Australia vs. America...Can you spot the language differences?

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[betsuni]

1. Universal health care is a Democratic policy.

Democrats have been saying health care is a right and not a privilege for decades.

[certainot]

2. when we went there for 5 years the whole family got healthcare cards at the airport. fair dinkum

according to me mum

[The Jungle 1]

3. One trillion wasted.

Just imagine how much healthcare we could have provided with the one trillion dollars wasted on Afghanistan.
America we must be sure this never happens again. How do we do that?

[Roy Rolling]

4. Not the Same Way This Time

We won’t do it like Vietnam where the president flew away scot free. That’s the lesson, 45ii must face criminal justice.

And if he doesn’t go to jail, make him testify for 11 hours like Hillary. Tighten the screws on the gang leaders, send them away so their deplorable followers have no head. Make an example of 45ii and the criminal Republican gang.

And we all know, a fish rots from the head.

[Lonestarblue]

5. And the military wastes billions every year without accountability.

They don’t even know where it goes. I do agree with fiscal conservatives that at least some parts of the federal government are bloated. Over the decades since Reagan, it has been reconfigured to support the transfer of wealth to the ultra rich. That needs to change, but we don’t have politicians willing to do it because wealth drives too many of them.

[argyl]

6. Wait 25 years.

If it looks like our desire to engage in stealing other nation's resources under the guise of nation building is no longer agreeable to the American public maybe we're done with such tragic misadventurisms.

[JI7]

7. One doesn't have anything to do with the other. We could have still had health care

WITH the Afghanistan mess if it was just about money. And even without AFghanistan we wouldn't have had more than what we have now .

[Igel]

8. Both Americans and Australians call hurricanes "hurricanes' ...

and cyclones "cyclones." and typhoons "typhoons." Except that they're all actually tropical cyclones. "Cyclone" is both a specific and a generic designation.

https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/what-hurricane-typhoon-or-tropical-cyclone

If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph), then they are called:

"hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E)
"typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline)
"severe tropical cyclone" or "Category 3 cyclone" and above (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160°E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90°E)
"very severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean)
"tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean)

So if Hurricane Grace hit Mexico in the US news, it should have been the same in the Australian and Indian and Taiwanese news. Because of Grace's location. And we hear about typhoons and "tropcal cyclones" in the US press as well, just never for storms in the Caribbean.

That's your Saturday morning verbal nitpicking. Remember, follow the science.