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!
Waittaminnit! Isn't Marmite English English?
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.
.. no worries ....
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?
...pronouce Nicaragua...
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/.
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?
Everything.
Nicaraguan Jaguar
Salman Rusdie wrote about such a thing in his book: The Jaguar Smile.
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?
You mean there is a difference??? I bet either way is hot.
Nicaraguan Jaguars and Orange Dogs
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.
[YOUTUBE]YyzrKPcLpBw[/YOUTUBE]
I can drawl like an Austray-yan, enunciate like an Englishman, or tork like a Yank. Sometimes in the same sentence.
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.
WHY does my copy have to at the back of impenetrable shed several thousand kilometres away???? I want to revisit the Orange Dogs.
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:
I do NOT ... say pin instead of pen.
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
--snip
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.
[YOUTUBE]YyzrKPcLpBw[/YOUTUBE]
I found this helpful.
FIGJAM Lyrics
I woke up this morning, but I didn't wake
'Til the afternoon, because I slept in late
With a great mental state and a date with destiny
I'll roll down the block without a copper even stressin' me
Let alone arrestin' me or giving me a ticket
It's coming into summer, and the weather's fucking wicked
So I figured I'd be hitting the beach
Look at skinny-dipper's titties and get something to eat
After half a pound of chips and a flounder burger
I was sitting on my arse like a council worker
Reminising about being pissed off about
My house burning down to the ground, and being out on my arse
Before my change of fortune
Now I score tunes, don't get up before noon
So your mama's on the head of my knob
And it's better than heading to my dead-end job
Because the boss was a cockhead when I was a clerk
So I clocked him - and now I don't work
It's beautiful day, and I can use a cliche, cause
"I am the greatest!" ...like Cassius Clay
I got the world at my feet, and my toe jam's nasty
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
I couldn't give a shit about your corporate hierachy
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man
I rock around in trucker thongs
Fucked off a buck-of-bongs
If you don't like it, you can come suck a long dick.
'Cause I'm brit pop, all the way to hip hop
I get so plastered, you'd think I'm drinking gyp-rock
But I'm shit-hot, no matter how you look at it
And my lyrics make you wanna read the book-a-let'
Don't - 'cause I'm cooking it like the iron chef!
That's why I'm deaf, up to the high clef
Figjam!
The rhymes are fat like Chief Wiggum and in fact
I never lack it's like a magic pack of Tim Tams
Where the duck nuts and you suck and I don't give-a-damn, so good on the cut
They should call me Edward Scissorhands
So give a hand for me and my associates ... (You suck!)
Well that's just inappropriate
Smoke me a kipper, bitch
I'm from the Ipa-switch
Side of town, don't forget to write it down
(West side, eeee!)
What the fuck? It ain't gangster rap!
Think you're tougher, then you'd probably suffer wanker's cramp
And I'll thank you to fuck right off
Professional fuckwits, take one night off
I'm Evil Eddie with a rock-steady microphone mastery
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
As a concept, the intellect can't grasp me
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man!
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man!
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man!
Ahhhh! I can't believe how good I am, I'm the motherfucking man!
I got the style and profile, without the help of rhinoplasty
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
Kicking arse in the charts, but you can't class me
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
I just had a threesome with ya moma and your aunty
Figjam!
Fuck I'm good, just ask me
And they're coming back this arvo for the bukkake party
Figjam!
My dick is bigger than a wigwam!
And you can see my peepee three feet above the tv
And if you are getting very sleepy, wake up!
(these cunts need a shake up)
I'm a jet-set, go-getter, but I got a vendetta
Just got a death threat over the phone
Better go lay low, under ground, like a bilby
Figjam!
Chill man, people wanna kill me!
But I don't let that bullshit sweat me
I'm at ya mama's if you wanna come and get me,
You shady fuck, I may be stuck
In a crazy situation but I'm favoured by lady luck
You wanna stop me? You'd wanna do it properly?
[Blam blam]
Ah fuck! Somebody shot me!
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
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.
Well, at least he gave fair warning.
I rock around in trucker thongs
Fucked off a buck-of-bongs
If you don't like it, you can come suck a long dick.
'Cause I'm brit pop, all the way to hip hop
I get so plastered, you'd think I'm drinking gyp-rock
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.
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.