outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Monday, September 25, 2006

It had to happen sooner or later

I watch Fox news at 4.30. It might be a conservative channel but I am open minded. They use vocabulary like top of the hour and bottom of the hour to mean the o'clock and the half past. Like all good aussies, it had to creep into our vocabulary. I heard a bloke on the breakfast programme today before the eight o'clock news tell me that the top of the hour news would be on after the break. Fair dinkum. Why have we always got to copy other people. As if anytime soon, gimme a break, get a life, loser, wuss, were not enough. What is wrong with our Australian language? These are the very same people who tell you how proud they are to be aussies and then in the next breath they go using the language and idioms of another culture. How unAustralian is that.

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