Aussie slang dying out?

Post by **GT93** » May 27, 2014, 3:06 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/m ... -dying-out

OK you Aussie mongrels and gentlemen, is Aussie slang, despite wassa's best efforts, dying out?

Post by **Earnest** » May 28, 2014, 1:14 am

When does Australian colloquialism become slang?

Post by **Aardvark** » May 28, 2014, 11:05 am

Good question Ernie ...

Post by **fatbob** » May 28, 2014, 11:37 am

Is this the Aussie slang you mean, my Grandad used to talk like this, classic.

In Melbourne the other day, caught the bread and jam to the rubetty dub, ordered some amber fluid, no money in the sky rocket what a blue that was, thought I'm gonna bail outa the big smoke to the back o bourke, met bluey on the way and he joined me until we had a blue, bloody bogan, after that had to many coldies until I had a chunder, fair dinkum, the coppers got me and through me in the divvy van, bloody drongos, anyway....

Post by **Barney** » May 28, 2014, 12:07 pm

coxo wrote:Is this the Aussie slang you mean, my Grandad used to talk like this, classic.

In Melbourne the other day, caught the bread and jam to the rubetty dub, ordered some amber fluid, no money in the sky rocket what a blue that was, thought I'm gonna bail outa the big smoke to the back o bourke, met bluey on the way and he joined me until we had a blue, bloody bogan, after that had to many coldies until I had a chunder, fair dinkum, the coppers got me and through me in the divvy van, bloody drongos, anyway....

Sounds nearly normal aussie talk to me and understood completely except that when your grandad was moving his north and south it had a Mexican accent.
Us toffs from up north would have been thrown in the paddy wagon, we don't have real bogans just good lookalike copies.

Post by **pmc** » May 28, 2014, 12:21 pm

there is a series on melb tv at the moment called the bogan hunters..travelling around aus to find the worse there is all on centrelink payments.drinking piss smoking dope and all the kids running around with 3 fathers in most cases, aussie slang
alive and well.

Post by **Bandung_Dero** » May 28, 2014, 12:50 pm

Isn't any wonder with the invasion of Kiwis and any one else who can paddle a boat!

Post by **GT93** » May 28, 2014, 1:33 pm

pmc wrote:there is a series on melb tv at the moment called the bogan hunters..travelling around aus to find the worse there is all on centrelink payments.drinking piss smoking dope and all the kids running around with 3 fathers in most cases, aussie slang
alive and well.

Oz loves those kinds of programmes where the TV viewer gets to peer into the lives or stupidities of those not that successful. Sam Newman's Street Talk comes to mind. Humans can be truly amazing. Good to see Aussie slang alive and well. Some of it is so entrenched in NZ we might not even recognise it as Australian.

Post by **Aardvark** » May 28, 2014, 1:53 pm

My old mate maaka always calls me Cobber

Post by **stattointhailand** » May 28, 2014, 2:01 pm

Aardvark wrote:My old mate maaka always calls me Cobber

Is that an Aussie shoemaker Aardy

Post by **747man** » May 28, 2014, 2:03 pm

Aardvark wrote:My old mate maaka always calls me Cobber

No Wuckin' Furries Then Mark.....

Post by **maaka** » May 28, 2014, 2:46 pm

Oh fiar suck of the sav Fella's . I am just back on shanks pony from the Wop Wops, and you buggers are into me like a Abo at a bottle O..Fair dinkum..What are ya, ruddy Pin Heads, or from Mango country ..

Post by **wallylee** » May 28, 2014, 7:35 pm

Hey Maaka,
The Aborigines cop enough flack in Oz, no need to make those sort of remarks, on a public forum.

Post by **maaka** » May 29, 2014, 2:20 am

Point taken Wal..
as of indigenous Maori decent myself, and the brunt of similar remarks, I should no better
thanks for pulling me up..

Post by **Earnest** » May 29, 2014, 2:26 am

Barney wrote:...we don't have real bogans just good lookalike copies.

'Time out for Brits and Yanks'.

Bogan - an uncouth Australian (maybe even Kiwis too).

Post by **GT93** » May 29, 2014, 4:24 am

We use the word "bogan" in NZ but not a lot. Bangers and Pattaya are full of bogans.

We don't use the words "budgie smugglers" - a skimpy male swimming costume not leaving enough to the imagination. They are the current Aussie PM's favourite outfit.

If they're worn by a male porn star perhaps they should be called python smugglers.

Post by **jackspratt** » May 29, 2014, 8:12 am

I am not sure "bogan" was a term that would have been used by coxo's grandfather. It certainly wasn't by my grandfather, nor my father for that matter - who as ex-navy, and then a carpenter and builder, used most of the colloquialisms that I grew up with.

Post by **fatbob** » May 29, 2014, 8:22 am

Sorry Jack, I wrote that ditty not dear old Grandad, merely an expression of the style he spoke as he grew up in working class Kensington working on the railways. The term 'bogan' however is classed as Aussie slang as the thread is titled and was added by me at my discretion while I had a bit of fun writing, having a chuckle and remembering my grandfather. Analyzing a light hearted ditty would worry me, could it be 'to much time and nothing to do'.

Post by **GT93** » May 30, 2014, 11:33 am

Here's one I have just learned - Lozies - lazy Australians.

http://www.watoday.com.au/comment/lazy- ... zrrs6.html

This link says there are lots of hard working immigrants in Australia. It's the same in NZ. I'm surprised at the UK posters who state the immigrants into the UK are lazy and bludgers.

Post by **Earnest** » May 30, 2014, 3:23 pm

So a bludger is a lazy person? How quaint.

I myself like the collective noun, chooks. Is that Australian slang? Do the people of the Dominions also speak of hens and chickens like we do in the mother country?