Management and I were walking into the shops today and this bloke came out wearing a T shirt with a picture of Ned Kelly in his famous armour. The caption read... "Ned Kelly Outlaw..." Only because he was about 4 pickhandles across the shoulders did I restrain management from pulling his nose and pointing out that he was not an "Outlaw", but a bloody BUSHRANGER.... Is nothing sacred? Must everything in our culture and history be "Americanised? The French would never stand for it. So why should we? Just a pet peeve of mine.....
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If there is such a thing as a tourist season.... why cant we shoot them?
So Pete - do you still say "bewdy" "bonza" "she'll be rightmate" "cobber""cooee" "crikey" "strewth" "knoaf""howyagoin""reckon" - I luv the Aussie language (not Ozzie) - strine is triffic - I don't like the Americanisation of our language - bad enough with rhyming slang being from the ****ney - what other words did we used to use that you never hear kids say these days?
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So Pete - do you still say "bewdy" "bonza" "she'll be rightmate" "cobber""cooee" "crikey" "strewth" "knoaf""howyagoin""reckon" - I luv the Aussie language (not Ozzie) - strine is triffic - I don't like the Americanisation of our language - bad enough with rhyming slang being from the ****ney - what other words did we used to use that you never hear kids say these days?
How about our Ads. even being Americanised now. eg, Cup-cakes. There are others I can't bring to mind right this minute, but the latest one [and I can't grab it off-hand ] is a Pizza Ad.
Too much American influence going right back to early settlement times.
So Pete - do you still say "bewdy" "bonza" "she'll be rightmate" "cobber""cooee" "crikey" "strewth" "knoaf""howyagoin""reckon" - I luv the Aussie language (not Ozzie) - strine is triffic - I don't like the Americanisation of our language - bad enough with rhyming slang being from the ****ney - what other words did we used to use that you never hear kids say these days?
We used to say ' Dink" as in 'Give us a dink over to the shop'. For those who think I am speaking in tongues it meant to give someone a double on a pushbike.
It's my understanding that the word "outlaw" predates the wild west and is an old English term and means a person legally denied the protection of the law. Without checking up it's been my impression that Ned Kelly was declared an outlaw (in the legal sense). If someone checks and finds this is not so, feel free to correct me. Very few Aussie colloquialisms are genuinely "home grown" Aussie. Even the word "dinkum" as in "fair dinkum" is English Midlands in origin.
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Oreo's have been promoted by Americanisation to replace the beloved Delta Cream BISCUIT. Not cookies or cream. Caravans are not trailers in this country. RV's are motorhomes here, and we know the difference. If it wasn't for TV we would be on our own and wouldn't be able to understand those foreign words and phrases and couldn't speak this language. If ti wasn't for immigration we wouldn't know anything about those rhyming slang coloquialisms. Our language is a combination of all the nationalities which populated our country since discovery and settlement. That's what makes us unique. Multilingual and tolerantly proud and unique.
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Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
It's pretty hard to avoid the Americanisms with TV movies and internet. I tend to think it's up to us, the older generation, to keep the Australian colloquialisms going.
I havbe many pet hates along these lines. Mayo for one..if you say no mayonnaise at Maccas, they don't understand what your talking about.
Cupcakes is another one. They're patty cakes. Or is that a Qld word?
There too, is the different words between states and/or NZ.
I wear togs, I eat Rockmelon, and I carry a port! These things are just good natured ribbing, but I do object to the Americanisms.
As for Ned Kelly, 'outlaw' may be English originally, but bushranger is...
and how about.... London to a brick, trizzy, zack, tin lids,
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