Started by #328929 at 15,Oct,13 08:47
 | what language (or languages) do you speak? I know it may seem like a strange subject for this site but think about it, it's not. so many men and women from all over the world visit here and language barriers keep everyone from being able to talk to everyone. as for me I speak English and I'm learning Japanese. |
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Good for you.
I applaud your decision to learn that language because languages must survive. The Europeans fucked up the world but you and other people like you are there to prove that diversity in humanity won't die.
I'm European myself but I'm really really happy for your efforts.
Thank you.
Нslensku Ensku og smб н Dцnsku....
Denne typen rust trenger ikke е sandblеses; den kan derimot fjernes med litt шvelse. En kos og et kjжrtegn nеr du gjшr det riktig, og kanskje et lett dask pе stumpen hvis du skriver feil?
That wasn't difficult, was it? No doubt everyone here understood perfectly. If not, I can always repeat it, just a bit louder.
(French letters.
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You gotta see this . strine.org.uk/Dict.html
MEANING IN PLAIN ENGLISH
HOW THE AUSSIES USE IT...
"avago"
Have a go
"Avago, ya mug" (Have a go, you mug)
"barbie"
Barbecue
"Throw a yabbie on the barbie"
"ankle biter"
young ****
"She has an ankle biter to feed"
"banana bender"
Queenslander...because they grow lots of bananas in Queensland
"He's a banana bender"
"battler"
One who struggles for a living
"What a tough battler!"
"beaut"
beautiful
"That's a beaut...!"
"billy"
Tin container used for boiling water to make tea
"Can you pass the billy?"
"billabong"
Waterhole in semi-dry river
"And his ghost may be seen roaming at the billabong" (from "Waltzing Matilda)
"bickie"
biscuit
"Let's have a bickie..!"
"bloke"
Man, used like "guy" in the US
"That bloke...!"
"blowie"
Pesky Australian blow fly
"There's a loadful of blowies out today"
"bludger"
scrounger
"You dole bludger" is one who lives off social security payouts
"BYO"
Bring Your Own drink to a restaurant
"It's a BYO only"
"Bonzer"
Terrific
"That's a bonzer ...!"
"Bottle Shop"
Liquor shop
"Let's drop by the Bottle Shop"
"Bull dust"
Bullshit
"What a load of bull dust...!"
"Bunyip"
The Australian equivalent to the mythical "Yeti/Bigfoot". Lives in a billabong.
"Bunyip, Bunyip, Bunyip...!" (if you ever see one)
"bush"
The countryside
"Let's go to the bush..."
"bushranger"
Outlaw, highwayman
"Ned Kelley - the bushranger"
"cask"
Boxed bag of cheap wine
"Let's get a cask at the bottle shop"
"chook"
Chicken
"There's a chook in the fridge"
"chunder"
To vomit
"I feel as I'm going to chunder"
"crooked"
Sick
"I'm feeling real crooked..."
"Crissie"
Christmas
"Where will you be, this Crissie?"
"dag/daggy"
Mild term for fool or unfashionable person
"What a dag..."
"daks"
trousers
"Where's my pair of daks?"
"Digger"
Australian soldier, or any old male character
"He was a digger... in WW2"
"dinkie die"
The truth
"That's dinkie die, I swear..."
"dingo"
Australian native wild dog
"He's as wild as a dingo..."
"dinkum"
Genuine or honest
"That's real fair dinkum..."
"dunny"
Toilet
"Excuse me, where's the dunny?"
"esky"
Cooler
"Let's bring an Esky to the picnic"
"footy"
Australian football
"Let's go to the footy this weekend..."
"garbo"
Garbage collector
"The garbo will take it away..."
"good on ya"
Well done or "Good for you" in the US
"Great job...good on ya"
"greenie"
A conservationist
"He's a greenie..."
"grog"
Alcoholic drink
"He's had too much grog..."
"Kiwi"
A New Zealander"
"He's a Kiwi..."
"knackered"
Tired
"I'm really knackered today...!"
"mate"
Friend (does not mean spouse"
"G'day, mate"
"milk bar"
Small general store
"Go get some bickies at the milk bar"
"mozzie"
Mosquito
"Bloody mozzies...!"
"ocker"
Australian male of crude manners
"He's a real ocker of a bloke"
"oodles"
Plenty
"Oodles of noodles..."
"Pom/Pommie"
English person
"He's a Pommie"
"Pissed"
Drunk (not angry, as in American)
"I think he's totally pissed, now"
"poof/poofter"
Male homosexual (derogatory)
"What a poofter..."
"ratbag"
Trouble maker
"He's a real ratbag..."
"Sheila"
Female (derogatory)
"Where's your Sheila?"
"sickie"
Sick day off work
"I'm taking a sickie..."
"she'll be right"
It will all be o.k
"She'll be right, mate...!"
"stingers"
Jellyfish
"Beware of stingers...!"
"stubby"
Small bottle of beer
"Let's have a stubby first, shall we?"
"stunned Mullet"
Someone who looks shocked
"He's looking like a stunned Mullet"
"tall poppies"
High achievers
"The tall poppies should pay more taxes..."
"Tassie"
Tasmania
"Let's go holiday in Tassie..."
"trap"
Mouth
"Shut your trap...!"
"tucker"
Food
"Let's dig into the tucker..."
"uni"
University
"He studied at a uni..."
"ute"
"Utility" truck - a pickup truck
"I drive an ute..."
"Vegemite"
Brown yeast sandwich spread which Australians grow up on, but is regarded by most foreigners as "semi-toxic".
"I'll have a Vegemite sandwich, thanks..."
"whinge"
Complain
"What a whingeing Pom..."
"wog"
Someone who comes from the Mediterranean countries (derogatory)
"He's a wog"
"wowser"
Killjoy, prude
"Don't be such a wowser...!"
"yack"
To talk
"Can you stop yack-ing?"
"yonks"
A long time
"It's been yonks that I've seen him"
"yabbie"
An Australian shrimp-like sized lobster with claws
"Let's throw a yabbie on the barbie."
While you are most definitely not alone, 'pb', in believing that 'Waltzing Matilda' is the OZ National Anthem; and possibly many more wish it were, 'Advance Australia Fair' is the National Anthem there
Here's one of my favourite versions of 'W M':
www. youtube. com/watch?v=INdjRCNcZj0
Songwriter: LIGHTFOOT, GORDON
The songs of the wars are as old as the hills
They cling like the rust on the cold steel that kills
They tell of the boys who went down to the tracks
In a patriotic manner with the cold steel on their backs
The patriot's dream is as old as the sky
It lives in the lust of a cold callous lie
Let's drink to the men who got caught by the chill
Of the patriotic fever and the cold steel that kills
....