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« 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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« 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 usageOne 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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« 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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« 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
until I looked them up.