09-02-2016, 12:06 PM
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Re: Accents
Hi very interesting subject, thought I might put my ten cents worth in with a lot of common words & phrases from down under, many we use on a daily basis.Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules football
Amber fluid : beer
Ambo : ambulance, ambulance driver
Ankle biter : small child
Apples, she'll be : It'll be all right
Arvo : afternoon
Aussie (pron. Ozzie) : Australian
Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand
Avos : avocados
Back of Bourke : a very long way away
Bail (somebody) up : to corner somebody physically
Bail out : depart, usually angrily
Banana bender : a person from Queensland
Barbie : barbecue (noun)
Barrack : to cheer on (football team etc.)
Bastard : term of endearment
Bathers : swimming costume
Battler : someone working hard and only just making a living
Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic
Big Smoke : a big city, especially Sydney or Melbourne
Big-note oneself : brag, boast
Bikkie : biscuit (also "it cost big bikkies" - it was expensive)
Billabong : an oxbow lake cut off by a change in the watercourse. Billabongs are usually formed when the course of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end.
Billy : teapot. Container for boiling water.
Bingle : motor vehicle accident
09-02-2016, 01:59 PM
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Ole Simmo 1939
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Hi very interesting subject, thought I might put my ten cents worth in with a lot of common words & phrases from down under, many we use on a daily basis....
09-02-2016, 02:12 PM
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by MickB
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Mmm not so sure. Accent refers to pronunciation and phrasing. Dialect is much more about the use of words and their meanings.
Are we allowed ethnic jokes?
09-02-2016, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Advantage Out
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I still do not agree with that line of reasoning. Let's take it from a fair starting point and see where it leads us. Does one say, "He speaks with a foreign dialect ?".... or ... "He speaks with a foreign accent"?
When they speak a variant of that language (which is often accompanied by an accent) that is a dialect.
If you read the novel, 'Trainspotting' the difference is obvious. If you try to read it in a standard English accent, it is definitely a dialect - almost a different language. If you read it in a 'Glesga'accent, it is still a dialect but it becomes a bit more intelligible (if you've spent time amongst Scots).
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