Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "IWrocker"
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The UNIMOG has often been well represented in Dakar Rallies. Both competing and even more so as support team and spares transport..
Concerning arid looking Southern France it is in many section much like Spain. An area that has become well known for "Spagetti Western" movies to film the many "westerns" emulating Mexico and southern USA.
You have become captivated by Unimog as I was on my first work visit in Stuttgart area in 1979. Seeing many on farms, city and highway maintence, even one on tram rails, and a fire brigade at my work company site, shared as local village fire brigade, a service offered free by my employer to the community.
I had been so close to buying one second hand, that work was disposing of, that could have been mine for mere DM10,000, which at that time was under 6 months of my wages.
At that time sadly it would have been an expensive mistake. Then there was NO RIGHT HAND VERSION, never designed or manufactured until much later , late 1980s from memory, when Australian Army bought some. At the time any Left Hand Drive vehicles could only get short term permit to be used in Australia, before either needing to be converted to Right Hand, or exported out or scrapped. This applied to many test cars I drove for my job that were left hand drive. Yes I have spent thousands of kilomters in various countries driving various vehicles with steering arranged opposite to normal traffic, a situation that you can get used to, but causes many drivers BIG problems.
As no parts existed at all for right hand conversion it would have been a VERY expensive custom conversion with many costly engineering verification and certification of conversion costs to be able to register for legal street use. A little less for only private property use, say on a large farm or outback cattle/sheep station which might even have been possible without conversion though thatvwas a requirement even to import a vehicle into Australia.
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Aborigines would, like most societies have invented monstrrs to scare children to obey directives to not stray from home where adults can make sure they remain safe. So I take most "monsters" as pure myth.
Some like the black panther are a maybe as apparently a US navy person did bring a large cat on shore , as detected. On the otherhand having seen some feral cats, they were large not panther size, but on short view from some distance, could have been judged larger than real. There certainly have been sightings and some photos that seem credible, but never conclusive including actual size. Some farm stock does get taken, but whether panther, feral cats, feral dogs,dingo or in the case of lambs, calves by Wedge Tail Eagles is not certain. At least all those are known predators taking stock.
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Ian, I am no longer inclined to catch snakes, at least not venomous ones. Yet if forced to, for example safety of children, would still with confidence go to the task of trying to catch one. At 71 years age I am not as fast or nimble as I was in my teens.
Originally I kept lizards as pets, snakes were forbidden by mum except years later a non venomous python would have been allowed. But while hunting lizards and goanna, I did come across snakes at times, and as a result did learn catching and handling them. Over years I would have caught a dozen or so venomous snakes, including Brown red belly black, copperhead, tiger green tree snake (rear fang lower toxic venom), as well a few non venomous snakes. About 12 years ago north of Alice Springs, I could have made a serious error, driving along I saw a large snake as it slide into grass by the roadside. I stopped hoped out and searched. It was a central Taipan snake so effectively the most dangerous bar possibly the dessert Brown snake. But Taipan are very attack prone. I had no effective catch stick and gave up after 15min as I could not locate it, all time wandering around in knee-high grass and bushes.
A few past tales....
In 1960s I had a friend in Boy Scouts, who was naturally immune to all but a couple of less common snakes. He kept and showed snakes and even demonstrated at times what a bite marked looks like, by letting one bite a hand or arm. He just washed the site, and as precaution gave a small dose of antiveneen, not that he suffered more than mild soreness maybe vomiting without. Still crazy as far as I was concerned. He apparently survived being bitten at age of 4months, and before 5 years of age several more times. By 10 he was barely affected if bitten.
I possibly saved a number of people once. At our annual Agricultural show, there are also fun park and usual entertainment show tents. One was the SNAKE PIT, where a large canvas pit, like a moderate swimming pool was setup with lots of snakes in this pit. A person was demonstrating/showing various snakes. I payed and stood among a crowd of public at pit side. The demonstrator was about to show milking a snake of venom. He had his little glass tube, stretched aa thin rubber over it, then from a closed box, extracted a Tiger snake, about 2 1/2 ft long. With snake in one hand and glass tube he swung around for people to see and hear what he was going to show. THEN DISASTER, the snake somehow pulled free and laughed over the pit edge, into the crowd, right beside me. I without any intentional action, pure automatic, dipped down to belly level hooked my arm under the falling snake, and flung upwards, the snake arced over the demonstrator's head and landed back in to pit behind him. Had that snake fallen between all those legs in the panicked crowd there likely (certainly) would have been several bites. As it was, no one suffered more than a big fright. The demonstrator stared at me as I stood smiling. People were rushing from the tent area. He was very concerned that nobody was bitten and specifically asked me if I was OK, looking me over. To my reassurance calmed, to recapture the definitely venom potent snake back to its box, as I assume most of the pit snakes were actually well milked of venom or even largely defanged. Worth noting in following years the snake pit no longer had milking demonstration offered or performed, I think it was considered too hazardous as an environment given that near disaster. Strangely I did not even get a thank you. But likely the operators of that snake pit were too shocked by what had almost happened that their mind was in other thoughts. I went on with the rest of the show visit.
During fishing by a Gippsland river, I almost stepped on a large Tiger snake, and as a number of others were also fishing there candidates children running around I decapitated the snake and hung it visible on the back of dad's 4WD, as warning that people must be careful and many children were then kept close by parents not running around the high grass and grass tussocks. Some packed up and left. But that area of river banks and durrounding flood Plains, IS PRIMARY HOME for these Tiger snakes on the way home many cars delayed passing and stared at the snake dangling on the rear of our vehicle.
On the whole for most people they will never ever see a snake Auustralia is safe to visit!
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Basements are extremely rare in Australia.
Two story houses are becoming much more common. Partly as land prices are rising sharply, compared with actual house cost. Not unusual for land to go into $700,000 and up, while single level house could be under $300,000 to $400,000. Having afforded the land similar house cost allows a much roomier home, also often a multi car garage at ground level, makes living space above desirable. Still it is also a bit status driven, and especially among recent Asian migrants. These double "palaces" are in common terms referred to as ".Mac Mansions" often built replacing older single level houses, and often occupying all the land with virtually no garden, while garden front and rear yards are/were to norm so far. Asian often wipe out all bushes and trees of established properties they buy leaving at most low flower garden edges.
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Have been involved with Opals since end og 1960s when my father operated a petrol station in Adelaide for a couple of years. There he befriended a number of Opal miners, who happened to visit his petrol station/mechanical workshop. Among a good business was getting usable secondhand tyres. The opal miners due to the sharp rocks and rough roads regularly were destroying tyres in as little as a few days even several in one day, punctured by sharp roots, slashed and/or punctured by sharp rocks. No matter if old or new, so old tyres were more than adequate.
To that end dad would buy for a few dollars any second hand tyres from other workshops, if not damaged, had even minimal tread, and were usable fir a few thousand km or until damaged. Once a month or two, some miner would roll in with a large, even twin axel, with frame cage, and load up the huge stack of tyres, and pay double what dad payed. Real true recycling in action.
Anyway he got multiple invitations to visit the opal diggings, and finally visited Andamooka field. There he was allowed to go through an open cut by the miner he visited. An open cut then cost close to $100,000, to get a bulldozer remove top soil layer, say typical 20m wide and 50m long, and when reaching suited rock base, the miner would walk behind the dozer until seeing evidence of reaching potential or actusl opal layers. Then stop digging by dozer and start manual mining. In this open cut the owner had already found near $750,000 of precious opal so well payed back the open cut, which were not always successful. My dad and his friend were allowed free roaming and hand pick digging for 2 days. They found maybe 1 kg , 2.2lb, of semi precious opal, several ounces precious opal. Several kg worthless opal material with no colour, called potch. Once rock my dad got would today sell for thousands of dollars it is a several mm layer of opal civering one end of the rock chunck, area nearly 10 sq inches. This is among my present rock collection. They were allowed to keep anything they found while the owner took the two days to rest. By the way in the following week he found more than $200,000 opal.
In later years we setup a polishing rig in our garage, where opal and other gems were cut and polished.
Also I had several light aircraft trips, with a coworker of my mother, who with commercial license, rented a plane fir a week or so a few times each year to fly tourists to the main opal fields. Sometimes he had one spare seat, and offered it to me at half the price of the standard tourist price. I even sat co plilot seat, and even flew the aircraft a few times, while he chatted with his guests. I visited Andamooka, Coober Pedy both in SA and White Cliffs NSW. One one Andamooka trip I dreamt to buy some rough opal, and took $250 expecting to get some nice pieces. Only the lowest priced bags of pieces were $3000 and up. The most costly bag I was shown ran to over $50,000. Very disappointed and dejected I went back to the accomodation, and even mistakenly did not buy a jar full of pieces offered by a old miner looking for beer money, only wanted $20, and I foolishly did not buy it thinking to keep the full $250 planned incase I could get a deal still. That old timer flogged the jar for $5 at the bar.
I did fossick a few bits on roadway and dirt piles around town. But our accomodation for the tourists was at a guest house run by Rudi Duke, also known as Andamooka Opal King, reputed to have upto tons stashed to prevent price collapse of opal trade. He ran some secrete mines in deep desert, where he travelled for upto a week, observing to prevent being followed, then vanish for a month to reappear, travelling again days to mislead any person trying to follow him. Carrying back as much as 100kg that he progressively sold to tourists cutting opals himself or via daughter working in Adelaide as a proffessional opal cutter and rough material to intrrnational buyers flying in to the opal fields. Some days Andamooka airfield, jokingly with a large Andamooka International Airport sign would have several hundred aircraft coming and going. Rudi took pity on me and on the morning of departure, he offered a small glass bottle/jar with really prime opal for my $250. The pilot a week later let me know the bottle had previoudly had a pen label of $2500, and Rudiverased a zero off the end. It has one piece that could polish teo sizable opal cabochon, domed oval shaped gem that each could exceed $10,000. The entire bottle contents could reach near $50,000 once cut and polished.
Over year years to 2000, I visited these opal fields many times travelling as part of my car testing work, and holiday travel by 4WD. Have picked up pieces especially in Coober Pedi where we often worked from Motel accomodation. In the garfen and around parts of the motel room carpark where buyers rented rooms while buying, good pieces were lying around. Waste smaller stuff often swept out of rooms or thrown away as not bought potch much still having good appearance.
Many of my opal pieces arecalso moderately common seashell fossils where the shell has been replaced by the opal silicate material these look so nice with flashes of colour while being distinct seashell shapes
I have cut and polished hundreds of opals mostly sent as presents to relatives in Germany. One aunt having a watch repaired was wearing a necklace with about 12mm oval cabochon opal, rather cheap fitting and chain but really nice opal. The jewler/watch repair manager asked to have a closer look. With only a few minutes to look he made an offer of over Dmark 5000 (today a value equivalent of nearer EU13000) and said even possibly more if he could have a few days to assess it better. My aunt was stunned, never realised its value just that it was a beautiful stone sent by a nephew from Australia. She sadly was then afraid to waer it as was previously frequently done. It ended in a jewel box with her wedding ring and other valuables. On her passing these went to the two daughters, who sold the valuables, but I have no info how much. These opals all would have had values totalling a sizable amount maybe enough to buy a house. To me it was the joy of creating these things of beauty.
I of course have many other gems and semi precious stones and still have much raw material, though have not done anything since before 2000. I need to unbury the work space from garage clutter.
Might try to send a piece of good looking potch , sadly not precious premium opal, in a parcel just now being put together to send.
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Heating/cooling the entire house is extremely wasteful, energy consuming and polluting.
Better to only heat and cool actually occupied sections of the home. Normally that would involve the living room, and in extreme weather bedroom's for part of the day like into the night. Other areas only in special needs arising occasionally.
The home I live in, for past 62 years, has NEVER had A/C and the only permanent heating installed was a lounge room gas heater, with airflow fan. That however has been defective and not used for over 25 years. Now depending on season an electric heater-fan, or in hot summer a airfan unit. Other rooms can use smaller electric-fan heaters if needed and occupied. In hot summer for say 38°C nights a small fan or pedestal fan can be used in other areas. Unusually bedrooms rarely have heating used at all, and hot conditions a small personal fan, even only USB powered one is mostly used. Hot water is an ondemand flow through unit not storage hot water tank.
It is amazing how low energy use is compared to more typical over heated/cooled homes our life has been. Comfort is improved acclimatising to prevailing conditions and dressing to suit the conditions. Means not expecting to sit in T shirt and shorts mid winter or rugged up in sweater or hoody for summer. Reasonable clothing for the conditions. Actually minimal indoor outdoor means only adding jackets for winter outdoors, and sun protection in summer going outside.
Our winter at worst has frosty mornings, with 5°C to 15°C winter range for almost all days, with some warmer sunny days too. Summer tends mid 20°C to over 40°C , with short periods even remaining over 35°C overnight. So especially winter is not so extreme in the city.
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Big problem for same size, same colour banknotes is the ease of mistaking the value note being passed in less ideal light or dirt state and especially for people with vision issues. Want to pass a $1 but given size and colour are the same actually paying with a $10 or worse $100, because in the dim light, or as a set of notes handed, or just in hurry hand the wrong value over. Made far more a possibility if vision impaired, even wearing glasses might be enough.
Similar can trick a person receiving a set of notes, example fail to note one or more actual $1 included in place of $10 . Or maybe in hurry or not having correct glasses on. With sizes and colours differing that mistake possibility is very much reduced.
These Euro notes are like the well known Australian notes, plastic, and more durable. Many features are like the Australian notes, plus they have made own security features, made possibly by the Australian developed process of coloured plastic notes.
Also like current Australian notes, I believe the Euro notes now also have varied number of dimples, for easy identifying by touch for vision impaired people, who as mentioned above already benefit from size and colour differences too.
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Being totally nomadic, tribal groups totally dependant on walking, it was largely tribal languages, restricted to local area that the group travelled in. With possibly some shared language elements to neighboring groups. Australia had no large animals used for transport and riding. All being walking around areas with water and food resources detrrmining to large extent area a given group of families covered in the necessary nomadic life.
Unlike most cultures around the world with farming, trade and travel supported by animals domesticated, crops grown and riding of some animal, be it horse, donkey, oxen, deer, elephant etc. Those societies had more commonly widely used language, shared over major national and trans national, rather than almost tribal boundary. Aboriginals as for jungle tribes, the isolation of family/tribal groups leads to unique multiple laguages, with some commonalities but large differences too. Far apart groups not able to communicate except on limited basis.
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Ian, many years before these Blue Ring Octopus were even known to be dangerous, I had one close to handling it.
I was snorkelling off a local beach some 15 km, near enough 10 miles, from home where we often went to go swimming on our Port zphilip Bay at Melbourne.
On this occasion I was ranging from beach to near 0.5km from shore. At one point I saw a medium Scallop shell on the sand in about 3 m water, 10ft, these are like the SHELL petrol shape with one side flat. It was clear that it was a dead scallop, but both halves still joined at the hinge. I simply grabbed it and to keep hands free just tucked it into my swim togs. After some half hours or so, chasing fish diving fir other shells, I returned to the beach towels up near the bushes at top of the beach, where my sister and cousin were relaxing too. Sorted some of the shells, and found the scallop shell was tightly held shut. After some effort I got it prised open. It contained a small octopus that initially did not look all that special streaky greeny-brown regions with some splotches. I poked at it with my finger. Suddenly these bright blue rings appeared. Normally I would easily be tempted to take the little creature and handle it. I showed the beautiful blue colours to my sister and cousin. Then realised I had it out of the water fir a number of minutes and it was in hot dry sunny conditions, at least above 30°C to 40°C. So instead decided it best to return it to the water. With its arms reaching at my fingers holding the flipped open shell I went down to the water front, many people and children there in the water let it swim away in the shallows among the crowd.
Some 5 years later a scuba diver among a group climbing up a ladder from the water at a tall jetty reported to one of his friends that something bit him as he held onto a pier pile at the ladder base. He died within minutes on the pier, as breathing became paralysed. Investigations of the following weeks and autopsy determining a extreme venom as having killed him, this little octopus was isolated as venomous in the extreme. That was a NEW discovered hazard creature to add to our list.
The area we went swimming is within a mile or two of a rocky stretch of Bay coastal area of our bay, that apparently is a major habitat of these Blue Ring Octopus, a coastal area of over 15 miles, with small beach bays where many go swimming, between Frankston and Dromana on what here is part of the Mornington Peninsula . Almost certainly this Octopus exists from Victoria up the east coast to Queensland.
I suspect I was close to death. Had that octopus exited the shell while tucked into my swim togs, or if I had handled that harmless looking little octopus, I would have been close to 100% likely to be bitten. That blue ring pattern is its extreme danger warning, under stress.
By the way in the same times, I regularly gather Mussels for fishing bait from the pylons of the Frankston jetty, swimming out near the outer end with a Hessian sack pulling a kilo or two of mussels into the sack by bare hands. These octopus also exist among these mussel collections growing on the pylons. Never did see any there though.
So yes among catching venomous snakes, scorpions, spiders even being bitten by a fat female Red Back Spider weeding in the garden, catching 5 inch Centipedes. I have experienced a Blue Ring Octopus when they were even unknown as dangerous.
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On one of the GM test car hot test trips at Kununurra WA, in 1990s, a group of the test team went down to a large river crossing, where a large Goanna was sitting at the river edge.
The two Japanese engineers were "Ooh Ahh" about this large one about the same as the 6:40 one at edge of the concrete.
I handed my DSLR camera to the one engineer, and proceeded to catch that Goaana. ThecAussie guys all said I must be crazy. Well maybe, but having caught others before I was confident. On first attempt I had it behind its head and at base of tail but had to straddle the body. But they are VERY strong and it put me off balance and the claws where heading to my legs. I had to shift a bit and it broke free.
I tried holding, but it slipped free and ran around a small bush. I went again and had it lifted a bit off the ground damp heavy and its tail tried whipping around. As the Japanese were snapping photos on their cameras I had to drop it again. On third try the Goanna had enough at broke my grip again but this time raced about 80 to 100m away where it sat hissing furiously.
All agreed that was enough, the Japanese were so impressed that I would take on such a Dragon as they expressed it, the Aussies just said I must be out of my mind.
Other than one minor scratch and annoying the Goanna no harm done.
Yet do strongly recommend that without experience DO NOT TRY THE SAME they can do very serious injury.
Some say these monitor lizards have some venom, but it is a disputed issue. They do however definitely carry a horrid does of bacteria in the jaws and teeth, that can cause extreme serious infection. Animals bitten may take days to die from the septic wound and their teeth do very nasty bite wounds. The claws create bad deep wounds and the whipping tail can be very painful leaving bruises at best and even broken skin wounds at worst. Smaller animals can have broken bones or be killed by the tail blow. I think for us humans could break fingers or possibly even wrist or ankle.
Now being some 25 years older, and likely slower I might well decide to leave it alone not try to grab it. In long past I have chased and caught several smaller, mainly, Goanna and in some cases had them trying to climb small trees, and grabbing their tail as they scurried up, even had them jump and run down my back leaving some scrappes through the T shirt, and denim jacket. Largest I ever handled was a big near 3m road victim hit by at least one car, bleeding from its mouth. I stopped and dragged it, it was too heavy to try to lift, off the road into the scrub. Hoping that it may possibly survive, as reptiles do seem tough to kill, at least not have it mashed into the road as cars and trucks kept running over it.
Impressive creatures and nice to see in real life.
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Lake Argyle is a huge man made water storage originally established for developing far north WA as a cotton growing region. It receives huge water volume from the heavy Monsoon rains of our 'Wet Season', our summer time in far north areas. The rain can dump many inches of rain each day and particularly overnight for months from November to March/April. The huge rainfall amount is typical in tropics nearing equator . Southern US and northern Mexico are very dry more like central Australia most of the year. But admittedly those areas do also get heavy rain at times, as probably do the southern US and near parts of Mexico. Just your areas have recently severe drought. Lake Argyle has many years of water stored, and would not likely run low even in decade long no rain, but currently is too full to store more.
Located at Kununurra on one of the huge rivers draining the enormous wet season rainfall. It covers an area probably larger than some US states. The river gorge below the dam has Salt Water Crocodiles, so probably not advisable to swim in. The river also has good fishing for the ever popular Barramundi fish.
Sadly the cotton industry failed due to insect pests. As for many regions of motocross, they become target of massive insect infestation. These days the area around Kununurra is a major fruit and vegetable growing area, irrigated by plentiful water from this lake Argyle.
The Argyle name has also become world renown for the large diamond mine, sadly now I understand effectively exhausted, that lies not far from Kununurra. At its peak this mine was yielding as much gem diamond as all South African mines together. Especially great was the supply of pink diamonds. Also among the hardest diamonds in the world. I realise few recognise that diamonds have a huge range of hardness depending how deep they formed in the magma before ejecting in the volcanic pipes leaving them at near surface. The hardness of the Australian diamonds is such that cutting the diamonds needs to use other Australian diamond, the Afrucan diamonds is too soft and dies not scratch the Australian. Some Russian diamonds can work but on the whole also softer.
Much of this volcanic deposit has actually eroded long ago, likely washing diamonds down rivers into the Timor Sea off the northern coast, and maybe even some buried ancient river deposits. There are hopes that other such volcanic pipes will be found in the area and be mined.
Note worthy is that the region is known as "The Kimberlys" because the region looked so similar to the Kimberly area in South Africa. Well not really surprising as before separated by plate tectonic shifts, both were once together on one giant landmass. Thus also not surprising both areas have diamond deposits.
Other major tourist attraction included the famous Bungle Bungle 'Beehive mounds'
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NOTE: internet speed is Mega BIT per second, not BYTE. A byte is 8 bits, and protocol overhead means data rate in bytes falls a little under 10 times slower than the BIT rate.
A common misinterpretation of MBPS. Data streams are defined by bit rates,, formerly refered to as BAUD rate, which is really defining rate at which signal state can change per second.
In olden times it was the actual voltage switching rate, like the mechanical switch. As phone lines had wider bandwidth, tone encoding allowed faster rates by encoding data as different frequencies, so data rate, Baud, pushed 300, 1200, and faster. Ultimately such trickery used multiple frequency channels, to push Baud rates to 38.4kBaud and higher. On modern internet the data is again back to using the digital speed of the channel, the maximum supported rate that voltage changes or in optical fibre the light pulses can change. In the case of USB 2, 480Mbit/s, USB 3 at 5Gbit/s, now extending upwards 10 or 15 Gbit/s, similar for other specialised cable channels. New 5G telephony, by using frequencies in high Gigahertz allow also data speeds 1Gbit/s. WiFi too can support or approach such fast rates.
The actual data transfer in order to code many different characters is formed from multiple bits. There are many character coding schemes, But ASCII is presently most common and is commonly 8 bits (7 bits basic, but extended set 8 bits). The data stream has protocol bits and charcters added. For modern language support there are also longer Unified character encodings using 16 bits, but for most data schemes one still uses byte, 8 bits, as the unit data.
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Kangaroo motion seems unique, but...
No doubt you have seen the modern atheletes with curved springy blades attached to their feet and thereby achievong higher speefs with lower energy required running. Inspired by the efficiency observed on kangaroos and its relatives. The motion recovers considerable energy in each step, as the springy nature stores impact energy to release into the next stride, at the same time absorbing considerable of the shock in each landing step minimising damage to body for harshness in each step. Precisely the body straons and long term damage suffered by many, in joints and spine from the effect of jogging and running on hard surfaces. At same time also compemsating for uneven surfaces quite an amount.
To the kangaroo provides far longer distance per step while running than purely provided by leg length.
There are other animals uding somilar benefits springbock, antelopes, ostrich, emu, even rabbits and hares to quite an extent, all aiding survival.
Also unique is that Australia has no natural HOOFED animals. Far less damaging to fragile ecology, hoofs tear up the ground considerably, and becomes very evident in Australian agriculture of sheep and cattle, and damage in mountains by brumby (feral) horses and those in farming.
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English unlike almost any other language must predominantly be learned by exceptions, rather than uniform structure rules. Sadly it is a mish mash of many other other languages, but worse has even distorted the original base for many words. In doing so the original structuring is lost and rules break as different origins differ in applicable laws. One that trips up many other language users is (excessive?) Using double negatives. Very confusing "Should you not be doing ... instead of ..."
Spelling must learn specific words rather than word structures. Then there is confusing pronouncing different words identically, TO, TOO, TWO, and inconsistent almost identical spelled words, TOMATO and POTATO.
Australia and US both have made further distortions to original english, even replacing meanings of some.
Not to say other languages do not have issues. German is well known for compounding words, to create new words, ever longer in form. The US probably more than others seem to use ever more abreviations in place of the full words, however a few Letters strung together, need context or in special group knowhow, for understanding to even hope the get the right intended meaning. Many abbreviations are having different meaning for different groups and topic context. Can lead to serious mis understanding, even wrong results.
Further by modern TV, Film, and Internet many English and foreign words are slipping into daily usage of many other languages, just by frequent exposure or specic clearer one word conveying meaning by less than lengthy wording of the original. Even product namibg and advertising is heavily mixing languages.
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