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General => The Colosseum => Topic started by: jj2007 on October 14, 2022, 07:50:13 PM
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Test your English knowledge - did you know epicaricacy, wobbleknockers, embonpoint and other rare words?
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-ask-for-a-pint-in-England/answer/Ian-Lang-16
Ah Ian, in this zenosynetic age, when vellichorian pleasures are few and far between, the sonderness engendered by my antipodealistic gluckshmerz of your schadenfreude is antidote to my liberosis.
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:sad:
Urrrrgh !
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Nah, we speak 'stralian ere mate. Can't be speak'in that poofy pommy crap.
A shit hot poly siz ol sir Les Patterson. HERE
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULFMp4jKBo)Colloquial speech is always interesting, but can sometimes be understood via context.I found Japanese a challenge and old Japanese writing, sosho beyond me.
But wobbleknockers, if I said that to a woman, I would be getting ready to do a runner.
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Nah, we speak 'stralian ere mate. Can't be speak'in that poofy pommy crap.
A shit hot poly siz ol sir Les Patterson. HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULFMp4jKBo)
Tasmania is a triangular continent a bit on the bushy side
Gorgeous :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Awe, g'die, ouz about you have a listen to this dittie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR98VfsOijI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR98VfsOijI)
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Awe, g'die, ouz about you have a listen to this dittie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR98VfsOijI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR98VfsOijI)
Nice! Is that your own true voice, or some Micros*t product developed exclusively for Australia?
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Awe, g'die, ouz about you have a listen to this dittie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR98VfsOijI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR98VfsOijI)
LOL, nice.
I thought you were going to add the old "I got such a veranda now I have to stand on a mirror to see the old fella". :greensml:
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JJ,
I did both, my more or less normal speaking voice and NORM. The original NORM was a Victorian health department promo for "Life Be In It" and with the normal inverse humour, the population coined "Life, Be Out Of It" with a hint of chemically induced euphoria. :tongue:
NORM was the guy in the cartoon promo, cool the tinnies and warm the set (to watch John Newcom playing tennis) and it coined a phrase commonly used after that "Bewdy Nuke" which indicates that you approve of what you are watching.
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Colloquial speech is always interesting, but can sometimes be understood via context.I found Japanese a challenge and old Japanese writing, sosho beyond me.
I have exercise japanese for years now and find it rewarding after "sound words" to re watch anime again which is often filled with them,because now I understand the Japanese versions of "sound words" = describe horse neighing, heart pounding exited when a girl you are in love with,slamming a door,noisy eating,elephant walking etc
Inspired me to write western text to hiragana /katakana converter,numbers to Chinese characters converter
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Nah, we speak 'stralian ere mate.
I thought the correct term here was "'strine".
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He he, the term "strine" came from the 1960s, it was a foreign attempt to describe what Australian dialect sounded like to a foreigner. OZ English has similarities to KIWI English but for different reasons. Much of New Zealand is so phuking cold that the locals speak with ther teeth clenched where in parts of OZ, its so phuking hot that the cloud of flies see you as a source of moisture and if you don't keep you mouth shut, you will end up with a mouth full of flies. Speaking through clenched teeth is a way of communicating without getting a mouth ful of flies. :tongue:
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I don't think I have ever heard of that way of saying Australian. But I was born in 1969.
Yea, the bloody flies..."..these FLIES!!". :biggrin:
Hence the wine'o' corks on the old swaggy's hat.
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Any common words ?
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I was told when I was younger, that many countries share a common language with the U. S.
Hell, even the Brits can't speak English as I know it, afaic. :joking: I live in the state of Louisiana now. I'd swear that some of the (generations old) locals here speak a foreign language. :greensml: I'm from Chicago Illinois, and I have to listen real close to what they're saying in order to decipher it. :tongue:
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Hi Timo,
That list is pretty close to common usage here in OZ. The modified gaelic work "sheila" is still in use in some areas, usually "young sheila" and it is a complimentary term translating to "young beauty".
The word "wine" is usually associated with a similar sounding word "whine" and used to be associated with unhappy English immigrants. The local idiom for the word "wine" was "plonk" and was associated with folks with pretensions or men who were no robust enough for beer.
If anyone gets a sniff of Australian people, its the "don't give a phuk" about the old world (anybodies), historical airs and graces or any other pretensions.
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here I am used to the word "grogg",but its booze mixed with coke,fanta everyone can make at home at various strength
"Kaffegök" = coffee+booze
just curious if all whisky lovers also like Irish coffee=based on whisky instead of vodka
"t-knekt" = tea+booze
@hutch
is that only Ozzie slang,what inxs singer explained in interview why the song was named "Suicide Blonde"=1960's slang for non-natural blonde,dyed hair blonde
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My generation called them "bottle blondes". :tongue:
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My generation called them "bottle blondes". :tongue:
Some girls can pull it off, others not. But has to be just the right shade of blonde. :biggrin:
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True story, I gave the wife "draakie" a copy of my thesis
to review (some time in 2016/2017). She opened it in
Adobe Acrobat Reader, first thing, it popped up a dialog:
"Do you want to translate to English". Erm, I wrote it in that
language as an academic requirement, I thought ? :rofl:
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Hi Rudi,
Depending on your sense of humour, when Adobe mention "English", they in fact mean politically correct American English, not what ordinary Americans actually speak, and as far as us foreigners, something from another planet. I get the impression that ZA English is probably as robust as Aussia English which may not be politically correct in woke US politically correct speech.
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Depending on your sense of humour, when Adobe mention "English", they in fact mean politically correct American English, not what ordinary Americans actually speak, and as far as us foreigners, something from another planet. I get the impression that ZA English is probably as robust as Aussia English which may not be politically correct in woke US politically correct speech.
I agree,with many ZA English words like lekker,bakkie,Kak it possible adobe detects it as non English
Same as southern most province here use words that is non swedish for stockholmare
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You have me in stiches @daydreamer :joking: :rofl: :bgrin: