Has anyone noticed with sites etc you are asked to choose your language, they have American English and English but nowhere does it say Australian English or simply Australian ?

The are some subtle differences between UK English, American English and Australian English and we do have Australian English Dictionaries to cater for the differences, isn't it about time they showed Australian English as an option  

Dougwe wrote:

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Wouldn't help wombat Vic cos he speaks wombat.

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Speaks or grunts ????

Are you saying he only speaks out of his rear end Brian?  Sounds more like trumpets to me, just don't stand in the firing line    

Your not watching the time in anticipation are you Dougwe?

Dougwe wrote:

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Now I can't honestly answer that today Vic cos I declared that I will be nice to wombat today. Midnight's not far away though.

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Doug's only being nice cause he's heading to WA in the not too distant future, scared Wombat might be waiting for him...   

Getting back to the subject, it is almost like Australia doesn't exist when they ask your language, no listing for Australia, only English and American English, about time they woke up and listed Australian too, Australian English would be fine in my book, better than no country listing at all.

Vic, it's a supply and demand situation. The Australian market isn't worth the effort to write the code to have "Australian English" as a choice. 

You can always revert to the fastest growing language in the world today - U no wat I meen.

The Phantom

The Phantom wrote:

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Vic, it's a supply and demand situation. The Australian market isn't worth the effort to write the code to have "Australian English" as a choice. 

You can always revert to the fastest growing language in the world today - U no wat I meen.

 

The Phantom

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English or the one with the squiggly lines   

The Phantom wrote:

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Text talk, like on the SMS

The Phantom

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Sorry mate, I should have twigged...... 

Vic41 wrote:

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The are some subtle differences between UK English, American English and Australian English...

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Can you give some examples of differences between the dictionary versions of UK and Australian English? Of course there are differences in slang, but what kinds of subtle differences would affect the operation of a web site?

The differences I am talking about Dorian are words that you only find in Australia. Some are slang, others not;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English 

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/british_australian_english.htm 

http://australianenglish1.narod.ru/ 

http://strolldownlucylane.com/excuse-me-do-you-speak-aussie-australian-versus-british-english-language/ 

There are a lot more differences, you are a lot better at research than I am so be my guest.

The main point I'm making is that when you are logging onto some sites, they give you a list of countries languages to choose from for that site and Australian is not one of them, it is almost as though we don't exist as a country.  Most other countries are listed, even third world economies.

If they can list American English, why not Australian English even if it is not much different to British English, at least it acknowledges us as a country and to overseas people from other countries lets them know what we speak here.

In uniquely Australian slang, the word Furphy comes to mind, which has an interesting history;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furphy 

Bogan is another slang word that is included in Australian Dictionaries;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan  

-- Edited by Vic41 on Saturday 4th of January 2014 01:05:48 PM

Cloak wrote:

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Back in my IT days computer speak for the different national English's referred to the character set not the syntax.

ie. Pound, dollar and other function keys.

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I use a US keyboard layout and a UK English spell checker.

Klingon?  As in Star Wars? 

dorian wrote:

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No, Klingon, as in Star Trek.

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Thanks Dorian, got my movies mixed up, lol