Thread: GPS speak - will it change the way we say things?

The hamlet of Leyburn on the Darling Downs is a wonderful example. It is considered correct to pronounce it either Lee-burn or Lay-burn depending whether the speaker lives on the Warwick or Toowoomba side of the Clifton-Leyburn Road. I always call it Lee-burn as my rellies lived near Allora on the Warwick side.

The lady with the nasal North American voice who lives in my Tom-Tom does produce some entertaining pronunciations. She also likes to plan routes using freeways and major roads, and, I suppose, gets quite frustated with me when I use local knowledge and go the easiest way. I like to get her to plan a route even when I well know where I am going just to see what she comes up with. My wife was quite amused at "take the rotary" for a roundabout.

I just want NavWoman to get the message when I tell her she doesn't know what she's talking about, or even to just shut up when I tell her i know where I'm going and she can come back later. But she keeps going on with her "make a U turn when able" stuff!

At least she's got over the "take second exit" bizzo at over-a-bouts, now she says "at the roundabout continue straight"

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I just want NavWoman to get the message when I tell her she doesn't know what she's talking about, or even to just shut up when I tell her i know where I'm going and she can come back later. But she keeps going on with her "make a U turn when able" stuff!

At least she's got over the "take second exit" bizzo at over-a-bouts, now she says "at the roundabout continue straight"

Diana

"take the rotary, second exit"

"you are going the wrong way. Turn around where possible"

I take this second to mean "make an illegal u-turn across eight lanes and the median strip of the freeway".

Last night's effort. Cleveland Street = "cle-eee-vlind".

"Eye-pswich" was amusing. Toowoomba was something unintelligible. I wonder what she would make of Wooloongabba or Bungeworgorai?

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

... I wonder what she would make of Wooloongabba or Bungeworgorai?

It would be worth making the trips just the hear them!

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Last night's effort. Cleveland Street = "cle-eee-vlind".

Obviously not a Sydney resident or she would have said "Clevo". Does she say Red-fern or the local pronunciation "Redfrn".

Car I hired from Brisbane on a trip to the Gold Coast to see the Cats show Ablett he wasn't needed had a GPS. Kept telling me to turn left from an over pass onto the road several metres below me. Arriving at the Coast, it wanted me to turn right across a median, when I refused it kept telling me to do a U-turn despite the 'no U-turn' signs at every intersection.