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sephiRoth IRA posted:I’m likely uninformed, but isn’t Australian English just a diversion from British English and US English and the largest differences are spelling and idioms? Is this instructor taking 40% off for spelling?
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I get that. I do. I have family ask me for medical advice all the time. The issue is I generally take these stories at face value. We have posters who straight-up make up facts to fit the narrative they want the story to have. This guy claims to have not just sent emails but also been a laborer at her worksite. He clearly contributed effort and didn’t expect anything back (with the exception of shared support). He didn’t want free work, he was hoping for a discount because they were essentially using shared resources in his eyes because he saw them as a long term item. I have to hire/fire a decent number of guys because I can only keep a couple guys paid year round so I have to hire short term guys often and I travel all over, and the whole story just reeked of bad employee overvaluing his contributions. I mean if you want to call her TA because she didnt fairly pay him for the work he did, I can see that and this is what it gets her but all I'm reading is theres a disconnect between what she thinks hes done and what he thinks hes done.
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I’m likely uninformed, but isn’t Australian English just a diversion from British English and US English and the largest differences are spelling and idioms? Is this instructor taking 40% off for spelling? I assume its some standard format and grammar different from the standard US English. The spelling of "colour" as "color" would just be someone being deliberately stupid in an Australian journalism course. Being proficient in technical writing is mostly "did you follow the format and style 100%?" and then docking points for minor grammar or spelling mistakes. Not following the format is basically a hard fail. Even not citing sources properly using the correct MLA or whatever standard they use is an automatic rejection for any publisher. If your margins are off standard you can expect to get an automatic rejection. Communication and journalism I can understand because the standards for writing that format are super strict. Content being accurate not so much.
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Nov 30, 2019 18:27
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I totally missed that it was a journalism course. That makes it a bigger deal for sure
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Nov 30, 2019 18:29
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for failing a student who refused to write in the correct language? Pretty loving sad that Australians have such a weak notion of language that they can't handle a few words spelled without extra u's. This is what happens when you have an entire nation of people huddled in their homes and beset by spiders and fire on all sides. Here in America, where at least I know I'm free to get shot by a cop, we can spell however we want. Our minds have expanded beyond the small necessities of grammar and into the more pressing realm of chicken wing prices and how many sticks of fried butter can be eaten.
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Nov 30, 2019 18:33
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Pinecone Sample posted:She called me an arsehole... Of course you're going to fail a journalism course if you're not following the format specified. That's half the point of the course, to teach you how to write for the audiences you'll likely be employed for. No one's writing for the L.A. Times and talking about lorry drivers on strike.
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Nov 30, 2019 18:35
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I'd read an extremely scottish account on American news
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Nov 30, 2019 18:52
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:I'd read an extremely scottish account on American news I'd watch American news if all the anchors had interesting accents chris eccleston does the weather, david tennant's original accent for international events, faye marsay for local, brad pitt in snatch for literally everything else
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Nov 30, 2019 18:57
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I want to take a course in English English.
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Nov 30, 2019 19:02
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FilthyImp posted:Weren't you the one whinging on how mean the stereotypical cosmopolitan girlfriend was being to the bigots, because she threw their small-town hick ways in their face? No? I said in one line that it "probably didn't help" to get on them for where they live, in that situation, even if it were true. It's not like I was ever sympathizing with the people I called dumbasses and bigots. Also: nice meltdown. Not as good as the last one, but good nonetheless. 6/10
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Nov 30, 2019 19:08
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Bill Brasky posted:I want to take a course in English English. So some bizarre amalgamation of every weird accent in England, taking elements of MLE, Brummie, Scouse, Yorkshire, East Anglian and West Country? Yeah I'd be up for that
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Nov 30, 2019 19:09
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TheKennedys posted:I'd watch American news if all the anchors had interesting accents Fun fact Brad Pitts character was re written from cockney to unintelligible Irish because he couldn’t do a British accent making it 1000x better.
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Nov 30, 2019 19:14
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Bill Brasky posted:I want to take a course in English English. I'd love to take a course in Transatlantic English. I've always wanted to sound like an old-timey broadcaster.
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Nov 30, 2019 19:15
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Brad Pitt in the party scene from Inglourious Basterds please
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Nov 30, 2019 19:45
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:Do these people live in 1985? Nah, just a place that was probably built in 1985 & barely maintained
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Nov 30, 2019 19:45
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haveblue posted:Brad Pitt in the party scene from Inglourious Basterds please A riva derchi.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:25
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:Do these people live in 1985? $350 a month is the low end for a mobile home park Before anyone asks, there’s going to be a long waiting list
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Nov 30, 2019 20:40
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Ziv Zulander posted:$350 a month is the low end for a mobile home park Well yeah, all those tweaker startups.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:41
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You called her holier-than-thou for standing up for herself. It's not a lazy put-down when they're literally playing the stereotype out. And anyway, they were being idiots and it got turned around on them.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:42
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AITA for not taking a tubby with my girlfriend?quote:Hello Reddit, this is my first time making a post like this so please bare with me.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:48
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That is not what I thought "taking a tubby" would mean just from reading the title.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:51
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Why have a tubby when you can hit the drippini instead?
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Nov 30, 2019 20:55
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for not taking a tubby with my girlfriend? This was skin-crawling to read. Eeesh.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:56
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Nov 30, 2019 21:00
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for not taking a tubby with my girlfriend? Tubbini Edit: fb! Regarding tubby wimpman - are we taking bets on manchild vs aussie yet?
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Nov 30, 2019 21:00
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Ugly In The Morning posted:This was skin-crawling to read. Eeesh. And that's why the American Girl got points taken off for not using the correct country idioms in a communication class!
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Nov 30, 2019 21:01
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How much Bad Divorce Advice can an MRA propagate before they're liable for providing faulty legal aid? these asshats all have the exact same playbook, i got to assume they're coordinating.
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Nov 30, 2019 21:03
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Something is probably wrong with a 22 year old using baby talk but then there’s also the entire rest of the post
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Nov 30, 2019 21:06
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I thought "taking a tubby" would be a slam whale thing (in which case YTA for not taking a tubby).
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Nov 30, 2019 21:08
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Lucrece posted:[FL] Can I make family member sell their house to me if it was part of the estate? honestly not owning a house in florida is the smartest thing you can do. i'm posting this publically, not as a toxx but so it can be quoted for prescient insight in the future, but the united states government would sooner buy out the entire flooded state of florida than spend a single red cent preventing the sea levels from rising in the first place.
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Nov 30, 2019 21:08
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Tubbyphobia resides in America if he's talking about Thanksgiving on a quick Twitter search I found scattered uses across the US and a couple in the UK, too
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:How much Bad Divorce Advice can an MRA propagate before they're liable for providing faulty legal aid? these asshats all have the exact same playbook, i got to assume they're coordinating. You'd think that. The thing about being a stupid rear end in a top hat though is that they go with the first thing that sounds good so they usually draw the same conclusion.
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Nov 30, 2019 21:09
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for failing a student who refused to write in the correct language? How many assessments did this dumbass get back graded 10% and not get the hint? And would 55% have been a passing grade anyway?
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:You'd think that. The thing about being a stupid rear end in a top hat though is that they go with the first thing that sounds good so they usually draw the same conclusion. Yeah, it’s always stuff like “drain the bank account so they can’t get a lawyer” and “get a fake address to change the venue” that sounds like effective underhanded tactics until you realize courts have seen it before and will absolutely come down on it, hard.
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Nov 30, 2019 21:12
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for not taking a tubby with my girlfriend? I love how all these freaks have a "so something happened and it haunts me to this day but don't ask for details" because its like a 50/50 chance it was either some traumatic PTSD thing or it was a complete non issue they refuse to address or move past. Being afraid to take a bath because so serious sexual absue happened while in one is pretty legitimate to hate baths, and no reasonable partner would force someone to be that uncomfortable. Given how angry the girlfriend is getting it seems more like a "one time the water was brown and icky I can't ever take a bath again"
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Nov 30, 2019 21:22
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In the drip-drip waiting for the water to start, Sat right down and took a shart
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Owlbear Camus posted:I thought "taking a tubby" would be a slam whale thing (in which case YTA for not taking a tubby). I figured it was slang for taking a dump
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Nov 30, 2019 21:43
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Pinecone Sample posted:With or without prejudice? Husband installed spy-software on my computer, went to prostitutes, got an STD and passed it to me, hid all our assets, emptied our accounts, cancelled my insurance. I need help. quote:We had bought some gems as an investment, he told me he had a buyer for these and took them, but just gave them to his sister. Look at these morons buying precious rocks instead of fractional shares of a business or municipal debt. All of my assets only exist on paper because I am smart.
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Oh and construction wife mooch guy is definitely either unemployed or he's some low-level computer toucher which is why he considers helping her draft an email to be work. When he didn't charge her for "being a laborer" it was probably helping to move some lumber or picking up screws at home depot or whatever. Now she's probably got a crew of half a dozen skilled laborers to work on whatever the project is and he's asking her to eat the cost because he carried some nails and plugged in her printer.
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Pinecone Sample posted:Tubbyphobia resides in America if he's talking about Thanksgiving I was thinking it’s got to be an Australian term
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