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The grammar of raising the last sylabble up slightly, as if it's a semi-question.
Or Australian, very annoying. It's pretentious, annoying and not very clever.
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Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 25 May 2012, 13:24,
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That is called 'AQI'
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:28,
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I stuck AQI into Google, and got this...sounds about right.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_IraqAlways wondered whom was behind bad soap operas.
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Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 25 May 2012, 13:34,
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Australian Quizzical Intonation, bruv.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:34,
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Also known as BAFRWCSC
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:52,
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Did you just throw up mid-post?
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:52,
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Bloody annoying fucking retards who cant speak correctly
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:59,
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We don't do it on purpose you know.
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Poppet some assembly required., Fri 25 May 2012, 13:54,
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I have to say I find the slightly more parochial Australian accent intensely irritating.
A lot of you sound lovely, but it's the ones with the nasal twang who sound permanently surprised at everything that comes out of their mouths that really grates on my ears.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:59,
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I fully admit that I occasionally do it, but it's usually only when I'm thinking.
And I don't, to my knowledge, have a nasal twang. That's a Queenslander specialty.
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Poppet some assembly required., Fri 25 May 2012, 14:01,
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I have heard many a New South Walesian speaking like that.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:03,
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Isnt it something to do with
The younger generations having a poor education and therefore not having the confidence to make a statement and therefore going up at the end of the sentence means that they dont have to stand by the statement.
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:05,
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Eh?
I think it's just to do with where you're from. School is compulsory until you're 16 - and from then until you're 18 you either have to be at TAFE (technical college), in an apprenticeship or at highschool. S'nothing to do with your education.
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Poppet some assembly required., Fri 25 May 2012, 14:09,
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I was being disparaging about the YOUTH of today
but it was a theory that someone came up with, by poor education I dont think they were refering to the actual qualifications but that schooling now is often about passing the exam as opposed to a wider preperation to adult life.
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Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:31,
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Well them too.
And the South Australians. And the Western Australians. Seems to be only Victorians and Tasmainians and ACT'ans who don't generally have the twang.
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Poppet some assembly required., Fri 25 May 2012, 14:06,
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The ACT'ans are too busy watching porn and visiting sex shops to question anything.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:10,
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or to say anything.
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Poppet some assembly required., Fri 25 May 2012, 14:12,
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I read that as
'We don't do it on purpose? You know?'
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:09,
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I left the question marks out deliberately.
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Poppet some assembly required., Fri 25 May 2012, 14:10,
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