and the internet.”American television has basically taken over our lives,” Lunn told Reuters.”While we’re getting their shows we’re losing our language — we never said ’24/7,’ ‘OMG’ and ‘whatever.'”In his fight to save the words and phrases of yore, such as when an Aussie bloke would stand back to let a lady walk in front of him and NIKE MERCURIAL VAPOR IX say “ladies first…in case of snakes,” Lunn has collected many unique Aussie-isms into a book, “Words Fail Me.”Recalling a time when television’s role in life was smaller, Lunn takes readers on a nostalgic journey from the 1950s to the 1970s, when “the blower” was a phone and a bachelor might be described as a “man who never finds out how many faults he has.”A former wire and newspaper journalist, Lunn has written several non-fiction tales of life in Australia’s northeastern Queensland state and his time as a correspondent covering the Vietnam War.He says he learned early in his writing career that the secret to capturing somebody’s character was not to describe how they looked, but what they said — and how.”To recapture other people and the time, I learned the best way to Soccer Cleats do that was describing how they talked,” he said.During the course of research into other books, Lunn would often wake up in the middle of the night and scribble a saying down in his bedside notepad, or raise a hand to stop someone in mid sentence because they had reminded him of a word from the past. He ended up