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'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
Kate Burridge
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Kate Burridge
Age: 54
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Kathryn Burridge
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Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as I don't it can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.
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