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Everything from body parts to gas stations is fair game for slang in Oz: abbreviation (or outright recoining) is a way of life here. As one Aussie pal put it: "The trick is in shortening anything that's already been shortened and then giving it a longer nickname." Makes sense, no?
It is still used in Australia and New Zealand, but Wikipedia says its use there is fading.bricky bricklayer.Brizzy slang for Brisbane, capital city of the state of Queensland.brumby wild horse. Like rabbits, foxes, and domestic cats, the horse was brought to Australia and has survived too ...
Australians say a lot of weird things with slang words.What kinds of things have you heard that have kind of just weirded you out?澳大利亚人说的那些带俚语的表达都蛮奇怪的。你听了之后感到超级奇怪的表达有什么呢？Maybe if someone said, you know, "Go to the boot and get some bush chooks a...
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It is lo-cal slang(俚语) for Are you ready(to go)? and it was derived from the sound of a carriage-pulling horse. At Sydney Airport, I asked the way to thetrain station and he told me,“Go ask that bloke overthere. " Bloke is used in Australia and refers to a person.Day and...
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“Many of us found humour in language use as a way to cope with our changed working and social circumstances, so why not talk about a bad self-inflicted haircut as aniso cut, or the extra weight gained due to lack of exercise asiso kilos.” ...
In this campaign they attempt to use nationalist symbols and discourses. The advertisement begins with representing one of the popular Australian values as such; the Australian slang language of greeting, by saying: G’day. The representing voice is a male who commences to correct common ...
No big paragraphs and in our slang, like in the way we talk. For us in Yarrabah, we’re short, quick.” Service Providers: Listening to Youth Service providers recognised the importance of listening to youth for guidance about improvement in youth wellbeing services. One recognised: “As ...