The funny side of language....

Throughout my 4.5yrs stay in Australia, i learnt many of their coloquilisms. Let me share a few egs:

"Hi, u look evil." (means you look very tired, worn-out, lian3 she4 hen3 cha4)

"I will be home in the avo." (avo means afternoon)

"What time will the garbo arrive?" (garbo means the garbage collectors )

But there was one tt really amused me. Now, how do u pronounce the word 'today'? I duno the phonics but for simplicity's sake, it is pronounced as '2 dey' accdg to what we have been taught/exposed to correct?

But the Aussies pronounce it as '2 die'. So when i heard an Aussie friend saying this sentence,

" i m going to the hospital today.".....i nearly choked with laughter!!!

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I m sure many of us know what punctuation marks are. Full-stop, comma, colon, etc etc..... But the following shows tt punctuation is very impt bcos the meaning can be changed by just using different punctuation marks or by putting them at various places in a sentence. Read on....

An English professor wrote this sentence [ "A woman without her man is nothing."] on the board n asked his students to punctuate it correctly.


So all the males wrote:

" A woman without her man, is nothing."

N all the females wrote:

"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

So what is the lesson here? Punctuation is powerful!!!!