Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Oct 28th 2006, 8:58 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by brussels_sprout
"Giving someone the head-up" is the strangest NZ expression that i have heard (i have not got there yet), which means "enlightening" or "informing"
Oct 28th 2006, 9:08 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by Apple12
"heads up" ie raising one's eyes from one's work to listen to another.
Oct 28th 2006, 9:14 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by brussels_sprout
"Giving someone the head-up" is the strangest NZ expression that i have heard (i have not got there yet), which means "enlightening" or "informing"
Oct 28th 2006, 11:22 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by poppets
Sparrow fart - very early in the morning, sunrise 
Oct 28th 2006, 11:30 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by Batty
Thanks for this - someone sent me an email with this at the end of it the other day and I had no idea what she was talking about
One I heard on the radio the other day for the Uk was Witches Knickers!!!! (Apparantly what they call old carrier bags hanging from trees)
Oct 28th 2006, 11:31 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by poppets
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Oct 29th 2006, 12:11 am
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
THANKYOU ALL so much for such a hillarious read. Love the way you all hear what us Kiwis say. Good thing some of us dont mind having the piss taken out of ourselves huh?
While thats how you all hear what is being said it really isnt how its being said at all. Bit like someone hearing their own voice after its been recorded for the first time...hard to believe its you & we've all been guilty of saying at some time"Is that really how I sound?"
Laugh all you like cos to be perfectly honest all us Kiwis take the piss out of the different accents you all have too. My personal favourites come from Liverpool & London. Love the cockney lingo, but then my old Granny was a cockney so was well used to it.
Living here in the US they love to take the piss out of me for the way I say Pepsi. I think they are all bonkers myself, they are the ones with the accent not me!!!!
While thats how you all hear what is being said it really isnt how its being said at all. Bit like someone hearing their own voice after its been recorded for the first time...hard to believe its you & we've all been guilty of saying at some time"Is that really how I sound?"
Laugh all you like cos to be perfectly honest all us Kiwis take the piss out of the different accents you all have too. My personal favourites come from Liverpool & London. Love the cockney lingo, but then my old Granny was a cockney so was well used to it.
Living here in the US they love to take the piss out of me for the way I say Pepsi. I think they are all bonkers myself, they are the ones with the accent not me!!!!
Oct 29th 2006, 3:27 am
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
It's all 'turned to custard'
Meaning: It's gone titsup / wrong.
Q: How are you today?
Reply: Box a birds (feelilng good and chirpy).
Meaning: It's gone titsup / wrong.
Q: How are you today?
Reply: Box a birds (feelilng good and chirpy).
Oct 29th 2006, 3:49 am
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Feeling a bit crook meaning they're ill.
Oct 29th 2006, 10:37 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
The plural of "a woman" is "woman" rather than "women" and its not a pronunciation thing either.
for example:
NZ was the first country in the world to give woman the vote.
Once you tune to it you hear it everywhere.
Bob
for example:
NZ was the first country in the world to give woman the vote.
Once you tune to it you hear it everywhere.
Bob
Oct 29th 2006, 10:59 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by sky
Feeling a bit crook meaning they're ill.
Oct 29th 2006, 11:03 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by shepslady
sorry to say this but you live there now so how long before it stops becoming them & us.....as in they're ill.....are you never going to feel like you belong there or will you make the journey back to the UK again & make that home for you once again?
Oct 30th 2006, 12:13 am
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by Jack Daws
I think you will find she doesnt mean it like us and them. I think she's writting it in the 3rd person
Oct 30th 2006, 3:19 am
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
The bash = beaten up
As in "He got the bash last Saturday night".
As in "He got the bash last Saturday night".
Oct 30th 2006, 10:21 pm
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Re: Kiwi ways of saying stuff
Originally Posted by Jack Daws
I think you will find she doesnt mean it like us and them. I think she's writting it in the 3rd person
