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Day: September 25, 2016

How do I address strangers in Australia?

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Posted in categories: English, Linguistics

Other respondents have covered this well (which is a benefit of me putting off replying to A2A’s!) I’ll just add some metacommentary. People of Quora who get me in their feed because they like me or something: do read the other responses. The egalitarian ideal of Australia is that we address each other as mate, […]