{"id":23,"date":"2007-09-09T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/09\/not-speaking-english\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T22:32:26","slug":"not-speaking-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"not speaking english"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on words. Of course these meaning I give are the ones I normally use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of liking London, they are not actually talking\u00a0about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\">London<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of liking hot food, they are not talking about the\u00a0temperature\u00a0or amount of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chili_pepper\">chili<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of getting the sack, they are not talking about a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Termination_of_employment\">work place change<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of getting shot, they are not talking of thing to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun\">guns<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camera\">cameras<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of being sick, they are not talking about having an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illness\">illness<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of picnics, they are not talking about going to a park, putting down a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Picnic\">rug and eating food<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When\u00a0people\u00a0in\u00a0Sydney talk of older sisters, they do not seem to be talking about older <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sister\">siblings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of friends, they are not talking about the opposite of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/enemy\">enemies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of sluts, they are not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ethical_Slut\">sexually\u00a0promiscuous\u00a0women<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of snoring, they are not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snore\">making\u00a0noises\u00a0while sleepin<\/a>g.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of being tired, they are not talking about being\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fatigue_%28physical%29\">exhausted<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When people in Sydney talk of licking lollipops, the are not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Licking\">licking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lollipops\">lollipops<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Sometimes I wonder what\u00a0language\u00a0they are speaking. And I wonder what other words are somewhat\u00a0redefined. Perhaps &#8220;And&#8221; or &#8220;The&#8221; have different meanings? Their\u00a0language\u00a0is not my\u00a0language,\u00a0though they seem not to notice. I speak mostly English, Western Melbourne, with a hard core of English,\u00a0Singapore,\u00a0with a bit of English, Upper Murray, Malaysian, Adelaide, Brisbane and\u00a0Eastern\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0thrown\u00a0in for good luck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Anyway, all of this causes no end of confusion and many misunderstandings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on words. Of course these meaning I give are the ones I normally use. When people in Sydney talk[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2051],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}