Letters of the English alphabet that have become obsolete.
Here's something that showed up in my YouTube "Recommended" queue. Perhaps friend and commenter Gregory will be so kind as to expound on this, er, interesting exercise in translation.
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The Letters of the Alphabet segment was fascinating.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever listened to Aborigine patois like that, you could probably get more sense out of it than out of regular Joe Biden speech.
Oh, absolutely.
ReplyDeleteSo, "Ye" actually is pronounced as "The".
ReplyDeleteColor me astonished. I never knew.
They should have had a sign language person there as well for all the hearing impaired Aboriginals. That would have been fascinating.
ReplyDeleteThis was the moment that Masky Mark's aura of brilliant leadership began to fade. 'No jab, no alcohol' helped too.
ReplyDeleteMcClown seemed invincible a year ago. Then, within the space of a few weeks he produced this video, a bunch of brainfart policies like that one above, and reneged on the Feb 5 date for opening the borders.
But I'm sure his Twitterbot army still thinks he's bigger than Jesus.
NB:Commenters on the various youtube pages hosting the vid have pointed to the woman's body language. She seems quite uncomfortable there. Adding to the awkward quotient.
Mick: Haw!
ReplyDeleteGregory: The body language struck me immediately; sort of, "What this whitefella want with me?"
Gregory, I agree about the woman's body language. Could it be that most of his Aboriginal listeners would have been perfectly able to understand his speech in plain English without the translator? I think she was signaling how insulted she was.
ReplyDeleteRebecca, I think most if not all urban indigenous would have understood without any problems. As for those out in the remote communities - a lot of them don't even have an internet connection.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/economy/internet-access-in-aboriginal-communities