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OT, Brit, Aussie and Irish English Quizzes
John F. Eldredge bent over and whined:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:56:33 -0400, Donna wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:05:33 +0100, David Stevenson wrote: John F. Eldredge wrote On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:41:46 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote: How well could you get along in English-speaking countries? http://www.infoplease.com/quizzes/aussie/1.html No American quiz, I see. :P My scores: Aussie Talk: 90% (!) British-English 90% Irish English 90% I got 100% on the Aussie Talk quiz, and 80% each on the British-English and Irish-English quizzes. I got 70, 100 and 80 I got 100 on the British and Aussie quizzes, and I forget if I got 90 or 80 on the Irish quiz. It means we need to get more Irish posters on here. I've learned more about other dialects of English from reading them than I have from any other method. Time to recruit Irish cat-loving people to start posting anecdotes! ) One of the points I missed was more of a cultural issue (spoiler for quiz ROT13d). V xarj gung enfuref jrer onpba, ohg fryrpgrq cbgngbrf nf n sbbq gb or rngra jvgu gurz. Urer va gur fbhgurea HFN, sevrq cbgngbrf (pnyyrq unfu oebjaf) ner n pbzzba oernxsnfg qvfu, nybat jvgu gur rttf gung gur dhvm unq nf gur pbeerpg nafjre. Xrrc gung pubyrfgreby pbhag hc SngObv |
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