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gelandangan
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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Vince
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: Re: English Language |
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| hunterjoe21 wrote: |
SwampFox
The exuberance of your verbosity is much too copious for my diminutive comprehension...
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| keetoowah wrote: |
My my hunterjoe what a virile way of utilizing your vocabulary, here I thought you were just another good ole boy. my apalogizes.
I do know of another in here with a voracious way of speaking with a cornucopia of witty phrases. in english and cunuckastanian. |
My goodness, now there's a bombastic display of eloquence if ever I saw one. On the strength of that I think I might pop off to bed and soliloquize to myself.
Well said Gelan. Actually, the Aussie form of the English language is called Strine, although the term Strine actually refers more to our vocal "sense of humour".
A Guide to Strine
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Dimitri
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: Re: English Language |
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*fakes a Aussie accent* Well Vince my mate, hows the Aussie Strine over there in woop woop ?? I do believe I'm a not the full quid & I'm a dag, but I just might make a quid even though I don't yakka now. Which making a quid might just be important as what kind of sheila would even bother with a not tall poppies bloke like myself. 
Sorry couldn't help myself  :haha:
Anyawys, seems to me quite a few of those Aussie terms are used over here as well based on that list.
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Vince is Dimitri speaking fairdikum?
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Bushmaster
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Yeah Vince...I was noticing on the news that your throat might be a bit parched and your tongue might look a bit like a dry lake bed these days...
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Dimitri
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Its thunder storming here Vince you can have all this rain if you'd like.
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gelandangan
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Dimitri, yes it is raining here at East coast, but problem is the rain don't go far enough inland to where our dams are.
So beside giving our lawn some water, it does practically nothing to the drought.
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Dimitri
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Ah, I don't really know the weather patterns in Australia I got to admit.  But my comment on raining is that its raining here right now, in Toronto Canada.
Well hopefully there will be some rain in the interior of Australia in that case Gelan.
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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| Bushmaster wrote: |
| Yeah Vince...I was noticing on the news that your throat might be a bit parched and your tongue might look a bit like a dry lake bed these days... |
You are right there Bushy....drier than a dead dingo's donga....or drier than a ********.....can't say that here....not nice.
My home brew is maturing nicely.....good to drink now, be better in a month though. 
| gelandangan wrote: |
Dimitri, yes it is raining here at East coast, but problem is the rain don't go far enough inland to where our dams are.
So beside giving our lawn some water, it does practically nothing to the drought. |
You are right there Gelan.....rain just isn't falling in our catchment areas for some reason. The Wivenhoe Dam in Brisbane is down towards 15%-16% capacity...not good.
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gelandangan
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Mate,
I been to Manilla (North of Tamworth www.walkabout.com.au/l...illa.shtml ) this Easter past.
Manilla used to be (and still is) called a Freshwater Fisherman's Paradise.
Guess what, Split Rock Dam in Manilla is down to its creek bed...
I was counting on taking some water from the dam for baths, and end up with 3 days worth of body stink  because I could not get to water. What water we brought with us is used to wash the missus and daughters.....
But then again, a manly man like myself don't need to smell like flowers
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: English Language |
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Bushmaster
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: Re: English Language |
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1895zz if you smelled like Galandangan you couldn't smell him nor he smell you...So what would be the problem?...Oh yeah...The women...They could smell ya a mile away down wind...Ya'd never catch up with'em...Let alone sneak up on'em...
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: Re: English Language |
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