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Aussies are viciouzzzz

Categorised as Literature, Miscellaneous & tagged with aussie, funny, language, law.

They eat paper trees. They spit words like no tomorrow.

The Income Tax Assess­ment Act… now bulges at an unwanted world record of 5,000 pages. It has an unfriendly numbering system. Puzzle over the ponderous s 159ZZZZH.

5,000 pages? Like really, if it was Harry Potter I’d be fine with it. But Income Tax Assess­ment… Well, crazy Aussies certainly love their taxes. Try saying “s 159ZZZZH”:

1. section one five nine quadruple zed eich haych
2. section one five nine zed zed zed zed eich haych
3. section one five nine zzzzzzzzzzzz eich haych

Now imagine judges and politi­cians speaking with reference to that section in court or the parliament.

Try weighting the Cor­por­a­tions Act. It comes in at over 3 kgs… Compare that to the mere 300 gms of the Canadian statute.

For you Imperial people, 3 kg is approx­im­ately 6.61 pounds. I’m weak. I use 1.5 kg dumbbells. I could train myself buff with the Aus­tralian Cor­por­a­tions Act.

An Aus­tralian judge com­plained in the High Court of a sentence that went on for over 450 words of small print, spanning 25 lines. And it had no punc­tu­ation what­so­ever to assist the reader.

*sigh* Aussies.

They are abusing the English language! The paper! The trees! At least we kiwis don’t harm the envir­on­ment so much for what they call “sheep-shagging” in New Zealand.

NZ FTW.

Quoted extracts from Corkery J, Starting Law.