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Why the feck do they need 3 ambulances and a helicopter!
Meanwhile down the road somebody's Nan has broken her hip and has been laying in agony for 5 hours as she is too scared to call as she doesn't have ambulance cover!
Reminds me. I was schooled that Aborigine was a noun and Aboriginal was the adjective by my linguistics prof this year. He is a prescriptive linguist, mind you, and believes that language is static and can't evolve, so I wouldn't reach too much into it.It hasn't always been incorrect terminology. Back in the 70s, we were schooled on using the term Aborigine (person) instead of Aboriginal (object) as the most appropriate and acceptable term.
I'm always having to catch myself on this. The learnings of those early years can be so deeply imbedded that they're hard to break.
Reminds me. I was schooled that Aborigine was a noun and Aboriginal was the adjective by my linguistics prof this year. He is a prescriptive linguist, mind you, and believes that language is static and can't evolve, so I wouldn't reach too much into it.
I prefer a cunning linguist...... He is a prescriptive linguist ......
..... believes that language is static and can't evolve ........
Reminds me. I was schooled that Aborigine was a noun and Aboriginal was the adjective by my linguistics prof this year. He is a prescriptive linguist, mind you, and believes that language is static and can't evolve, so I wouldn't reach too much into it.
Poorly worded on my part. Rather than language "can't" evolve, it "shouldn't" evolve. Still, that line of linguistics doesn't make much sense. I mean, it's basically a scholarly grammar Nazi.Good god, I didn't know there was such a belief.
Did you do linguistics just to be a nob online?Poorly worded on my part. Rather than language "can't" evolve, it "shouldn't" evolve. Still, that line of linguistics doesn't make much sense. I mean, it's basically a scholarly grammar Nazi.
Also, you know the people who argue that you shouldn't use 'literally' in the figurative sense and it should literally mean literally? That's prescriptivism, too.
Poorly worded on my part. Rather than language "can't" evolve, it "shouldn't" evolve. Still, that line of linguistics doesn't make much sense. I mean, it's basically a scholarly grammar Nazi.
Also, you know the people who argue that you shouldn't use 'literally' in the figurative sense and it should literally mean literally? That's prescriptivism, too.
No, I study tourism and linguistics because it's an area of study that has always interested me. The linguistics side of my study goes well with the tourism side of it, as I would like to spend my life travelling the globe. I want to travel to all sorts of places. Hot places, cold places, exhilarating places and other places. I want to immerse myself in new cultures. I want to eat new food. I want to speak new languages with new people that I've met and educate them on why they are bastardising their own mother tongue.Did you do linguistics just to be a nob online?
I'm just kind of glad I could trot out the Christiano Ronaldo Castrol Edge ad.That sounds so un-South Australian.
Too obscure for me, fyi it's Cristiano you dumb *.I'm just kind of glad I could trot out the Christiano Ronaldo Castrol Edge ad.
Don't tell me how to speak my own language you ******* prescriptivist! Language is constantly changing and evolvingToo obscure for me, fyi it's Cristiano you dumb ****.
,someones fighting for his life and you come up with this rubbish.
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Someone is always fighting for their lives, unfortunately not all are cricket players.
If it's rubbish to think 3 ambulances and a helicopter for one guy on an open field is excessive then yup I'm rubbish.
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Someone is always fighting for their lives, unfortunately not all are cricket players.
If it's rubbish to think 3 ambulances and a helicopter for one guy on an open field is excessive then yup I'm rubbish.
Guys are dying everywhere, many don't get an ambulance on time. I'm glad you haven't had that happen to anyone you know.Why are you even talking about this? Who even goes "s**t a guy is dying, LOL LOOK AT THE AMBOS AND STUFF, ISN'T THAT EXCESSIVE?"
Guys are dying everywhere, many don't get an ambulance on time. I'm glad you haven't had that happen to anyone you know.
I'm pretty sure Hospitals have more than 3 ambulances you twit. I'm also sure the doctors assessed his condition and called for the appropriate medical help.Guys are dying everywhere, many don't get an ambulance on time. I'm glad you haven't had that happen to anyone you know.