Kate Burridge Quotes
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'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
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A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard
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All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
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Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
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Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.