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PrinceCharming

Fucking odd question but it's 4am here in the most beautiful country on earth.
Anyway do you think it's harder to teach spelling to kids in places like Australia where words and how they are spelt just don't really go together.
E.G. arvo is short for afternoon even though they it's only really right if you have a good Aussie slur to afternoon.
Compared to America's very simplified English or something like received English in the UK

Idk for anyone learning English is trying to decipher spelling and meaning from Aussies like the hard mode

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Warlordwibz

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nah m8, just go for a maccas run m8, its right next to the servo.

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PrinceCharming

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Yeah nah too easy, might have a quick squiz down the bottle'o see if Uncle Dan (Murphy's not Andrews of course) has restocked the frothies. Maybe some lolli water for the misso. See if the boys can't pull any fit birds down the local you know, we ain't here to fuck spiders.

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reycac

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any non native english speaker gets to choose 3 pokeballs of whether or not they want to speak american english ,uk english ,or australian english

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PrinceCharming

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It's a real shame they always learn American English from tv shows and not Aussie English down the pub

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there is a decent amount of slang and Irish words that have became slang where I live so if I was to type how I speak, anyone that lives outside of the country wouldn't understand 50% of my writing

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PrinceCharming

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Yeah the article kind of has gone the wrong way but I meant more the pronunciation. American English is very clear and simple whereas Australian English has a lot of nuanced pronunciation reminiscent of a drunken slur, I assume it would be similar if you had a Scots man or an Irish man trying to teach a native Spanish speaker English instead of a Brit who speaks received English or an American

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cohnr

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slurring is common in my accent and we typically just dont say the last letter or even full last syllable of some words so I can understand that, it makes sense that non native speakers always have such trouble with the way I speak on CS or Val servers. I have to completely change my accent so I have to accents, one for daily life and one for games.

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flag confused me for a second but when kids are learning their first language it's usually no real problem regardless; however, I can see how this would apply to someone older learning english and being taught aussie pronounciations vs other accents