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You talk funny
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by Rose-Kitten
Australians talk spazzy!!!!!!!!!!
spazz jazz?
burger king
hungry jacks or something
we say take away don't we?
yeah
I do
I SAY RUNNERS!
YOU'RE RIGHT!
and i concur on the takeaway thing - 'takeout' is american, innit?
worst possible person to confirm anything being right
HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY!
:(
YAY RUNNERS!!!!
esi (cool box)
eski *
eski-boy
A dual carriageway is like a road, only with two lanes on each side!
Even I know that, and I don't even know which button is for 'go' on a motorcar.
Insert Coin
eski (cool box)
they're called leads rose,
not chords.
god you're so cluey
icey poles?
thongs? then what do you call a thong?
thongs = g-strings
yup.
they're different no?
ute
chooks
flamin' hoodlums (unruly youths)
bogans (chavs)
Spiggin hufters?
Gruffty nonces?
Caketeaker!
strike me roan!
you flamin' galah!
strike me pink!
you flamin' mongrels!
like thus:
DUNCAN YA BURNT DOWN THE FLAMIN BAIT SHOP YOU MONGREL, STRIKE ME PINK AILS!
haha
I liked it when he went mad or had a tumour or something and kept hallucinating Ails (who was dead by this point) telling him what to do.
SNEAKERS
sneakers is probably one of my favorite terms, you should take it up
Shrimp (Beefburger)
nice day, ay.
SHITHOUSE
Mate I'm totally fucking maggot
This is a good thread Rose-Kitten
I hear you loud and clear. IT'S THONGS!
Doona (Duvet)
Couch (Seetee)
I'm going to try to think of more.
Doona?
Doona is Ghanaian for arse. You call a duvet an arse? You backwards lumps.
it IS doona. indeed.
Duvet is tres French, non?
Not a massive influence in Oz, you see.
doona is the one
i've had the hardest time dropping.
and it's the one people laugh at me most for.
You know Ghanaian?
I'm impressed!
I know two Ghanaian words.
Arse, and cunt.
I'm not picky.
:D
Are you sure?
I didn't think Ghanaian was even a language?
you racist cunt.
marcelle desailly is on his way round
I can't remember which dialect it is
All I know is it's one of the languages spoken in Ghana. I'm not cosmopolitan enough to have got any further.
or to know that "dialect" would indicate that they are still all one language ;)
(^ PEDANT)
I'll find out someday if I study there. Or if I could be bothered to Google it. Not likely.
Looks like you've got the key words covered then
:D
*settee
You Australians are strange!
:)
Lakker tekkies, ek se!
Haha it's like that now?
And it's 'Lekker'
Oh you're such a jol
My apologies, school boy error, I'm pretty new at this Afrikaans thing.
I had to learn Afrikaans for 12 years of my life as a subject it was dire!
My favourite though is we call:
Traffic lights - Robots
Afrikaans is such a terrible sounding language, ja!
I'm still trying to think of the other words I learnt when I was there. It's all faded so quickly.
It depends where you live
Jo'burg slang is very different to Durban and Cape Town talk.
My ex lived in durban and used to say things like:
I'm going to waai porsie to klap a dos.
Which means:
I'm going home to sleep.
What does this mean then?
I got taught it in Durban:
Jou ma nai vir bus geld en dan trap sy huis toe
HAHAHA
That means:
Your mother fucks for bus money and then has to walk home.
Oh that's good to know then!
I knew it was something bad. Glad I didn't say it to anyone then, those South African jokers!
You only stayed in Cape Town I gather
That's a very Capetonian insult, along with:
Jy het uit jou ma se gad gebore want haar poes was te buisig.
No I was mainly in Durban
We stayed in a game park (Hluhluwe), went to Splashy Fen, then went to Cape Town for a bit. Heaps of fun!
I would love to hear how you pronounce 'Hluhluwe'
Splashy Fen! Man there's a blast from the past!
So you didn't venture up to Jozi then?
That would have been a crime ridden treat!
I think I can now pronounce 'Hluhluwe' correctly after a lot of 'wet' attempts
Didn't make it to Jozi, apparently I haven't missed much.
True it's a very 'spitty' word
You missed getting shot at and having your stuff stolen ;)
Thing about Jozi is it's not really a tourist place - you have to know people there for it to be fun.
Yeah that's what everyone told me about Jo'burg
I thought I'd escaped the famed SA crime until I found my bank account was £800 lighter. I was on the lookout for shootings, muggings and rapings, and then they went and got all high-tech on my ass!
The South African crims
are getting smarter.
When were you there?
Most of March
I got back to London on April 1
Wow so you got the nice part of summer...
It was good weather most of the time
In Cape Town it was 32 every day, so amazing.
Splashy it rained heaps and I had no gumboots (wellingtons, another thing for this thread!) so I got all muddy :(
I say gumboots too
But African rain is the best.
It's big and warm.
I don't think any rain is best
...when you're shin deep in mud can can't walk anywhere! It was big and warm though, I'll grant you that.
yay for gumboots!!
ahhh it's all coming back :)
I got the translation back!
Funny! Where in SA are you from?
It's terrible! Where did you go for the translation?
I'm from Jo'burg.
I emailed it to a South African friend of mine
He was on it like lightening!
Amazing! He now thinks you're a pervert!
i'm glad he was able to figure it out - my spelling on some of the words was a bit off.
He already thinks that so no problem :D
Fantastic!
Now I have to think of more to dirty your name up a little more!
people don't believe me
when i tell them about the robots thing!
It's true we call traffic lights robots
it was a very confusing time when I moved to London and the guy who was helping me move kept giving me funny looks every time I asked which robot I was supposed to turn at.
that is the coolest thing ever
officially
Thanks Rose!
Any excuse to link Top Aussie Guide, I will
http://www.geocities.com/topaussieguide/
who calls it a
dual carriage way? Are these the same people who call computers cpus?
A dual carriageway is different to a normal road, innit.
Two lanes each way!
I'm Mr Highway Code.
"i'm sorry mr. code, you've failed your driving test"
wait, which one is supposed to be the
'normal' once, as the right except for carriageway I use
Is your profile pic
taken downstairs in 'The Electricity Showroom'?
indeed it is...
my spiritual home, it is.
why?
Thought I recognised it.
I went there a few weeks back. It was a funny night because I was with my brother and his girlfriend and I thought that I spotted marilyninthesky. I went over and asked if it was her but it wasn't.
I'm routing for the Australians
Scar Face gets it right
every time.
*rooting
though that means something different in australian
Fancy a root love?
What does rooting mean?
What do you think it means?
Exactly like that!
well it could be a root beer
But I'm guessing sex?
Ding ding ding!
We have a winner!!
so when australians come to canada
they all laugh at the Roots Kids tshirts :)
so when australians come to canada
they all laugh at the Roots Kids tshirts :)
(doubledouble please!)
Exactly
If you wore that tshirt in Australia you would look like a definite kiddy fiddler.
like 'pomping'
Haha Pomping!
Which is also like:
-stuk haar lekker
-naai
"That's a funny name.
I'd have called it a Chizwozzah."
Don't forget 'going abroad'
It's 'going overseas' losers!
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zucchini (courgette)
mandarin (clementine, satsuma)
Mandarin
We have those, we also have Naartjies which I can't seem to find here.
Isn't naartjie just South African for mandarin?
I thought they were essentially the same.