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Danger_dave
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 04:27 am: | 
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Crikey! Mate that Krykie is Bollocks Dude.
Onya Tel. |
Pilot
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 05:15 am: |
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Dave Mate,
Australian men can also communicate entire messages and abstract thought just by the way they say faaark.Can be used as a noun,verb,adjective, a very versatile word . |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 06:22 am: |
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faaaaaaaaark yeah.
Dontchaknow. |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 06:26 am: |
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An oldie
Things to consider for your english test....
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. And while no one knows what is in a hotdog, you can be pretty sure it isn't canine.
English muffins were not invented in England nor French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, two meese?
Is cheese the plural of choose? One mouse, 2 mice. One louse, 2 lice. One house, 2 hice?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck or car and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can the weather be hot as heck one day and cold as heck another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
You get in and out of a car, yet you get on and off a bus. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
English is a silly language ... it doesn't know if it is coming or going!!! |
Road_thing
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 10:43 am: |
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dude... |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 10:49 am: |
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Yeah all of that, and you guys keep spelling even the simplest of words incorrectly. Such as Tire/Tyre, Color/Colur. We call our American language English, and you call yours ENGLISH-English.
Y'all give me gas! (but my bike won't run on it). |
Ocbueller
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 07:09 pm: |
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What happens when you teabag someone on your side of the pond?
SteveH |
Hoon
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 07:11 pm: |
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Er,you throw a teabag at them? |
Buellerandy
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 07:45 pm: |
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lol! |
Jmhinkle
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 12:01 am: |
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"What happens when you teabag someone on your side of the pond? "
That is wrong on so many levels! I can't stop laughing now. |
Metalstorm
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 12:20 am: |
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If you ask for "pants" and "suspenders" in England you'll get some funny looks (if you're a guy) since you're actually asking for "panties" and a "garter belt".
"Trousers" and "lifts" is what ye be wanting 
What I love most is here in America we say "Erb", herb with a silent "H"
Across the pond they say "Herb" because there's a bloody "H" in it  |
Aussiexbox
| | Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 03:25 am: |
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Piss off Etennuly,we don't have english here,we speak Orstralian..... best thing the bloody poms ever did was to ship all our forefathers & mothers out here,ah yes the life,sun,sand,and babes...................crikey,& then there was Steve.. |
Garyz28
| | Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 03:32 am: |
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You have to wonder what the English were thinking. They send their convicts off to live in paradise, and they stay back on their cold damp island in the Atlantic. |
Aussiexbox
| | Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 07:12 am: |
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yep gotta agree with ya there Garyz28,and they reckon they were the smart ones................... |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 08:36 pm: |
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Piss off Etennuly,we don't have english here,we speak Orstralian
Am I to assume that you mean for me to get drunk? Or are you telling me to go to hell?
Actually that comment of mine was aimed at those across the Atlantic. By their rules being pissed is to be drunk. Is that the same rule in Aussie land?
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Jackbequick
| | Posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 - 10:26 am: |
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Thanks Dave, that oldie is a good read.
In past year or so The History Channel has had programs on the history of the English language as it evolved and is spoken in England, English as it has evolved and is spoken in America, and England itself.
Fascinating stuff. No conclusions or judgements are drawn, just explanations of how and why it was thought to have unfolded.
If there is a common trend in English, it is that it has evolved continuously and along different paths, and it is still evolving today on most or all of those paths.
One of the more interesting facts that came out it all was that English as spoken in America was the most standardized and best documented dialect of English. That was because of the goal in Revolutionary America to educate citizens of all classes, the zeal with which that was approached, and the manner it was accomplished.
There were large numbers of fairly well standardized "primers" (text books) used in teaching the language of America and those books standardized spellings and pronunciations and initiated the process of assimilating words from the native languages and the various languages of a diverse immigrant population.
Some of the historians of the English language think that the reason that American English has become the defacto "standard language" for things like aviation, was that it was the most widely used and most standardized dialect of English.
I'm thinking that if pilots had to speak and understand Cockney or Orstralian English to negotiate the airways, I'd never get on an airplane again. :>)
Jack |
Bozinski
| | Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 06:47 pm: |
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Someone once told me they read a study somewhere that concluded that English that was spoken during the time of Shakespeare probably sounded more like the dialect of New England than it does the "proper" English spoken by modern Shakespearean actors.
I've heard that the word "fanny" which in American-English refers to our rears, in Britain refers to a woman's genitalia. So...on a trip to Scotland, I and some of my travel companions went into a grocery store. I was in line checking out a few items, and they were standing across the store at the entry door when I heard one of them holler, "Hey Brad, you left your fanny pack in the van!" I didn't even have a fanny pack, but they thought it would be funny...
I'm sure the little old ladies and mothers with children thought so, too. |
Aussiexbox
| | Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007 - 09:25 pm: |
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Etenuly............nah that's meant in a nice way mate,we're all laid back in the country,piss off is a slang way of saying "Are you kidding",to get drunk is to get "pissed"not take one,I mean the list is endless.............Oh yeah here's a good one for ya......Rubber in Oz means an eraser in your terms,and a rubber is a "franga" here.............are ya all confused yet? |
Tel
| | Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 12:25 am: |
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We look under the bonnet of cages, you check under the hood. We get stuff out of the boot, you guys get it out of the trunk. |
Garyz28
| | Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 12:35 am: |
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How about spanners vs wrenches. |
Skiddplate
| | Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 01:13 am: |
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Hung with a few Ozzies when I went to Thai Bike Week (Phurgis) in Patong Beach. (Soi Eric ROCKS) Soon I was infected by the contagious habit of affectionately calling everyone Mates or K*nts. Very appropriate and no need to translate! Good on ya! |
Aussiexbox
| | Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 05:13 am: |
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Hey Tel ain't a trunk a thing that an elephant's got................ |
Hoon
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 01:29 pm: |
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I think a Teeter-totter is a See-saw in the UK (Kiddies playground item)? |
Red_chili
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 02:33 pm: |
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I'm thinking someone should start a small business in the UK selling discount motocross pants. With rider protection of course. Kevlar to reduce tearing and abrasion. With an attached fanny pack, all ventilated and moisture resistant.
Sure to get visitors.
(Message edited by Red_Chili on December 27, 2007) |
Bertotti
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 05:56 pm: |
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Hoon I can't believe you weren't all over that tea bag comment. SO SO WRONG!
I also want to thank everyone for not posting a picture of that!
(Message edited by bertotti on December 27, 2007) |
Hoon
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 07:08 pm: |
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Here ya go,I'll keep you all amused:
I'm afraid someone's gonna have to explain tea bagging to me,I know it's something to do with ya clacker-sack.
It's something you do to your mates in the 'locker room' (changing room in UK speak) right?
Rofl,I just looked it up on Wikipedia (I was going to look for a picture of a genuine tea bag to post for your amusement).
I see another seasonally appropriate term for it is 'Turkey slapping'.
So,who slapped the turkey at the dining table on Christmas day? anyone?anyone?no?
Doesn't go down well in front of the in-laws I suppose,hahaha.
Here's one for you while it's schoolboy humour hour:
What does a gash make you guys think of? A bad cut? |
Stretchman
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 07:43 am: |
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Back when I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, we used to refer to the British as 'Blokes'.
Course, napkins had a different meaning, as did nicked, not to be confused of course, with knickers.
Still using wax paper in the loo?
Pitch darts?
All I can think of off of the top of my head. So, cheers mate, ta. |
Hoon
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 02:58 pm: |
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My Dad still insists on using wax paper, it's wrong I tell you!
I had a set of Lawn darts when I was a kid (try and throw them so they land in a hoop across the garden (yard)),is that what Pitch darts are? |
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