If we’re going to improve the standard of spoken english, especially in Australia, then possibly the first place to start is with that vernacular affectionately referred to as ‘bogan’. In my opinion, it’s just plain lazy. Here are two classic examples.<\/p>\n
“I seen him coming.”<\/p>\n
“I knew that when I come here.”<\/p>\n
Strange. Unnecessary. Lazy. These are so easy to fix, and there is no excuse. Pity no one conjugates in school anymore, as that simple exercise would probably solve this growing problem.<\/p>\n
The correct phrases are easy, and anyone with an ounce of understanding of the language can see the errors a mile away.<\/p>\n
The first one should be “saw” – “I saw him coming.” Say it bogans. Now say it again.<\/p>\n
And for the second one, the correct past tense is “came” – “when I came here”.<\/p>\n
Kill the bogans, and revive the language people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If we’re going to improve the standard of spoken english, especially in Australia, then possibly the first place to start is with that vernacular affectionately referred to as ‘bogan’. In my opinion, it’s just plain lazy. Here are two classic examples. “I seen him coming.” “I knew that when I come here.” Strange. Unnecessary. Lazy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}