Auntie having a lend of us again
Hey, ABC Radio National News: the present participle from the verb to lend, is "lending", not "loaning", as any child knows.
Any child outside the good old USA, that is. Australians lend things, they don't loan them. They take a loan from a bank, because it's a noun.
Sorry, I know it's painful to some ears, but I'm determined to be relentless in my campaign to tackle the ABC's apparent determination to destroy Australian idiom and replace it with American. I don't intend to give up. There are bigger issues here than just words. One of them is the whole mindset of acceptance of American cultural imperialism and the hold that it has on the ABC. ABC is the last place that should be undermining Australian culture, but it's one of the ringleaders -- and I'm not the only one who is disturbed by it.
We should be proud of our own culture, and Auntie should show some pride too. From sea to shining sea ... from the Redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters, we won't give up our culture as easily as the ABC wants us to.
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Any child outside the good old USA, that is. Australians lend things, they don't loan them. They take a loan from a bank, because it's a noun.
Sorry, I know it's painful to some ears, but I'm determined to be relentless in my campaign to tackle the ABC's apparent determination to destroy Australian idiom and replace it with American. I don't intend to give up. There are bigger issues here than just words. One of them is the whole mindset of acceptance of American cultural imperialism and the hold that it has on the ABC. ABC is the last place that should be undermining Australian culture, but it's one of the ringleaders -- and I'm not the only one who is disturbed by it.
We should be proud of our own culture, and Auntie should show some pride too. From sea to shining sea ... from the Redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters, we won't give up our culture as easily as the ABC wants us to.
Tagged: scose, abc, australia, australian, english, language, radio, grammar, spelling, pronunciation, journalism, radio+national
Pip Wilson posted item above at 11:10 AM | Permalink
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1 Comments:
I read your blog often and I want to point out that there is no ABC Radio National News department. There are newsrooms in all states. On the hour Radio National as a radio network switches to as many as 10 different news readers reading localised and national stories that are written by many different journos and checked by many different news editors.
One difference is on the weekend news reads are filled by a national reader generated from South Australia I think.
Just something to note when making a criticism of RN's often high quality output.
Gus
a reader, radio listenter and sometimes journo/producer
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