Australianisms & Regional Slang

I tried to make a coherent post about how in Canada, we call US colleges "universities", and US community colleges "colleges", but then I gave up and made this.

This pisses me off, it's like someone made it deliberately complicated, just like not using the metric system! What the fuck is up with that. Elementary > Middle > High > University. End of story.

I think i've said it before but, as a Latin American, it's very weird how in order to sound like you're fluent in English you have to speak in an American accent, even though Brittish accents are far more suited for the kind of pronunciations we're used to. Also, using certain words (like mate, bugger, malarkey) feels very odd or forced, even though it makes no sense since English isn't even my first language in the first place so it's not like i get to hear American English only at all times, sure we're more exposed to it but still.

I'll never for the life of me comprehend the reasoning behind removing the T sound from words, IT'S FIGHT-ERR NOT FIGH-RER, what the hell is a shor-ee? You mean a shorty? I can't bring myself to do it naturally, yet you have to do it or else it sounds like you have a huge accent, which is a huge turn off for Spanish speaking people for some reason.

In Latin America Ketchup is better known as tomato sauce (literal translation) or cátsup, sometimes KECHÚ.