Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>>like Schools and Unis generally don't accept things written in pencil
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>"Uni" is another word we don't use over here.  I assume it's short for
>"university", but we usually say "colleges", or include them in
>"schools", or say "universities" if we want to sound pretentious.
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Yes, I know that (we've had this discussion not too long ago and the MS
spellchecker marks 'Uni' as okay in English (Australian) but not in
English (US)), but it's hard not to call universities unis. 'University'
has too many letters, too many syllables and seems somewhat pretentious.

'College' is ambiguous, referring to  tertiary educational
institutions[1] that specialise in a particular area (the Victorian
College of the Arts, the Royal Australiasian College of Surgeons), high
schools (Eummemering Secondary College), or something closer to what
Americans would refer to as a college dorm I think ('I hate[2] so-and-so
because they live in one of the colleges').

[1]: Unis, TAFEs, and this sense of College. I do not know how to
translate TAFE outside of an Australian context. But they're more
practical[3] and less theoretical[4] than a Uni.
[2]: read: 'am jealous of'.
[3]: read: 'practically useless'
[4]: read: 'theoretically useless'

School normally refers to primary (~=elementary) and secondary (~=
junior and senior high, which are not separate here) schools. In the
context of a Uni, School refers to something in between Faculties and
Departments (though it seems they don't necessarily have Departments;
the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe Uni doesn't).

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>