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posted 10th Feb, 2010

My thoughts for this week are about speech and the English language. I has the misfortune to listen to a bright young pair on the radio this morning; my husband chose a station at random last night and set our new alarm clock for 8 this morning, and I awoke to the sounds of mindless banter between two very young presenters, on some unknown breakfast show,  trying very hard to sound intelligent; but it was their language that set my teeth on edge - not foul language, just the fact that they couldn't speak a language. After prattling about politics in a juvenile way, she then mentioned some 'unrelevant' information she'd share with him later. Now I've heard of unprofitable, unsolicited, untimely, untruth, unworthy and even unperson, amongst others, but never 'unrelevant'. I found the use of this word unsavoury, unprecedented, unprofessional, unskilled and it should be unutterable.

I think the word she was trying to say was 'irrelevant', which was exactly what she had become to me; she was also irredeemable and irrecoverable as a presenter,  I on the other hand, am irrepressible when it comes to the irreverent use of our language.

I'm also unremitting when it comes to picking on people for phonetic spelling, such as dayz, luv, color,   but it really sets my teeth on edge when people make up words. Youtube uses the word 'favourited' as in "Ursula favourited a video clip"

Anyone know of  any other stupid made up words??

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posted 07.01.09

Christmas at My Place

Yes I am GUILTY, I haven't been blogging since November, 2009, but Christmas baking and preparations took over my life, and I had a great Christmas, how about you? Lots of family, food, friends and fun. The weather is all over the place, very reminiscent of my youth...hot one day, cool the next, so typical of Melbourne. We cooked the Turkey in the Webber and it was delightful, we also had rolled loin of pork stuffed with apricot and macadamias, and I baked the ham with a blood orange and mustard glaze, it was the best I've ever cooked. In deference to our hot weather I made an Italian Christmas 3 layer ice cream cake and it was yummy, with one layer filled with lovely glace fruits, one almond/vanilla bean and one rich chocolate. I also made a berry trifle for my younger son, he loves trifle. I had to make 2 batches of Nigella's rocky road, it is beautiful and I recommend you try it, it is the best you'll ever taste, and of course my little christmas biscuits.  We went to Portsea for a few days with my best friend, it was beautiful weather, and we re charged our batteries, ready for 2010, here are some photos. Now I need to lose those few extra kgs I added to my waist over the season, and stick to my resolutions....I will keep up with my blog...I will keep up with my blog...I will keep up with my blog...Happy New Year all, cheers Ursula.

 

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 From flood to fire, NSW has already had it's fair share of inclement weather this summer. Australia is heading for another season of severe fire danger, as we continue in one of our cyclic droughts. Dorothea Mackellar's poem was published in 1908 and is still so relevant here today!

 

  Giant Chinese pandas Wang Wang and Funi have touched down at Adelaide Airport (28/11/09) and are clearing customs ahead of a waiting police escort to deliver them safely to their new home.

The pandas are being unloaded from their crates for processing by quarantine and customs officials. They will then be transported in a climate-controlled semi-trailer to a new $8 million enclosure.

Travelling with them are Chinese keepers and vets as well as Adelaide Zoo keepers who have been getting to know the bears over the past few weeks.

Adelaide Zoo spokeswoman Emily Rice said the pandas were expected to arrive around lunchtime.

"It depends on how quickly they are processed," she told AAP.

"They should be here in the next hour or two."

Wang Wang and Funi will spend the next month in quarantine, ensconced inside the enclosure which includes some innovative features including refrigerated rocks to ensure they can handle the Australian summer heat.
 

We're pretty notorious  for our for our sharks here - particularly the Great White fish variety, how's this for a day at the beach? (from Yahoo - 1/11/2009)

Rhys Gadsden was out for a morning paddle off Portland on Friday when he says a great white shark appeared from the deep and wrapped its jaws around his sea kayak, leaving giant puncture marks.e marks.

The 27-year-old was flipped off the kayak and spent a terrifying 15 minutes in the water by his kayak desperately hoping he would not be eaten alive.

"I grabbed my oars, hit it in the head probably five to six times and it released it," the Portland man told the Nine Network.

"It was freaky being in the water, yeah, I didn't know where it went, I didn't know if it was going to come back.me back.

"I didn't know what to do really, I didn't want to splash around and make it come back."

Finally a nearby boat came to his rescue.

Humpty Dumpty  from ABC October, 23rd 2009
A children's literature expert says changes made to the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty are part of a worrying trend in society. In the United Kingdom, the BBC is under fire for rewriting Humpty Dumpty to give it a happy ending on the CBeebies children's program Something Special. Instead of the last line saying "couldn't put Humpty together again", the new version claimed all the King's horses and all the King's men "made Humpty happy again".
June Factor, who has spent nearly four decades researching and writing children's books, says such moves to "sanitise" story-telling is very concerning. "It's a sad sort of ignorance involved. It's completely unnecessary, it's a misjudgement and it's foolishness," she told ABC News Online. "I am concerned about this misunderstanding and misreading of human development, and in many ways there are quite serious restrictions being placed on children. "It's a worrying trend because there is, in countries like England and Australia, a strange panic about children. "The idea is that children should be protected against all risk and in this case they are seeing a psychological risk. On the contrary, it's a psychological strengthening you gain from this material." Dr Factor, an honorary senior research fellow at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, says unnecessary changes have been made to children's tales for generations. And she says those who "bowdlerise" children's literature do have good intentions, but they are missing the cultural and historical point of nursery rhymes and fairytales.
"Their intentions are always admirable - the path to hell is paved with good intentions. They are hoping to make sure children aren't frightened but of course they are omitting the purpose," she said.he said.
"[Nursery rhymes] are not there as a cotton ball to protect children from the world. They are a way of exposing children to the world from the safety of someone's lap." Dr Factor says scary tales are meant to teach children about dangers in the world. "Fairytales are full of very grim life experiences - dead parents, being left in the woods, there's tricksters and dangers - and what they do for children is a whole number of things," she said. "It's a way of approaching the world for children in symbolic ways so they do gain some understanding of the world but they don't actually have to go out and experience the big bad wolf or whatever.

"They are about courage, resilience, quick-wittedness, patience and they are all about hope."
I can only agree with all these comments.  Stop re writing history, and leave books alone.

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