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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by medwaymark
(Post 8908578)
My girlfriend is a born & bread Aussie, with possibly the strongest Aussie accent you're likely to hear. We have been together nearly a year & we understand most things each other is likely to say these days. I still have to explain some of the jokes on the uk comedies we watch, but that's more to do with the lack of knowledge of uk personalities.
I said something last night which she didn't understand......"oh my giddy aunt". Was quite amusing explaining what I meant by that. Anyone else still have surprises in language still? |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 8909921)
The brass monkey was a thing used to hold balls on old sailing ships. Not sure why :lol:
I sometimes use 'parky', I must have picked it up 'up north'. As a kid, we said 'taters'. PS: I just checked. I got that slightly wrong. They were rectangular with rounded corners but the balls were still stacked in a pyramid. Here's a piccie http://aquaether.com/blog/wp-content...ass_monkey.jpg |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by sammax
(Post 8909937)
PS: It's "born and bred" !! hehe
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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8909957)
To stop the balls rolling around. It was a triangle and they used to stack the balls in a (3-sided) pyramid. In cold weather the brass used to contract and the balls would fall off.
PS: I just checked. I got that slightly wrong. They were rectangular with rounded corners but the balls were still stacked in a pyramid. Here's a piccie http://aquaether.com/blog/wp-content...ass_monkey.jpg |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8909957)
To stop the balls rolling around. It was a triangle and they used to stack the balls in a (3-sided) pyramid. In cold weather the brass used to contract and the balls would fall off....
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp sorry to break it to you :p |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by DadAgain
(Post 8910043)
Very commonly held misconception
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp sorry to break it to you :p |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8909957)
To stop the balls rolling around. It was a triangle and they used to stack the balls in a (3-sided) pyramid. In cold weather the brass used to contract and the balls would fall off.
PS: I just checked. I got that slightly wrong. They were rectangular with rounded corners but the balls were still stacked in a pyramid. Here's a piccie http://aquaether.com/blog/wp-content...ass_monkey.jpg
Originally Posted by DadAgain
(Post 8910043)
Very commonly held misconception
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp sorry to break it to you :p All sounds a bit poxy to me. |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 8910063)
All sounds a bit poxy to me.
about it.:rofl: Apparently Geordie is the hardest accent to understand, no wonder I have problems! http://newslite.tv/2010/08/04/geordi...e-hardest.html |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by kelli28
(Post 8910087)
Chuffin nora hu's ya fettle, how about we have a chin wag
about it.:rofl: Apparently Geordie is the hardest accent to understand, no wonder I have problems! http://newslite.tv/2010/08/04/geordi...e-hardest.html |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by DadAgain
(Post 8910043)
Very commonly held misconception
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp sorry to break it to you :p |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8909957)
To stop the balls rolling around. It was a triangle and they used to stack the balls in a (3-sided) pyramid. In cold weather the brass used to contract and the balls would fall off.
PS: I just checked. I got that slightly wrong. They were rectangular with rounded corners but the balls were still stacked in a pyramid. Here's a piccie http://aquaether.com/blog/wp-content...ass_monkey.jpg
Originally Posted by DadAgain
(Post 8910043)
Very commonly held misconception
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp sorry to break it to you :p
Originally Posted by MartinLuther
(Post 8910107)
Ah well. Live and learn. :huh:
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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Dorothy
(Post 8910209)
For those of us who are impressed with this kind of shit it really is a lovely symmetrical pyramid of cannon balls though.
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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Dorothy
(Post 8909684)
Not English or Australian but know all of them except Parky. They're common to a lot of countries.
*And they might have picked it up from The Bill. I often get asked to trot out a London accent...women in particular love it. |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 8910396)
*And they might have picked it up from The Bill. I often get asked to trot out a London accent...women in particular love it. |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by expatasia
(Post 8910407)
What kind of women?
What really baffles me is that many Australian women like accents which are regarded as not that special in the UK. To be fair - I think they like a wide variety (copyright Mike Stanton 2004) and just hone in on certain aspects of them. Bits of it here and there - they really identify with a character from the Bill - say, or a tv show here or there. Then they claim to hear it in you - even though noone from the UK would agree! My latest one is - apparently I sound like Bear Grylls!! They conceded that I had picked up some aspects of Australian which pleased me because if people in the UK think that - there must be some truth in it. Nothing worse with being stuck with a non-accent...There was a bloke there who had spent time in London and he had some very interesting London-like diction himself - which I pointed out - he was very pleased with himself, too. |
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