Grammar Discussions

[medhead]

I think that esseeeayeenn must be a gen Y'er.

I'm definitely not Y either and I've always seen bubbler as the americanism.

 

[OATEK]

I'm definitely not Y either and I've always seen bubbler as the americanism.

Can't ever remember "Drinking Fountains" in my upbringing in Sydney and Hobart - my only memory is of "bubblers". Not sure about the pejorative use of "NRL" in someone else's posts, can't we just agree it is a regional difference like the football codes rather than attribute usage to the presence of of those codes?

 

[medhead]

Can't ever remember "Drinking Fountains" in my upbringing in Sydney and Hobart - my only memory is of "bubblers". Not sure about the pejorative use of "NRL" in someone else's posts, can't we just agree it is a regional difference like the football codes rather than attribute usage to the presence of of those codes?

I'm struggling to remember what i called them. Maybe fountains. Or maybe at school drinking troughs. Being from queensland there were whole banks of them at school.
The NRL thing isn't really about NRL. Pretty sure that's a reference to some NRL player (Tod Carney?) who was pictured in a compromising situation trying to consume his own waste emissions direct from the source. Normally, I just put such NRL comments down to jealousy due to NRL being played in a number of countries rather than half of one country.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Where'd you dig up the non-English quotes?

Me brain, Bru.

The last English one I plagiarised.

 

[coco50]

Me brain, Bru.

The last English one I plagiarised.

There's never been a more exciting time to be a plagiarist!

 

[prozac]

I'm definitely not Y either and I've always seen bubbler as the americanism.

No, it is an Australianism. Yanks don't have a clue what a bubbler is.

 

[JessicaTam]

Don't look further! Good to see you are not up with the shenanigans of our over hyped "heroes' in the NRL!

I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Excellent.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Amusing.

Wait... is that a rule? Ten everyday grammar mistakes you might be making | Books | The Guardian

Cute dog.

 

[JohnK]

Maybe "bubbler" is a NSW thing.
I have lived in QLD and WA (and part time in SA) and have always referred to them as drinking fountains.

Drinking fountain?

 

[Warks]

Saw this at a factory in Melbourne - I saw at least three of them. I had to think about what it was saying for a bit then realised maybe the boss was a Kiwi and dictated what he wanted on the sign.

 

[get me outta here]

I always call them bubblers and I think the name apt because that is all they did, just bubbled out so that you couldn't actually get enough clearance to drink the water, a sort of water torture without the water.

Drinking fountain?

 

[Foreigner]

Couple of signs seen this past week:

1 in Double Bay restaurant restroom

2 in men's change room at Westin Sydney gym

 

[Milboo]

This was in a popular fashion store in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

 

[JessicaTam]

This was in a popular fashion store in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Oops!

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[medhead]

Saw this at a factory in Melbourne - I saw at least three of them. I had to think about what it was saying for a bit then realised maybe the boss was a Kiwi and dictated what he wanted on the sign.

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Seems ok. You can't have those doors. They need them, they're not factory excess.

 

[whatmeworry]

One for lovers of cats and grammar.

 

[Milboo]

Asian restaurant menus are guaranteed to contain at least one oops!

My local Malaysian place has new menu boards and now sell Garlic Water Spanish...

 

[prozac]

Email this morning from LATAM, the merged LAN TAM group announcing the new website etc. Interesting to see the non-standard use of "Aircrafts" in the announcement.

 

[Warks]

Irregular verbs: newspapers (in this case the Sydney Morning Herald's front page) just don't understand them any more:

Rare trove of Roman statues and coins found after ship carrying them sunk 1600 years ago.

Say it together: sink, sank, sunk!