in a regional city with a population of about 15,000 about 140
: road miles from the state capital. There are some slightly larger
: regional cities an hour to an hour and a halfs drive from here. AFAIK
: there are no such services there either. Not sure about the state
: capital, I've never lived there.
My sister lived in Benalla, then Wangaratta (both Vic) during her 'nappy era',
she had access to a nappy service to launder cloth nappies.
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| User: "The CO" |
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24 Mar 2005 07:46:38 AM |
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dude wrote:
My sister lived in Benalla, then Wangaratta (both Vic) during her 'nappy era',
she had access to a nappy service to launder cloth nappies.
Lucky girl, we sure didn't.
The CO
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| User: "Su Zanadu" |
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24 Mar 2005 11:43:23 PM |
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The CO wrote:
dude wrote:
My sister lived in Benalla, then
Wangaratta (both Vic) during her
'nappy era', she had access to a nappy
service to launder cloth nappies.
Lucky girl, we sure didn't.
When my son was born my mom came for a visit and she brought about 50
cloth nappies/diapers...expecting me to use them!
Well....so we did use them, as diapers/nappies while she visited and
then we waxed the car and dusted with them after she left. :)
SuZanne
The CO
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| User: "Nova Carta" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
24 Mar 2005 03:37:51 PM |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:16:38 +1030, The CO <the_xo@yahoo.com.au>
wrote:
dude wrote:
My sister lived in Benalla, then Wangaratta (both Vic) during her 'nappy era',
she had access to a nappy service to launder cloth nappies.
Lucky girl, we sure didn't.
The CO
When my daughter was a baby we lived in Charleville, (S.E. Qld). The
bore water there was better than napisan. The nappies came out as
white as snow. There were no nappy services back then in rural towns.
Even in the cities a nappy service was something only rich people
would have used. So they weren't exactly prolific. Everyone used to
rinse the nappies and then soak them in napisan or a similar product
for 24 hours and then wash them in the washing machine. Worked like a
charm every time. Probably still does. When disposble nappies first
came out we avoided them like the plague. How times have changed.
Nova
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| User: "=?iso-8859-1?B?nJ2fqaqxx7a3uLmZ?=" |
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18 Mar 2005 07:54:42 PM |
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Not only are there quite a few word differences between Aussie English
& American English
ie: Flashlight, Gasoline, Elevator, Shopping Cart, Parking Lot, Zip
Code, etc, etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam (I have a collection of over
250 common word differences) there are also quite a few spelling
differences of commonly used words.....here is a good website
containing such differences.....
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm
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| User: "=?iso-8859-1?B?nJ2fqaqxx7a3uLmZ?=" |
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18 Mar 2005 07:58:02 PM |
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I should also point out that *most* Americans do not know what a
'serviette' is....
This lead to quite some confused looks when I asked for them in Hawaiin
restaurants & cafes !
They refer to them as 'Napkins' or 'Table Napkins' !
HOOROO ;-0
UNCLE WALLY
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| User: "John Constantine" |
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19 Mar 2005 03:48:32 PM |
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œŸ©ª±Ç¶·¸¹™ wrote:
Not only are there quite a few word differences between Aussie English
& American English
ie: Flashlight, Gasoline, Elevator, Shopping Cart, Parking Lot, Zip Code, etc, etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam (I have a collection of over 250 common word differences) there are also quite a few spelling differences of commonly used words.....here is a good website containing such differences.....
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm
I also heard that the spelling differences between UK and US English
(check - cheque, color - colour) came about because check and color were
the original English spellings, but some king in England in the 1400s
was a bit of a Francophile and changed the spelling to make the words
look more French. So in actual fact the way the "damn Yanks" spell words
is closer to the original way than the way we spell them.
So I heard.
There are one or two pedants in aus.tv, so no doubt I shall by
metaphorically leapt upon with corrections or opinions both sane and
totally nuts. :)
Cheers,
JC
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| User: "lora Norda" |
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19 Mar 2005 04:52:09 PM |
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I also heard that the spelling differences between UK and US English
(check - cheque, color - colour) came about because check and color
were the original English spellings, but some king in England in the
1400s was a bit of a Francophile and changed the spelling to make the
words look more French. So in actual fact the way the "damn Yanks"
spell words is closer to the original way than the way we spell them.
Also when Webster was putting together the first US dictionary he
decided to change the spelling to make it easier for the dullards
that ended up there. And they are still dumbing everything down for the
locals.
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| User: "Unknown" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
20 Mar 2005 03:39:45 AM |
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"lora Norda" <someone@home.net> wrote in message
news:Xns961F63BBC3EDFsomeonehomenet@203.59.27.131...
I also heard that the spelling differences between UK and US English
(check - cheque, color - colour) came about because check and color
were the original English spellings, but some king in England in the
1400s was a bit of a Francophile and changed the spelling to make the
words look more French. So in actual fact the way the "damn Yanks"
spell words is closer to the original way than the way we spell them.
Also when Webster was putting together the first US dictionary he
decided to change the spelling to make it easier for the dullards
that ended up there. And they are still dumbing everything down for the
locals.
.....yeah, by using terms like "dumbing down". :)
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| User: "lora Norda" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
20 Mar 2005 04:54:51 AM |
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"Unknown" <something@aoundabout.somewhere> wrote in news:Bxb%d.655
$M17.17789@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au:
"lora Norda" <someone@home.net> wrote in message
news:Xns961F63BBC3EDFsomeonehomenet@203.59.27.131...
I also heard that the spelling differences between UK and US English
(check - cheque, color - colour) came about because check and color
were the original English spellings, but some king in England in the
1400s was a bit of a Francophile and changed the spelling to make the
words look more French. So in actual fact the way the "damn Yanks"
spell words is closer to the original way than the way we spell them.
Also when Webster was putting together the first US dictionary he
decided to change the spelling to make it easier for the dullards
that ended up there. And they are still dumbing everything down for the
locals.
....yeah, by using terms like "dumbing down". :)
Keeping it to a level you'll understand
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| User: "Unknown" |
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20 Mar 2005 06:14:25 AM |
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"lora Norda" <someone@home.net> wrote in message
news:Xns961FDE438E4ABsomeonehomenet@203.59.27.131...
"Unknown" <something@aoundabout.somewhere> wrote in news:Bxb%d.655
$M17.17789@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au:
"lora Norda" <someone@home.net> wrote in message
news:Xns961F63BBC3EDFsomeonehomenet@203.59.27.131...
I also heard that the spelling differences between UK and US English
(check - cheque, color - colour) came about because check and color
were the original English spellings, but some king in England in the
1400s was a bit of a Francophile and changed the spelling to make the
words look more French. So in actual fact the way the "damn Yanks"
spell words is closer to the original way than the way we spell them.
Also when Webster was putting together the first US dictionary he
decided to change the spelling to make it easier for the dullards
that ended up there. And they are still dumbing everything down for the
locals.
....yeah, by using terms like "dumbing down". :)
Keeping it to a level you'll understand
You'll need to improve a heck of a lot to get that dumb!
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| User: "John Constantine" |
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19 Mar 2005 03:48:47 PM |
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œŸ©ª±Ç¶·¸¹™ wrote:
Not only are there quite a few word differences between Aussie English
& American English
ie: Flashlight, Gasoline, Elevator, Shopping Cart, Parking Lot, Zip Code, etc, etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam (I have a collection of over 250 common word differences) there are also quite a few spelling differences of commonly used words.....here is a good website containing such differences.....
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm
I also heard that the spelling differences between UK and US English
(check - cheque, color - colour) came about because check and color were
the original English spellings, but some king in England in the 1400s
was a bit of a Francophile and changed the spelling to make the words
look more French. So in actual fact the way the "damn Yanks" spell words
is closer to the original way than the way we spell them.
So I heard.
There are one or two pedants in aus.tv, so no doubt I shall by
metaphorically leapt upon with corrections or opinions both sane and
totally nuts. :)
Cheers,
JC
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Since when do Australians use the word... |
19 Mar 2005 04:20:49 PM |
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Perhaps the legacy of 1066, is not on your mind, you see the Franco
king William, took Britain, and with it the conquest, so they suplanted
their language on the poms, that is why many "English" words are of
French origin, they morphed and twisted but language is dynamic,
M Braggs, adventure in English covers this millennial spanning story
rather well, like did you know bulldozer, an American word, was
originally used for the slave master, giving a heavy dose of the lash?
LB
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| User: "Chasing Kate" |
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18 Mar 2005 11:58:12 PM |
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The CO wrote:
La Bocca Della Verità - Déjà Vu Le Prophéte wrote:
Natalie wrote:
Diaper?
Forget the state of the two guys restaurant, WTF is Bella using that
word?
Natalie
What word do *U* use then, Natalie ?!?!??!
LOL, has a point though. Aussies don't use the word 'diaper', the usual
term is 'nappy', though 'disposable' is getting more common as they are
the most popular form these days. 'Diaper/Nappy Service' is not very
common here either, so people that use cloth nappies generally have to
wash/sanitise them themselves. This makes disposables irresistably
attractive to most people given the amount of washing and soaking that
cleaning cloth nappies properly requires.
The CO
And adds mountains of non biodegradable trash to landfill
every year :(
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| User: "The CO" |
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19 Mar 2005 12:26:36 AM |
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Chasing Kate wrote:
And adds mountains of non biodegradable trash to landfill
every year :(
Which actually makes very little difference.
No, seriously.
Consider these.
What percentage of landmass is used for landfill?
What percentage of landfill waste is domestic in origin?
What impact does recycling have on landfill?
It varies a little from country to country, but the bottom line is that
it has no significant environmental impact.
The reality is that something like 90% of landfill waste is *industrial*
in origin, domestic waste is close to irrelevant.
Don't take my word for it, check it out.
Oh, and the detergents and oxidising/bleaching agents and wastewater
used to clean and sterilise soiled linen nappies are eventually drained
into the ocean and contribute to raised levels of phosphates and
nitrates in the area of the outfall point.
Oh, and you can now get disposables that are biodegradable....
The CO
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