Education & Reference Why Americanizations Are Correct

[Cruyff14]

NO

Too late, you already did.

 

[Plugger35]

s**t video. Although I laughed at the guy who did the accent, said "Oops no that sounds like Austin Powers, let me try again" and proceeded to do the exact same accent.

I lot of Americans thought I was English when I was there as they expect Australians to all sound like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Too late, you already did.

Too late, you already did.

There is much care actually.

Btw....

It's a game of inches, not centimeters
Miles works better than kilometers in songs etc
Everyone still goes by imperial measurement like "he's 6 foot tall"
There are a lot of famous/meaningful concepts......american dream, american witch, american made, etc.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

 

[Stratton_Gun]

I lot of Americans thought I was English when I was there as they expect Australians to all sound like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin.

Did you at least throw a couple of shrimp on the barbie?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

There is much care actually.

Btw....

It's a game of inches, not centimeters
Miles works better than kilometers in songs etc
Everyone still goes by imperial measurement like "he's 6 foot tall"
There are a lot of famous/meaningful concepts......american dream, american witch, american made, etc.

American witch???

WTF is that supposed to mean?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I see the lights of Hay
Shouldn't be more than 40 k's
My tank's on empty but I don't slow down
Whatever goes wrong goes wrong anyhow

 

[Exe Gesis]

I see the lights of Hay
Shouldn't be more than 40 k's
My tank's on empty but I don't slow down
Whatever goes wrong goes wrong anyhow

Lame. Had to abbreviate it to a single letter to make it work.

 

[BALKAN]

American witch???

WTF is that supposed to mean?

Ann Coulter

 

[Exe Gesis]

American witch???

WTF is that supposed to mean?

American Gothic
American Woman
American Prayer

etc

 

[Exe Gesis]

Is there even an Australian cartoon???

 

[Illinois Nazi]

American Gothic
American Woman
American Prayer

etc

That's not making it any clearer. It just looks like you are picking random words and sticking "American" in front of them.

 

[Gough]

American Gothic
American Woman
American Prayer

etc

Cosmic American Music.

 

[Exe Gesis]

That's not making it any clearer. It just looks like you are picking random words and sticking "American" in front of them.

Exactly the point!
They don't do that with "Australian" because there's very little cultural depth and breadth.
The only one I can think of is Australian Crawl.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Exactly the point!
They don't do that with "Australian" because there's very little cultural depth and breadth.
The only one I can think of is Australian Crawl.

Who?

Sorry, I know this thread was never anything deep and meaningful, but you've completely lost me now.

 

[Cruyff14]

Exactly the point!
They don't do that with "Australian" because there's very little cultural depth and breadth.
The only one I can think of is Australian Crawl.

Advance Australia Fair
I Still Call Australia Home
I Am Australian
Australia

And here you go, amazing what you can find when you actually looking at things objectively.

http://australiabysong.com.au/australia/

 

[Exe Gesis]

Advance Australia Fair
I Still Call Australia Home
I Am Australian
Australia

And here you go, amazing what you can find when you actually looking at things objectively.

http://australiabysong.com.au/australia/

They're songs.

I'm referring more to terms, sayings, phrases, that have a cultural meaning.

The American Dream, for instance.

Who?

Sorry, I know this thread was never anything deep and meaningful, but you've completely lost me now.

'They' meaning people in general. Writers, etc.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

They're songs.

I'm referring more to terms, sayings, phrases, that have a cultural meaning.

The American Dream, for instance.




'They' meaning people in general. Writers, etc.

So, like the Australian Deam then.

And you still haven't told me when American Witch became a cultural phrase, nor all the other random words you just stuck "American" in front of.

 

[Exe Gesis]

So, like the Australian Deam then.

And you still haven't told me when American Witch became a cultural phrase, nor all the other random words you just stuck "American" in front of.

There's no "australian dream." Just an "american dream."

Forget "american witch" in the examples given, but there are many others.

 

[AtomicBlonde]

"The American Dream" is barely alive over there. I have travelled the US fairly extensively over two separate trips and you don't find many people still clutching to that as a goal in life. Much like our "lucky country" tag of years gone by.

 

[The Speaker]

I couldn't possibly imagine why a country of 300 million people, with the biggest economy and military in the world for the best part of a century, has had more cultural impact on the world than Australia.

 

[Exe Gesis]

I couldn't possibly imagine why a country of 300 million people, with the biggest economy and military in the world for the best part of a century, has had more cultural impact on the world than Australia.

So you're basically agreeing then, belatedly, that America and Americanizations are correct and the best and most influential.

 

[The Speaker]

So you're basically agreeing then, belatedly, that America and Americanizations are correct and the best and most influential.

Influential =/= correct.

The US has been engaging in cultural imperialism for years, which is interesting given their anti-imperial foundation.

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

FWIW I'm currently reading the Fatal Shore and I'm finding it very irritating that a book about Australia's history is using such American spelling. Even the u in words like neighbour have not been used. Terrible.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Forget "american witch" in the examples given, but there are many others.

OK, so there are many, apart from all the ones you just randomly made up.

Australian Sandwich
Australian Golf Club
Australian Toothbrush
Australian Potpourri
Australian Rice Cracker

This is easy!