Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.
/s
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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No /s, it is, no one says Gen Zed, or Jay Zed, XY Zee is just next in line, it's all Zee's and it makes sense why
At this point nobody is learning 'English', people are learning American because they watch American Movies, TV Shows, listen to American Music, eat American Food, play American Video Games, we watch literally millions of American Youtube and Tiktok Videos every day, we're following American Influencers and Celebrities, with American Social Media Australians are following American Politics more closely than Australian Politics and frequently confusing the two, in addition we're all addicted to the American Apps installed on American Operating Systems (all of them, Windows and MacOS and Android and IOS) on the American Smart Phones/Laptops/Desktops
The top most visited websites in Australia:
https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/australia/
- American
- American
- American
- American
- American
The consequence of this is that we lose our culture, but as some French statesman said: why bother when everyone is enjoying everything?
no one says Gen Zed
Odd choice of example, I hear it often.
Yeah my daughter referred to herself as a zedder yesterday. I hear it often enough
Zedda is a new one to me, but I reckon it will stick.
Well tbf what you're losing is the UK's culture. Finding a balance of other stuff that works for you instead of clinging to tradition is how you build a culture of your own.
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Well, Trump did get elected. Do you're probably correct.
It’s fine. Outside of visiting the United States I never hear anyone say zee. Even the American guys at work say zed.
We explained to our 4 year old, when she was 2, why she might hear zee on tv. She gets it and goes “it’s zed!” when she hears those shows. This is a nothing problem.
Exactly what we did. Demonised the filth, before the infection could spread.
Zee, candy, cookies. All that American language creeping in shits me.
And yet we also see "football" being used more and more often to refer to soccer. The one time Australian culture and American culture should be in sync, some of us decided to copy the bloody poms.
I'm not sure if I understand which version you'd prefer- Do you want football to refer to the game where players use their hands to move an egg shaped object, or do you think football should refer to the game where players use their feet to move a ball shaped object?
We’re not America.
Here we say football to refer to the game where players use their feet to move an egg shaped object.
Look out, you'll upset the rugby fans.
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As long as they don't call it footy its fine. Football is a broad term for a lot of codes.
⚽ 🇺🇸 SOCCER 🇦🇺 ⚽
The Wiggles alphabet song says this too. Although that I get since they export to the states now. It might even introduce American kids to the Zed.
Playschool is unforgivable. That's our national kids show and should be Australian.
I always knew it as zee growing up. It worked in the rhyme.
"W, X, Y and Zee, now I know my A B Cs, next time won't you sing with me" (that last line is probably a separate argument on its own 😂).
Then Dragon Ball Z hit Australian TV and it was done after that.
Idk which it's meant to be and I'm too afraid to ask
I feel like no matter how I say it some cunt always tells me I'm saying it wrong
Wait until you hear what they did to the U.S. alphabet.
LMNOP is gone. They fucking killed it.
What?! Noooooooooo!
Close, but not quite. It's actually "L M N O P", but that's okay keep trying!! ;)
Huh?
Basically the song got changed in elementary school from,
"ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRS TUV WX Y and Z(ee)"
to
"ABCEFG HIJK L M N OPQ RSTUV WXY and Z"
Basically they slowed it down
So does it no longer go to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?
It "does", which makes it even worse.
Sorry for the mobile YT link, starts at 25 seconds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVuk71UdIf8&t=27s&pp=2AEbkAIB
Wow, that was...something. Completely dumps the rhyming "ee". If kids are having trouble with understanding elemeno, a better solution (IMO anyway, as someone who is not in any way an early learning educator) would be to just be more staccato with annunciating the l. m. n. o. peee.
We coulda nipped this in the bud if we had joined together and formed AmerAustralia, a unified country. I tried to promote it. We’d each have each other’s backs when the other was sleeping. But noooo. And now Zed is dead. smh. I’m so sad for all that could have been.
The Austra-Zealand Union is what we should be looking at. Sure, the accent will take a hit, but we will be unstoppable in sports.
You’d both be on the same side of the world. Who would keep an eye on things while you sleep?
It rhymes better with zee. Seeth.
Why stop there? Time to campaign for fee, hee, jee, kee, etc.
L, M, N and O get a free pass because they're really just a prefix to P, not letters in their own right.
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We can have a little pogrom against usaians as a treat.
usaians
Cringe.
Just say Americans mate, we all know you’re not referring to the inhabitants of North America or South America, you’re not correcting any confusion only adding it by not using the countries name.
by not using the countries name
"America" is not their country's name either ("USA" is actually closer, now that you mention it)
America is the country's short/familiar name. Like how the Commonwealth of Australia is just called Australia, the United Mexican States is called Mexico, and the Republic of China is called Taiwan.
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*USians
Your version has too many vowels.
You're wrong Play School!
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