Well Nic i disagree with you as well as Elizabeth; I was not talking about Strine and i would say that if you speak Strine you are in a very small minority. The English i was talking about is our version of the Queens English and largely as it is spoken over most of Australia; which is well regarded as being almost uniform or nearly so anyway.
I lived for 60 years in Sydney and now live in Queensland and have been travelling on business throughout Australia for about 40 years and am fairly unique in that i have visited all states of Australia and both islands of New Zealand several times. Really the variations i have encountered are quite small. Sydney talks a lot faster than anywhere else and i think this is due to its size and its London origins ( i have visited London several times as well). Here in Queensland we talk pretty slowly especially in the country and in Adeleaide they seem to have a more English accent than the rest. I know castle and caster as in Doncaster is pronounced differently in Melbourne and Sydney. But really i have not noticed much variation in the way people talk in Australia at all.
The various types of Australian you mentioned are peope from different Australian states and not any particular variation in language. Sangropers Western Australia; Crow Eaters South Australia, Mexcians Victoria (south of the border) Banana Benders Queensland, Cockroaches are from New South Wales particularly Sydney. but Welsh i have not heard of; which doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
As far as LGB's instructions are concerned, i have no intention of doing anything like becoming a proof reader. The proof is in the pudding and i have taken a representative of LGB to court and i won the case on this very point in question.
Just to tell you a little bit more about my travels I have visited 13 countries in Europe, 11 in Asia, 7 in Oceana, 2 in North America including 12 of the Untited States and one in Central America (Mexico). I have actually kived in England, France, Northern Ireland, Germany, Singapore as well as Australia. My wife and i are houseswappers of some experience.
Rgds Ian
Sand Groper?, Welsh? Crow-eater?, Bush?
iandor wrote:Elizabeth, I do understand a bit of German but i'm not actually fluent in it, Ilived in Bremen for a short while. I do understand that German translated into English asn't all that underatndable; i think this where LGB have gone wrong with their instructions. I also resent your reference to North American English i and my my fellow Australians do not subscribe to what you have said at all and some of the other stuff you have said as well.. Our Asutralian version of English is of quite a high standard and is certainly more true to the proper and correct version; which of course in British English. Rgds Ian
Elizabeth, I do understand a bit of German but i'm not actually fluent in it, Ilived in Bremen for a short while. I do understand that German translated into English asn't all that underatndable; i think this where LGB have gone wrong with their instructions.
I also resent your reference to North American English i and my my fellow Australians do not subscribe to what you have said at all and some of the other stuff you have said as well.. Our Asutralian version of English is of quite a high standard and is certainly more true to the proper and correct version; which of course in British English.
I must agree the problems with LGB stuff; is few and far between and the very worst thing LGB could do is to try to compete on price.
I am similar i am a retiree and i do not have an unlimited budget or even a renewable one. However i would rather pay more for and item and have less items; rather than buy stuff that really isn't what i want.I am commited to DCC and LGB and it would be very hard me for to change my stance at this time.
Thank you; it does a bit but it is till a very murky situation to me. If they are going to sell it off, why has a major bank stepped in and why is the City of Nuremberg backing the entire matter.
This to me, being the eternal optomist means that they are trying to save it as an operationg entity; which of course is a very good thing and important to LGB users and owners of about $30,000 of their equipment., like me.
Rgds ian
Thank you for that information Elizabeth; but as do many people when answering a question they do not understand that question and that is, why was a lawyer appointed to a position normally held by an accountant?
When i retired i was a marketing manager to an instrumentality of the Chinese government. I have had a lot of business management experience and i have seen many insolvency situations and i really cannot see how what you had to say had anything to do with my question.
I have been thinking a fair bit about this LGB financial thing and one thing has stood out like a sore thumb and no one has mentioned it and it adds credibility to the hostile takeover business.
Why was a lawyer, Dr Stephen Goede appointed to the position of trying to get them out of the poo instead of an accountant? Would it mean that their problem is more legal than financial; or is it how they do things in Germany?
I have seen this sort of thing happen here in Australia often and a firm of international accountants are appointed and they charge so much the action is almost a kiss of death, for the company involved. It was interesting that the City of Nuremburg is backing LGB
The idea that the huge building they are in is eating its head off has occured to me and also that the company being an older style family unit have gone soft on their workers and they are not working at even half pace (i have seen this myself)
Unfortunately as i have got older i have become pretty cynical and really don't believe much of what i read.
That is Great News. I am stocking up on my G scale stuff for a future Garden Railroad! I have been buying nothing but LGB track! I can say that I still need alot of track.Thanks for to great news!Baker
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