Challenge! AUSSIES REPRESENT
 

Some of you Stralyan types write a great game, but we want to hear some hot (although this time of year we'll make allowances) Aussie on English (the language) action.

Aliantha has already posted a few vids of her lovely accent, but I think Ducks has only posted pictures of her hinder and cleavage. ZenGum has been positively shameless at exposing his written wit. And Casimendocina has a perplexing handle but, like Zen and Ducks, no vocalizations to speak of. While we're at it, roust Sunsparkz and Sandy Possum and any other Aussies, I've forgotten.

So Dwellars add a word or two to the Aussie List Challenge.

I'll start with:
Jumbuck
Marmite

Hagar and bluesdave and wombat and alphajerk haven't been around lately (or much anyway) either.

Here's a phrase used here a lot.

Bloody oath. As in 'my bloody oath'. Usually it's something like, "bloody oath mate! You shoulda seen it! It was THIS big!!!"

Waittaminnit! Isn't Marmite English English?

My two favourites: fair enough and no worries

and

bugger!

It may be, the point is we need to make a list of words for the Aussies to say out loud while recording themselves.
So the word could be Kumbaya.

In fact, I'll add Kumbaya to the list.

I've picked that up from work with the Brits in the military and from rugby. Now it is a bit of a bad habit, although I hear it frequently in my social circles.

cobblers
get some sheila to do it
I'm off to Yabbie Creek this arvo
Oi! Bea!

Squirrel
Mirror
Dog
Orange
Jaguar
Nicaragua
Water

Yeah, I'll try and man up....just have to wait until the weekend.

Monster - I cant even pronouce Nicaragua in my head, let alone out loud.

Do you want me to drop the c word? because I will, with much heart.

Do you want flirty or out the back with the boys having beers?

This is where I get all sanctimonious (well, more than usual) and linguistic purist...There are 2 ways to pronounce Nicaragua-like it's meant to be pronounced (Ni-ca-ra-gua) or the way non-Spanish speakers pronounce it (i.e. Ni-ca-ra-gu-a) with particular nasal emphasis on the /ra/.

Everything.

Nicaraguan Jaguar

Salman Rusdie wrote about such a thing in his book: The Jaguar Smile.

You mean there is a difference??? I bet either way is hot.

Nicaraguan Jaguars and Orange Dogs

WHY does my copy have to at the back of impenetrable shed several thousand kilometres away???? I want to revisit the Orange Dogs.

Simple thing is, I am wary about putting my image or voice on the net.
Tricky thing is, I don't have an accent. Rather, I don't have an accent. I can drawl like an Austray-yan, enunciate like an Englishman, or tork like a Yank. Sometimes in the same sentence.

The Adelaide accent is somewhat English sounding anyway, and I've spent so much time with international people that I've got in the habit of adjusting my pronunciation to make it easier for them to understand. I've gone through Blair-British and Simpson-American and even developed a "recent migrant from south-east Asia" voice.

So, whatever accent I'm doing, I'm faking it.

As a diversion, here is butterfingers exercising his Aussie Accent. This comes with a category five potty-mouth warning.

video/audio or it's a load of BS.....

See Adam Hills' accent-he's from the same neck of the woods.

I'd like to think my accent is of the Toni Collete/Rachel Griffiths/Cate Blanchette persuasion. However I have been asked if I went to an English public school???(WHAT?!?!) The New Zealander at work takes great delight in attempting to imitate my most Australian expressions (insert big scoff here) as do the North Americans in moments of national rivalry.

Have a word with Sandy Possum.
She won't break into your shed for you, but she might be able to "find" a copy.

Casi, I can't count the amount of times I've been identified as an Antipodean!
Limey & DanaC can confirm I do NOT affect an Australian drawl or say pin instead of pen. Some people are just bad at identifying accents.

Oh. I can sometimes be one of them. Confusing a character with a broad Geordie accent as someone Welsh :redface:

Neither do we...that's the New Zealanders. I remember once, I had a NZer sitting next to me on a plane. At that stage of my life, I was unfamiliar with the differences in the NZ accents. Said fellow passenger asked for something that sounded like /pin/. My geniune response was "sorry, I don't normally carry them around with me." We cleared up that particular misunderstanding fairly quickly.

Is it fellow Brits who have been confused as to the origins of your accent?

Psssst, where do they speak Geordie?

Heeeyyy....i didn't even know what a geordie was until one asked me out recently.

Apparently *wink*smirk*snort*, they are known to be well endowed.





Ok ok....can confirm on this instance

I found this helpful.

thats a Great but arragent song

There is justice, he does get shot in the end.

Don't most rappers (or hiphop or whatever you want to call it) write pretty arrogant lyrics?

It's not my thing personally. I don't see the need for all the swearing but sometimes the lyrics are quite thoughtful. This song is just a parody of himself though really. Surely? No one really thinks that much of themselves do they? lol

Ali, you know that, and I know that, but Zippy is still surfing a tidal wave of surgical anaesthetics and won't be down for a few days yet. Sarcasm is often lost post surgery.

In the mean time, be a love and freshen up his ice pack.

I like the song for the sheer arragents of it ,
its Funny

I liked the word FigJam so much I wanted to start a company just so I could call it FigJam.

I make pretty good figjam. Just ask me.

I once knew an aussie guy who called himself figjam on the internet. He was a complete fucking arsehole.

Dude ive run up on arragent Engineers befor , as we are walking away i would turn to a co worker and say FIGJAM ( motioning back at butthead )
1 has asked what i ment , i told him to look up this song on you tube ( make SHUR the grand son is NOT in the room ) ,
the next day he said i was right

hee hee hee

Well, at least he gave fair warning.


Minor comments:

trucker thongs = flip flops, not g-string.
Line two is probably "fucked up off bucket bongs". Bucket bong is (I think) gravity bong in the US
gyp-rock = drywall, plasterboard.

I am sad to learn that sir Butterfingers' delightful tune is not available in the US. Released in 2005, but Amazon just says "sign up to be notified when this import becomes available." I think you Aussies are in a conspiracy to keep all the clever pottymouths to yourself.

Don't be sad.

That was major cool!
No, not my style or choice of music, but a good example of the genre.

It was enlivened for me by the inclusion of Smoke Me A Kipper [I'll be back for breakfast].

Casi, long time no reply - sorry.
I know it's only Kiwis who sustitute i's for e's. My Aunt was New Zealand born and bred and my Aunt and Uncle and cousin have lived in Australia for 20 odd years now. My accent has been identified as vaguely Antipodean, which covers the home of Crowded House and... well, the home of the rest of Crowded House!
Crocodile Dundee AND the hobbits, if you get me continental drift.