Welcome to the digital age of Facebook, Twitter and all of those other American driven social media platforms, not to mention our US centric television. You can't escape and thus so the degradation goes on. Welcome indeed, welcome to the new norm!

The past participles of get, "gotten", is my pet hate. It is not used in English as the English speak it.

The American stuff seems so trashy until you watched the very dumbed down abc.

Too late too late, she cried as she waved her wooden leg. Or as the man with the wooden leg said, it's a matter of a pinion?

Ah Say ah think it might just be a little too late and reclaim ah own ossie way of speaking, larke ma ma spoke.

Ah say, ah do balieve we are on course to become the poor white trash in the really deep south of the southerrn states of the US of A. Where kids from impoverished neighborhoods, wear their caps on backwards and sing the star spangled banner with hand held on heart!

And grow even more obese as a consequence of too many Maccas, (one on every street corner) and too many servings of, would you like french fries with that!

As our own pollies sell the farm, the family silver and anything not nailed down? To our political masters as we wait for their permission to have a coherent and Aussie owned and operated energy industry! Or affordable housing? Our own banks?

Our banks? You surely don't mean those now owned in significan 50-60% part by the same four American hedge funds? Albeit with different spreads in the big four?

We're losing a lot more of far more significance than our colloquials or customs, but the country's traditional self reliance and our last vestiges of genuine unfettered independence!?

Why do you think we have an energy crisis and unable to sever our adictive reliance on coal? Peabody?
Alan B.

The author described himself as a 'researcher' but provides absolutely none to support his old man rant of nothingness. Yada yada yada...empty rhetoric of c/rap.