Ownership of amiga.org?

[persia]

Then stop reading the "Other Operating Systems" forum, because it's about *gasp* Other Operating Systems!

Nobody is forcing you to read that forum, what's the point of trying to censor it?  Just read the Amiga Forums for goodness sake.  We all live in 2014, some of us want to talk about stuff that is relevant to 2014!

Hopefully the new owners will lift the standard on this forum.

Irrelevant talk about MS Surface Tablets and the 99 cent eBay nagger have really let this forum down in recent times.

[persia]

Perhaps the front page could show only new posts in the Amiga Forums and to get the whole site new posts you have to click "New Posts?"  I'd be ok with that.

[persia]

so if due to the new site owners is this now a Welsh website

It's a Kiwi website "fush n chops" and "sex" for six all the way.

[persia]

But why don't we have regional accents like the poms and yanks?  Yes there are the far north folk, but basically a person from Perth has very little difference in speaking to someone from Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane.  I can tell the difference but it's more word choice than accent.

It's a vowel thing.  The nuances of the vowel pronunciations (sounding) are learnt at a young age. Neither is right or wrong, just different.  Australian's (most) don't actually use the vowel soundings they learn as kids we "lazy tongue" them. "er" becomes "ah" at the end of words and the sounding for "i" changes based on what consonants it's between. eg: Hit(short i) a Six(ie sound).
I think I read somewhere that the NZ pronunciation of vowels was closer to 17th century English than English actually is now.  Dunno if it's true.
I certainly find it harder understanding the drawl from Nth QLD and NT than Kiwi. Ayee.(kiwi) or Ayee Mayte (Aussie)  

[persia]

They're a bit of over the top Occa, it's not Victorian per se, even though it takes place in Victoria.  They could be in WA and still sound the same.

@Persia

Off topic I know but no accents? All I can say is Kath & Kim and Sue & Pru! ;-)

TrevorD