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The country is done for (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Oneser@lemm.ee to c/australia@aussie.zone
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I'm all for inclusion of all people in our society. No one should be prejudiced for who they are.

BUT! Today I have to draw the line! Listening to the Play School alphabet song with my kid and it goes "A, B, C, D....X, Y, zed or zee". Since when is this blatant destruction of our national identity accepted?

I'll be picketing outside the ABC's head office from tomorrow and following that the education office until this travesty can be corrected! Who's with me?!

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[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wait until you hear what they did to the U.S. alphabet.

LMNOP is gone. They fucking killed it.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Huh?

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Basically the song got changed in elementary school from,

"ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRS TUV WX Y and Z(ee)"

to

"ABCEFG HIJK L M N OPQ RSTUV WXY and Z"

Basically they slowed it down

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

So does it no longer go to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

It "does", which makes it even worse.

Sorry for the mobile YT link, starts at 25 seconds

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVuk71UdIf8&t=27s&pp=2AEbkAIB

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Wow, that was...something. Completely dumps the rhyming "ee". If kids are having trouble with understanding elemeno, a better solution (IMO anyway, as someone who is not in any way an early learning educator) would be to just be more staccato with annunciating the l. m. n. o. peee.

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

What?! Noooooooooo!

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Close, but not quite. It's actually "L M N O P", but that's okay keep trying!! ;)

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