The dictionary meaning of consultation and what form it did or did not take place are important matters of deep disputation between Attorney-General George Brandis QC and insomniac Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson SC.
In this jolly book "misadventures in English" are highlighted in a most entertaining and humorous fashion . Author Michael Croker says more than 700 million jabbering individuals speak the language , some of it a bit scrambled in the process ,causing unintentional communication catastrophes.
In this jolly book "misadventures in English" are highlighted in a most entertaining and humorous fashion . Author Michael Croker says more than 700 million jabbering individuals speak the language , some of it a bit scrambled in the process ,causing unintentional communication catastrophes.
In a chapter headed Eating Your Words , it says food is a universal language but that it is a pity we ruin everything by making a pig's ear of describing it , and supplies examples from menus around the world .
Australia rates a listing in respect of misuse of language in a Canberra café offering DUMPING SOUP , which sounds repulsive . However, a steaming bowel -Oops!- bowl might just be the thing if you have just been dumped by the Prime Minister for making a mishmash of your ministerial responsibilities .
The off putting Canberra clanger is followed by a Thai offering : Curly Flower , General Chaos Chicken ( all the rage in the Coalition right now ) , Steamed fillet of new zeal ( New Zealand ) and orange roughy (a fish) , Fresh thousand year old eggs .
The off putting Canberra clanger is followed by a Thai offering : Curly Flower , General Chaos Chicken ( all the rage in the Coalition right now ) , Steamed fillet of new zeal ( New Zealand ) and orange roughy (a fish) , Fresh thousand year old eggs .
In a section giving examples of strange wording in CVs , one applicant boasted ... Failed bar exam with relatively high grades , a situation which does not apply to any staff in the Attorney-General's Department .
During the Senate Inquiry into the Gleeson / Brandis dispute, some Coalition members of the committee , dumpees, seemed to have difficulty expressing themselves in the Queen's English ," bullshit " uttered and bleeped on TV ; somebody reportedly brought a sleek NSW greyhound , named Lexicographer, on a leash into the hearing and it chased and ferociously savaged the slow moving northern rabbits as they came out of the warren , seemingly suffering from a mixture of myxomatosis and foot in mouth .
STREWTH!
In the above named lively column by James Jeffery in the Weekend Australian he mentioned the "title fight " between the law officers in the Senate inquiry, in which "the floridly blustering Coalition senator Ian Macdonald " came to the fore , and had to be pulled into line by the chairwoman , yet there was a "resumption of hostilities " . Jeffrey recalled the episode when Senator Macdonald entered the Senate wearing a hi-vis vest bearing the slogan "Australians for Coal", sent to him by the Minerals Council of Australia , which had caused his colleague Senator Heffernan to blow "a head gasket" .
Incidently, at the end of the ABC TV Insiders Talking Pictures segment , photographer Mike Bowers of the Guardian and cheeky Jeffrey dropped their daks and revealed smugglers which said , Back to you Barry !- the presenter of the top political show, Barrie Cassidy. Strewth! What next on the public broadcaster ?
