I’m all for inclusion of all people in our society. No one should be prejudiced for who they are.
BUT! Today I have to draw the line! Listening to the Play School alphabet song with my kid and it goes “A, B, C, D…X, Y, zed or zee”. Since when is this blatant destruction of our national identity accepted?
I’ll be picketing outside the ABC’s head office from tomorrow and following that the education office until this travesty can be corrected! Who’s with me?!
You’re wrong Play School!
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.
Who the fuck says C to Z?
Rappers on a tight schedule?
Gotta make happy hour
Wait until you hear what they did to the U.S. alphabet.
LMNOP is gone. They fucking killed it.
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.
What?! Noooooooooo!
Close, but not quite. It’s actually “L M N O P”, but that’s okay keep trying!! ;)
That’s enough internet for me for today. Sick fuck. At least put a NSFL warning next time.
I cringe if I hear someone use a hard Z
Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead.
/s
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?
I’ve heard people say Jay Zed. I’ve also heard Zed Zed Top.
Language is weird.
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
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.
As a NZr, I couldnt care less. English is a juggernaut truck - it goes on regardless.
Is play school big over there?
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.
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.
Right behind you my dude.
A picket on the sidewalk is a great idea.
A noble cause
That’s really fucking stupid. It’s not about “diversity”, they just want to make it look like they are doing stuff.
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.
Nah, it’s funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?
Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.
Despite the European Union not including all of Europe, a German would definitely call themselves European when describing themselves as a citizen of the EU and not an EUian
Is Australia the entire south of the world?
Is Australia the entire south of the world?
if you’re asking me to defend the decisions of the British you are looking in the wrong place lmfao.
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.
Mexicans are americans.
Colombians are americans.
Brazilians are americans.
Unitedstates-ians are americans.
It’s funny because spanish doesn’t have this problem. They call the people from the US estadounidenses which basically is unitedstates-ian.
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I live in colombia. All colombians call themselves americans.
Mexicans are North Americans
Colombians are South Americans.
Brazilians are South Americans.
Americans are North America but from the country called the United States of America, hence why they get called Americans and Mexicans from Mexico are called Mexicans
Mexicans are americans.
No they aren’t.
Colombians are americans.
No they aren’t
Brazilians are americans.
No they aren’t.
In every country in the anglosphere, the word “America” is synonymous with “United States of America”. If you want to speak Spanish and talk about America as a single continent as I know is common in Latin American countries, go ahead. But that is not the way the English language is ever used by native speakers.
It also frankly doesn’t make sense. It’s based in the popular idea in Latin American countries that there are 6 continents, including one called “America”. I know the definition of “continent” is fuzzy and categorising them is ambiguous, but I maintain that the only sensible 6 continent model is one which merges Eurasia, relative to the 7 continent model. If you want to talk about the Americas as a single continent, the only way to do that without blatantly coming across as ridiculous is to have a 4 continent model containing Afro-Eurasia and America.
I’m in the Anglo sphere and we call the US the US, it’s citizens ‘US Citizens’ or ‘Yanks’, regardless of state. America is used to refer to the continents.
What you’re describing is a local Americanism and is not globally always true.
Then why is it the United States of Mexico? Calling them and Canadians just reeks of Manifest Destiny bullshit.
*USians
Your version has too many vowels.
