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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Jonathon on October 08, 2024, 05:55:57 PM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by rivka on October 06, 2024, 10:46:23 PM »

Heh. I like the Kiwi version.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by Jonathon on October 06, 2024, 06:13:27 PM »

Yeah, looks like it.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 05, 2024, 11:44:02 PM »

For Eskimo, I guess.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by Jonathon on October 05, 2024, 09:13:59 AM »

We just started watching an Australian show too, and we learned "esky" as a generic term for a portable cooler.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by rivka on September 25, 2024, 06:37:07 PM »

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

One last batch:
pregnant to him = pregnant by him (although this one I mostly see in older books and such) or pregnant with his child
pash = smooch
buck's night = stag night

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« 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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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« 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)

dunny = toilet, especially porta-potty-type

That one I know from watching Bluey, which is an almost daily occurrence at my house

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« 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?