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Re: Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:21:58 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
> Last time we mentioned we were about to overtake another country in .loc
> postings we spurred the Italians to greater verbosity. Now it's the Pommys'
> turn. Last I checked we're some 230 posts (2 to 4 weeks of posts) behind.
> With a South Eastern fest coming up and inevitable
> end-of-year-clearance-sales with (fingers crossed up to 50%?!?) off perhaps
> we can cement the claim as "most noisy nation". Of course we could always
> give another cultural clothing lecture or tease the Americans about
> S@H/vegiemite/blue tubs etc. Anyway I'm just posting 'cause it's past my
> bedtime and I noticed we were gaining on the .uk group.
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> James (who wants lots of replies to boost the post-count)
We COULD always start up the question about lugnet being too polite, along
with a side-order of whether this being an Aussie forum (?) we should be
able to use Strine [1] or whether we should use 'Seppo' language.
[1] Strine is the name given to the Australian form of the english language.
It is very similar to the Queens english [though a certain American software
company likes to think we are the 51st state of that country and provides an
Australian language set with its software that matches this idea.] though
with some very obvious [and irreverant] differences...after all, we WERE a
convict settlement originally.
Benjamin Whytcross
[providing plenty of conversation ideas which could assist us in our
postings :) (and possibly get me in further trouble for using the Strine 'S'
word...)]
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| Last time we mentioned we were about to overtake another country in .loc postings we spurred the Italians to greater verbosity. Now it's the Pommys' turn. Last I checked we're some 230 posts (2 to 4 weeks of posts) behind. With a South Eastern fest (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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