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Paperback. Condition: Good. Aussie Slang is a richly-textured, often ribald world of understatement and laconic humour. This guide aims to do three things; (a) to help the traveller decipher what they hear around them in everyday Australian life, (b) give the causal reader some insight into informal Australian culture, and (c) make a record of some old Australian expressions that are slipping into disuse now that English has become a global language. Readers will recognize both British and American terms in this list. Australian English has absorbed much from these two great languages. For depth of knowledge of their own language, no-body beats the British. Its their language after all. A thousand years in the making, the English language is embedded deep in the DNA of the British. No-one uses their language more skilfully than they do. On the other hand, American English has a creative power that recognizes no boundaries. Americans have taken a very good all-purpose language and extended it in all kinds of directions with new words describing the world as it is today. They do not generally cling to old forms out of respect for tradition. As Winston Churchill observed, Britain and America . two great nations divided by the same language. Australian English sits comfortably in the space between the two. Australian English began in the early days of settlement as English English with a healthy dash of Celtic influence from the many Scots, Irish and Welsh settlers who came to Australia. Large numbers of German settlers also came in the 1800's, and their influence on the language is also clearly evident. For over a hundred years, Australia developed in splendid isolation its unique blend of English, tempered by the hardships of heat and cold, deluge and drought, bushfires and cyclones. The harsh environment united people in a common struggle to survive. People helped each other. Strong communitarian loyalties were engendered. It is from this that the egalitarian character of Australia evolved. There is a strong emphasis on building a feeling of solidarity with others. Strangers will call each other mate or luv in a tone of voice ordinarily reserved for close friends and family in other parts of the world. Everyone was from somewhere else, and no-one was better than anyone else. A strong anti-authoritarian attitude became deeply embedded in Australian English. This was mainly directed towards their British overlords who still ran the country as a profitable colony. The Australian sense of humour is generally understated, delivered with a straight-face, and is often self-deprecating in nature. No-one wants to appear to be up themselves. Harsh or otherwise adverse conditions had to be met without complaint, so when discussing such conditions, it was necessary to do so with laconic, understated humour. Anyone not doing so was deemed a whinger (win-jer). Following World War II the American influence came increasingly to influence Australian culture and therefore the language. No-one is better at selling their popular culture to the world than the United States of America. Their pop culture is a beguiling instrument of foreign policy, so pervasive and persuasive it is. Young Australians enthusiastically embraced American culture, and since the 1940's the old established British language and customs have become blended with the American. If Australian English has a remarkable quality, it is the absence of regional dialects. It is spoken with relative uniformity across the entire nation. Brisbane on the East coast is a 4,300 kilometre (2,700 mile) drive from Perth on the West coast, yet there is little discernible linguistic difference between the two places compared with the difference, for example between Boston and San Francisco in the US. Nowhere else in the world do we see such linguistic uniformity across large distances.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Aussie Slang is a richly-textured, often ribald world of understatement and laconic humour. This guide aims to do three things; (a) to help the traveller decipher what they hear around them in everyday Australian life, (b) give the causal reader some insight into informal Australian culture, and (c) make a record of some old Australian expressions that are slipping into disuse now that English has become a global language. Readers will recognize both British and American terms in this list. Australian English has absorbed much from these two great languages. For depth of knowledge of their own language, no-body beats the British. Its their language after all. A thousand years in the making, the English language is embedded deep in the DNA of the British. No-one uses their language more skilfully than they do. On the other hand, American English has a creative power that recognizes no boundaries. Americans have taken a very good all-purpose language and extended it in all kinds of directions with new words describing the world as it is today. They do not generally cling to old forms out of respect for tradition. As Winston Churchill observed, Britain and America . two great nations divided by the same language. Australian English sits comfortably in the space between the two. Australian English began in the early days of settlement as English English with a healthy dash of Celtic influence from the many Scots, Irish and Welsh settlers who came to Australia. Large numbers of German settlers also came in the 1800's, and their influence on the language is also clearly evident. For over a hundred years, Australia developed in splendid isolation its unique blend of English, tempered by the hardships of heat and cold, deluge and drought, bushfires and cyclones. The harsh environment united people in a common struggle to survive. People helped each other. Strong communitarian loyalties were engendered. It is from this that the egalitarian character of Australia evolved. There is a strong emphasis on building a feeling of solidarity with others. Strangers will call each other mate or luv in a tone of voice ordinarily reserved for close friends and family in other parts of the world. Everyone was from somewhere else, and no-one was better than anyone else. A strong anti-authoritarian attitude became deeply embedded in Australian English. This was mainly directed towards their British overlords who still ran the country as a profitable colony. The Australian sense of humour is generally understated, delivered with a straight-face, and is often self-deprecating in nature. No-one wants to appear to be up themselves. Harsh or otherwise adverse conditions had to be met without complaint, so when discussing such conditions, it was necessary to do so with laconic, understated humour. Anyone not doing so was deemed a whinger (win-jer). Following World War II the American influence came increasingly to influence Australian culture and therefore the language. No-one is better at selling their popular culture to the world than the United States of America. Their pop culture is a beguiling instrument of foreign policy, so pervasive and persuasive it is. Young Australians enthusiastically embraced American culture, and since the 1940's the old established British language and customs have become blended with the American. If Australian English has a remarkable quality, it is the absence of regional dialects. It is spoken with relative uniformity across the entire nation. Brisbane on the East coast is a 4,300 kilometre (2,700 mile) drive from Perth on the West coast, yet there is little discernible linguistic difference between the two places compared with the difference, for example between Boston and San Francisco in the US. Nowhere else in the world do we see such linguistic uniformity across large distances.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We are trained from our first days at school to produce answers, and to produce them quickly. Exams reward them, job interviews test for them, and in meetings the person with the most confident answer is routinely mistaken for the person who has thought hardest. Almost nobody teaches the harder and more valuable skill that sits upstream of every answer worth having: knowing what to ask.The Art of Asking Good Questions sets out to correct that imbalance. Drawing on a career spanning software engineering, quality assurance, university teaching and broadcasting, David Tuffley makes a quietly provocative case. The quality of any answer has a ceiling, and that ceiling is set by the question that produced it. A brilliant mind asking mediocre questions will reliably produce mediocre answers, and because our own questions feel like the natural way of seeing things rather than choices we have made, the flaw is almost impossible to spot from the inside.The book begins with Socrates and the Zen koan, two traditions that arrived independently at the same unfashionable conclusion: that the question is often the more sophisticated object, and the answer merely the residue it leaves behind. From there it dissects the anatomy of a question. You will learn to tell a curious question from an agenda-driven one, and to recognise the leading and loaded questions that pass for conversation in families, workplaces and political life. Why do the plainest questions so often prove the most revealing? And could it be that the person who seems to agree with you simply lacked the nerve to challenge your premise?Tuffley then turns to the precondition most advice skips entirely. You cannot ask a good follow-up question if you stopped listening halfway through the answer, and most of us do exactly that, composing our next line while the other person is still speaking. A simple two-second pause, far harder than it sounds, reveals how much of what we call conversation is really two monologues taking turns.The later chapters carry these ideas into the places they matter most. In close relationships, the gap between "Why did you do that?" and "What happened?" can decide whether an argument repairs or wounds. In problem-solving, a famously slow lift becomes a lesson in reframing, and the five whys expose why organisations so often abandon the method at precisely the moment it walks toward an uncomfortable truth. In leadership and teaching, the hardest discipline proves to be resisting the urge to answer your own question, and learning to wait while the room finds a better answer than yours.Tuffley writes candidly about his own lapses, including a quietly moving account of asking his father, near the end of his life, what he truly wanted from his final months. He refuses to reduce good questioning to a formula. Instead he offers a shift in attention, a handful of habits worth unlearning, and an appendix of nine practical exercises, from the question journal to the hostile reader test, for anyone who would rather practise than simply read about the practice.Short, wise and immediately useful, this is a book for managers and teachers, parents and partners, interviewers and researchers, and anyone who suspects their conversations could go deeper than they do. It will not hand you more answers. It will help you find the ones worth having. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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