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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:05:30 +0200
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:44:27 +0200, Silvano
<Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> wrote:

>Peter Moylan hat am 17.09.2024 um 01:32 geschrieben:
 
>> That reminds me of an incident in an earlier job of hers, when she
>> worked in a psychiatric hospital. A small town north of Newcastle had
>> had no doctor for a long time, but Australia has a policy of getting
>> immigrant doctors out to rural areas, so they finally got someone. That
>> doctor sent one of his patients down to the psych hospital for
>> assessment. The clinical notes said that he was obsessed with attacking
>> birds.
>> 
>> When interviewed, one of the first things he said was
>> "Stone the crows, I don't know why they sent me here."
>
>
>I assume that "stone the crows" is a common idiom in that part of Australia.
>1) What does it mean?
>2) Do native speakers of other varieties of English know and use that idiom?

Known to me in South Africa, but I thought it was of Cockney origin
(and when I first went to the UK I thought the place was full of
Australians talking Strine). 

>By the way, congratulations to Australia. Here in Germany we are very
>slowly starting to understand that interpreters should be provided to
>patients and hospital cleaners or the patient's minor children are
>definitely not the best solution, especially when talking e.g. about
>sexual diseases or a life-threatening cancer.


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