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mayoraasei) wrote2007-08-19 02:22 am
mayoraasei) wrote2007-08-19 02:22 am
language is the key to communication
People who know me probably knows how pedantic I am about English and writing in general.
Which is why I couldn't help but snigger at this paragraph in The Department of Immigration and Citizenship's media release:
The second associated challnge is the ageing of our population. We have an ageing population because two things are happening. One is we're living longer, which is a great outcome, the other is that we've not been reproducing ourselves for about 40 years. The combination of those factors means year by year, the average age of the population grows older and that's compounded by a third factor, namely that the last great demographic shift in Australia was the baby boom from the end of the Second World War.
Orz
Nope, there's been no children born for the last 40 years. The obstetricians and paediatrician department have been closed down, and Westmead Children's Hospital is now defunct and used as a storage facility for disused surgical masks.
Orz
(I know what they mean, but it's just a really awkward way of saying it.)
But wait! There's more!
More than 39,000 (80%) of the 2006-07 family stream were spouses, finances or interdependent.
Either my understanding of immigration policy is failing me, or there are no such things as finances seeking to get a permanent visa through the family scheme. Guardians, okay. Fiances, better. Financers, hmm. Finances??
Orz
Which is why I couldn't help but snigger at this paragraph in The Department of Immigration and Citizenship's media release:
The second associated challnge is the ageing of our population. We have an ageing population because two things are happening. One is we're living longer, which is a great outcome, the other is that we've not been reproducing ourselves for about 40 years. The combination of those factors means year by year, the average age of the population grows older and that's compounded by a third factor, namely that the last great demographic shift in Australia was the baby boom from the end of the Second World War.
Orz
Nope, there's been no children born for the last 40 years. The obstetricians and paediatrician department have been closed down, and Westmead Children's Hospital is now defunct and used as a storage facility for disused surgical masks.
Orz
(I know what they mean, but it's just a really awkward way of saying it.)
But wait! There's more!
More than 39,000 (80%) of the 2006-07 family stream were spouses, finances or interdependent.
Either my understanding of immigration policy is failing me, or there are no such things as finances seeking to get a permanent visa through the family scheme. Guardians, okay. Fiances, better. Financers, hmm. Finances??
Orz
no subject
challenge and aging?
no subject
Aging is the American spelling. It always looks odd to me ^^;;