Management and I were walking into the shops today and this bloke came out wearing a T shirt with a picture of Ned Kelly in his famous armour. The caption read... "Ned Kelly Outlaw..." Only because he was about 4 pickhandles across the shoulders did I restrain management from pulling his nose and pointing out that he was not an "Outlaw", but a bloody BUSHRANGER.... Is nothing sacred? Must everything in our culture and history be "Americanised? The French would never stand for it. So why should we? Just a pet peeve of mine.....
jules47 said
01:05 PM Apr 3, 2011
So Pete - do you still say "bewdy" "bonza" "she'll be rightmate" "cobber""cooee" "crikey" "strewth" "knoaf""howyagoin""reckon" - I luv the Aussie language (not Ozzie) - strine is triffic - I don't like the Americanisation of our language - bad enough with rhyming slang being from the ****ney - what other words did we used to use that you never hear kids say these days?
ozi2 said
03:30 PM Apr 3, 2011
jules47 wrote:
So Pete - do you still say "bewdy" "bonza" "she'll be rightmate" "cobber""cooee" "crikey" "strewth" "knoaf""howyagoin""reckon" - I luv the Aussie language (not Ozzie) - strine is triffic - I don't like the Americanisation of our language - bad enough with rhyming slang being from the ****ney - what other words did we used to use that you never hear kids say these days?
Thank you?
Sheba said
03:31 PM Apr 3, 2011
How about our Ads. even being Americanised now. eg, Cup-cakes. There are others I can't bring to mind right this minute, but the latest one [and I can't grab it off-hand ] is a Pizza Ad.
Too much American influence going right back to early settlement times.
Cheers, Sheba.
clazandaza said
03:56 PM Apr 3, 2011
jules47 wrote:
So Pete - do you still say "bewdy" "bonza" "she'll be rightmate" "cobber""cooee" "crikey" "strewth" "knoaf""howyagoin""reckon" - I luv the Aussie language (not Ozzie) - strine is triffic - I don't like the Americanisation of our language - bad enough with rhyming slang being from the ****ney - what other words did we used to use that you never hear kids say these days?
We used to say ' Dink" as in 'Give us a dink over to the shop'. For those who think I am speaking in tongues it meant to give someone a double on a pushbike.
Ian
jimbo said
03:59 PM Apr 3, 2011
Cookie's Sweets,iNstead of biscuits and Lollies
Loffty said
04:03 PM Apr 3, 2011
How about Togs,chonks and pushies. Bathers, lollies and bikes.
Onedodger said
04:23 PM Apr 3, 2011
and how about.... London to a brick, trizzy, zack, tin lids,
and about time you blokes and shiela's stood up for our aussie lingo.
Need I say more.
Cheers Dodg.
Ma said
05:09 PM Apr 3, 2011
The big one in my book that the kids of today are missing is "PLEASE"
Happywanderer said
05:34 PM Apr 3, 2011
ClazanDaza, instead of dink, in NZ we used to say dub. Give me a dub on your bike to the shop.
jimricho said
06:27 PM Apr 3, 2011
It's my understanding that the word "outlaw" predates the wild west and is an old English term and means a person legally denied the protection of the law. Without checking up it's been my impression that Ned Kelly was declared an outlaw (in the legal sense). If someone checks and finds this is not so, feel free to correct me. Very few Aussie colloquialisms are genuinely "home grown" Aussie. Even the word "dinkum" as in "fair dinkum" is English Midlands in origin.
-- Edited by jimricho on Sunday 3rd of April 2011 06:28:43 PM
jules47 said
07:25 PM Apr 3, 2011
What about "ridgydidge"?
Zoomtopz said
08:23 PM Apr 3, 2011
Funny thing Mate
As I said this morning - my Mrs is a Yank - the funny bit .
The Yanks just Love the way we talk .
It's like me trying to get You to do as I do -
All I would be doing is creating another me ,
I would not like that , I hate competition .
A few of us around the area I live still talk proper Aussie .
I re-invented one a couple of years after I moved back into my birth area .
Old mate was saying something that surprised us all a bit - it just came out -
"Well strike me up a roan horses r sole"- the bloke who surprised us a bit says -
The last time I heard that was from your Grandfather over 50yrs ago .
I got taught well .
Richo
ps I thought it was Bewdy Newk
R
-- Edited by Zoomtopz on Sunday 3rd of April 2011 08:25:08 PM
Cruising Granny said
10:29 PM Apr 3, 2011
Oreo's have been promoted by Americanisation to replace the beloved Delta Cream BISCUIT. Not cookies or cream. Caravans are not trailers in this country. RV's are motorhomes here, and we know the difference. If it wasn't for TV we would be on our own and wouldn't be able to understand those foreign words and phrases and couldn't speak this language. If ti wasn't for immigration we wouldn't know anything about those rhyming slang coloquialisms. Our language is a combination of all the nationalities which populated our country since discovery and settlement. That's what makes us unique. Multilingual and tolerantly proud and unique.
Delta18 said
10:16 AM Apr 4, 2011
I absolutely hate SUV's for wagons and "I'm going out in my TRUCK" only to get into a Ute!
Hoo roo Neil.
Beth54 said
09:52 AM Apr 5, 2011
It's pretty hard to avoid the Americanisms with TV movies and internet. I tend to think it's up to us, the older generation, to keep the Australian colloquialisms going.
I havbe many pet hates along these lines. Mayo for one..if you say no mayonnaise at Maccas, they don't understand what your talking about.
Cupcakes is another one. They're patty cakes. Or is that a Qld word?
There too, is the different words between states and/or NZ.
I wear togs, I eat Rockmelon, and I carry a port! These things are just good natured ribbing, but I do object to the Americanisms.
As for Ned Kelly, 'outlaw' may be English originally, but bushranger is...
Management and I were walking into the shops today and this bloke came out wearing a T shirt with a picture of Ned Kelly in his famous armour. The caption read... "Ned Kelly Outlaw..." Only because he was about 4 pickhandles across the shoulders did I restrain management from pulling his nose and pointing out that he was not an "Outlaw", but a bloody BUSHRANGER.... Is nothing sacred? Must everything in our culture and history be "Americanised? The French would never stand for it. So why should we? Just a pet peeve of mine.....
Thank you?
Too much American influence going right back to early settlement times.
Cheers,
Sheba.
We used to say ' Dink" as in 'Give us a dink over to the shop'. For those who think I am speaking in tongues it meant to give someone a double on a pushbike.
Ian
Cookie's Sweets,iNstead of biscuits and Lollies
Bathers, lollies and bikes.
and about time you blokes and shiela's stood up for our aussie lingo.
Need I say more.
Cheers Dodg.
The big one in my book that the kids of today are missing is "PLEASE"
It's my understanding that the word "outlaw" predates the wild west and is an old English term and means a person legally denied the protection of the law. Without checking up it's been my impression that Ned Kelly was declared an outlaw (in the legal sense). If someone checks and finds this is not so, feel free to correct me. Very few Aussie colloquialisms are genuinely "home grown" Aussie. Even the word "dinkum" as in "fair dinkum" is English Midlands in origin.
-- Edited by jimricho on Sunday 3rd of April 2011 06:28:43 PM
Funny thing Mate
As I said this morning - my Mrs is a Yank - the funny bit .
The Yanks just Love the way we talk .
It's like me trying to get You to do as I do -
All I would be doing is creating another me ,
I would not like that , I hate competition .
A few of us around the area I live still talk proper Aussie .
I re-invented one a couple of years after I moved back into my birth area .
Old mate was saying something that surprised us all a bit - it just came out -
"Well strike me up a roan horses r sole"- the bloke who surprised us a bit says -
The last time I heard that was from your Grandfather over 50yrs ago .
I got taught well .
Richo
ps I thought it was Bewdy Newk
R
-- Edited by Zoomtopz on Sunday 3rd of April 2011 08:25:08 PM
Not cookies or cream. Caravans are not trailers in this country. RV's are motorhomes here, and we know the difference.
If it wasn't for TV we would be on our own and wouldn't be able to understand those foreign words and phrases and couldn't speak this language.
If ti wasn't for immigration we wouldn't know anything about those rhyming slang coloquialisms.
Our language is a combination of all the nationalities which populated our country since discovery and settlement.
That's what makes us unique. Multilingual and tolerantly proud and unique.
I absolutely hate SUV's for wagons and "I'm going out in my TRUCK" only to get into a Ute!
Hoo roo Neil.
It's pretty hard to avoid the Americanisms with TV movies and internet. I tend to think it's up to us, the older generation, to keep the Australian colloquialisms going.
I havbe many pet hates along these lines. Mayo for one..if you say no mayonnaise at Maccas, they don't understand what your talking about.
Cupcakes is another one. They're patty cakes. Or is that a Qld word?
There too, is the different words between states and/or NZ.
I wear togs, I eat Rockmelon, and I carry a port! These things are just good natured ribbing, but I do object to the Americanisms.
As for Ned Kelly, 'outlaw' may be English originally, but bushranger is...
bush·rang·er
/bren-- Edited by Beth54 on Tuesday 5th of April 2011 09:56:08 AM
Yep . Doesn't matter which way you look at it , or how much spin you put on it . . . . . Ned was a bushranger .
Did Ned Kelly kill a policeman ?
I realise that he had a poor start in life.
Wonder how we'd view his case if it happenned say, this last year 2010 -2011.
Well he would not be hung I know. But what would the publics reactions be!!!!!!
Mike