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« Last post by pooka on September 24, 2024, 12:04:56 PM »I've been known to call wimpering grousing. I sometimes call my babies monkey-bear when they aren't content.
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« Last post by Porter on September 24, 2024, 05:44:48 AM »A British one that I would have never understood without looking it up from a recent TV show:
connie = conscious objector (during wartime)
connie = conscious objector (during wartime)
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dunny = toilet, especially porta-potty-typeThat one I know from watching Bluey, which is an almost daily occurrence at my house
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« Last post by rivka on September 23, 2024, 05:14:05 PM »I also knew arvo, root, and combi, but the rest were new to me.
I think I had heard arvo before. And definitely chook. I don't think I knew any of the others.
A few more:
dunny = toilet, especially porta-potty-type
spliff = joint (in the pot sense)
rack off = emphatic "go away!"
grizzling = that noise a baby makes that's not quite crying, similar to whimpering or kvetching
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English & Linguistics / Re: New column-type thingy
« Last post by rivka on September 23, 2024, 05:07:50 PM »Even in fictional dialogue?
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« Last post by Tante Shvester on September 23, 2024, 01:02:50 PM »Jeepers. But I really like semicolons.
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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation
« Last post by Jonathon on September 21, 2024, 10:14:37 AM »I also knew arvo, root, and combi, but the rest were new to me.
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« Last post by rivka on September 20, 2024, 03:18:55 PM »"You've got tickets on yourself" is pretty great.Yeah, and that one I was pretty sure of the meaning by context, but looked it up to confirm.
Some of the others I was completely
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« Last post by Jonathon on September 20, 2024, 07:57:56 AM »I thought a ute was just a truck based on a passenger car chassis, like an El Camino, but Wikipedia says the term expanded at some point.
"You've got tickets on yourself" is pretty great.
"You've got tickets on yourself" is pretty great.
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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation
« Last post by rivka on September 20, 2024, 12:14:06 AM »I've been watching an Australian show (to follow up all the UK ones I was watching before that). Lots of odd (to my ears, at least) slang and word usage, including:
doona = duvet
arvo = afternoon
chook = chicken (I knew this one already, but it's still weird)
off his/her face = very drunk or high
root (noun or verb) = mildly rude word for sex
rooted = broken
ute = truck or SUV
nursing babies = working as a nurse with babies
Combi/Kombi = VW van (or similar) meant for transporting both people and lots of stuff
you've got tickets on yourself = seriously conceited
doona = duvet
arvo = afternoon
chook = chicken (I knew this one already, but it's still weird)
off his/her face = very drunk or high
root (noun or verb) = mildly rude word for sex
rooted = broken
ute = truck or SUV
nursing babies = working as a nurse with babies
Combi/Kombi = VW van (or similar) meant for transporting both people and lots of stuff
you've got tickets on yourself = seriously conceited