If the WTS started off in Australia, do you think they would be different?

by inquirer 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  Stephanus

  Plenty - including mine!
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  Lehaa

  yep, sowwy.
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  Stephanus

  according to the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies the accepted English spelling is now Didjeridu.

  http://www.wadidge.com.au/didgeridoo-names.html

  I rest my case!
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  Stephanus

  yep, sowwy

  I grew up always spelling it the other way, too - however, I'm in a very Aboriginal sensitive environment, so have been aware of the revised spelling for some time.

  Stephanus,

  of the "my mother's got a killer boomerang and isn't afraid to use it" class.
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  ozziepost

  The Australian Institute of what???????????????? Who the hell are they? never heard of'em.
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  cyborgVision

  Yeah, of course

  literature would be delivered in f*ck truck
  
  Prayers would finish with g'day
  
  An elder would be called smart arse
  
  Goat-like ones would be called nob-suckers
  
  Sheep-like ones would be called dipshit
  
  And everyone would practice tonsil hockey
  
  Though young yobbos would be encouraged to if in doubt use love glove
  
  Between the songs we'd all rush to thunderbox
  
  Everyones happiness would be really unreal
  
  And we'd hope to achieve the state known as diddly-squat
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  purplesofa

  If it did start in Australia, now that is one trip to Headquarters I would make!!!!

  purps
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  Stephanus

  The Australian Institute of what???????????????? Who the hell are they? never heard of'em.

  You haven't?? They're my authority on EVERYTHING!
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  Lehaa

  I grew up always spelling it the other way, too - however, I'm in a very Aboriginal sensitive environment, so have been aware of the revised spelling for some time.

  ok that's not fair, I can't spell at the best of times, now they're changing the spelling of stuff without checking with us first. How am I going to teach my kids to spell.

  God help them
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  ozziepost

  that is one trip to Headquarters I would make

  It wouldn.t be so good, purps! As I write this a mist is forming over the floodlight grounds giving the whole prison-style complex a yellow eerie feel about it. All is still, nothing is moving. It's....well, very unAustralian!

  During daytime you can see that it's a heavily fortified complex complete with sentry box at the main entrance. Oh, that's airconditioned but that's the only concession to what is regarded as Australian.

  In short, there's no indication it would be much different. Australia seems to have absorbed much of American culture, rather than British. This applies to new religious movements too. Even in evangelical circles of the Australian kind there's many who favor the books and programs of Bill Hybels and Rick Warren.