Rupert Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 You have never heard slang used in the Sydney CBD? I find that hard to believe. May I refer you to post 11, then you can comment on what I have actually said. I have suggested that OP does not need to worry about getting up to speed with slang and it is very easy to understand people. And no I have had no trouble whatsoever in conversing with the locals in Sydney, or anywhere else in Australia for that matter. Perhaps I could refer you to posts 7, 9 and 11 where a few others have suggested the same. Why not go and pick on them, instead of jumping on the lets-give-as-much-grief-as-possible-to-Rupert bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petals Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Please do not play the person and keep on track, if I had put this post up I would be heading for the woods now, just a simple question and now we have people being upset, chill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeboard1980 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 So do you agree it is ok to make rude personal comments? That was what I meant, but perhaps I was not clear enough. Oh and as a rule, I do not do background research on posters before replying. Re the blog, well maybe the link wasn't there when OP first posted and many people start their blog before their travels and in any case I rarely pay attention to signatures anyway. I read the post. Hope that is ok with you, or is that something else you want to pick holes in. Oh come on, you can't seriously be that wound up by those comments. You are carrying on worse than the comments you are complaining about. And the one that you initially jumped on to start with......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeboard1980 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I really wouldn't worry about this stuff. I have never heard anyone use the expressions mentioned on this thread. There are one or two words that they use differently, thongs for flip flops comes to mind. Otherwise they speak the same. I don't believe you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeboard1980 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 She'll be right mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeboard1980 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Slang is alive and well on the building sites in Sydney. and to the OP smoko was, and still is the morning break on site. Then you have lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Oh come on, you can't seriously be that wound up by those comments. You are carrying on worse than the comments you are complaining about. And the one that you initially jumped on to start with......... Wound up, no i am having a cup of tea and relaxing. But yes i am annoyed that I ask politely for a clarification and the response is to have my personality and posting history commented upon in a negative manner. It was rude and uncalled for. And as for you, well you are being a bit pathetic jumping in like this. Did you join in when you saw somebody being picked on by school bullies as well? Did it make you feel tough? Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeegieDave Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Someone has seriously taken something the wrong way!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Someone has seriously taken something the wrong way!! Are you referring to me? If so, perhaps you could tell me how I should have taken the unnecessary personal comment. There didn't seem to be a good way to take it. And I don't see why I should have to accept that people can make comments like that out of the blue. Do you know what, the people on this forum make me sick sometimes. I am often noted as one of ht e most helpful posters on here and yet I am one of the most abused and picked on as well. And I am supposed to just take it and every character dissection that goes with it. But no I am really sick of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeegieDave Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Are you referring to me? If so, perhaps you could tell me how I should have taken the unnecessary personal comment. There didn't seem to be a good way to take it. And I don't see why I should have to accept that people can make comments like that out of the blue. Do you know what, the people on this forum make me sick sometimes. I am often noted as one of ht e most helpful posters on here and yet I am one of the most abused and picked on as well. And I am supposed to just take it and every character dissection that goes with it. But no I am really sick of it. You are very helpful but I do think you have defo taken things the wrong way and too seriously! You need to kick back with a massage and a french martini! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skani Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 So do you agree it is ok to make rude personal comments? No...but I didn't think the comment was rude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Skani I see you posted something, but I updated my ignore list so assuming it was more of the same, save your energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest16631 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 ...........:hug: Rupert.........and so sorry you feel picked on...... ..........our meanings so often get lost in our words.....ime..... .........and sometimes it's best to just leave it there.... .........as the tangle gets worse when we try to pull it undone...... ........and Ozzie slang......depends on who you mix with ime...... ..........I hear a lot in the markets......:biggrin: ...........but little in Myers........:wideeyed: ............no hard and fast rule ime.......tink x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest30085 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 A lot of crossed wires on this thread ... and over slang as well. It's almost as bad as the 'price of lemons' thread. People were infracted/banned over that one I think :rolleyes: I think there's been a problem of taking some posts literally, I don't think anyone intended for it to cause offence. Ive heard slang/sayings even in cities, still get 'howyagoin' every time I speak to the 'rellies', who still go for a smoko, it's alive and well as far as I can see (hear) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I intended my post to cause offence tbh:biggrin::wubclub: Gnite ma'am one's 0orrffffFF:jimlad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest16631 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 .......there's sometimes one....... .......but don't believe it's you Pablo......! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I think the 'how ya going?' stopped approx 10 years ago together with 'beaut,' 'fair dinkum' and 'if he had another brain it'd be lonely' Is "How yer going", slang though or just slack Aussie pronunciation that caught on. It's obvious what it refers to . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 .......there's sometimes one..............but don't believe it's you Pablo......! Im too good for all that Tink,im only kidding,Gnite!x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I think that people think we do not use slang anymore but seriously we use it every day. Aussie slang is alive and well, just have to mix with the Aussies. I know that I say "Good Day"a lot, How you going, etc etc. Many many other things get said as well and even if we do not use them ourselves we know what they mean. So its confusing when people first come to Aus, especially as we call things by different names here as well. We tend to use the slang if others are using it and its not being smart of anything its just what people do. Is Aussie slang really so confusing though? The odd word or expression is usually self explanatory I'd have thought through the context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 wrong and wrong IMO. I live on the edge of melly and its alive and kicking. Not rural and remote. The Cities are where its being killed off, but get outside the sprawl and hit the normal country towns and its normal. They do but as nearly everyone lives in a city or very large town overall it is hardly normal as in numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 A mod has kindly asked you to get this thread back on track now please do that. Do you think this bickering is helping the OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skani Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Is Aussie slang really so confusing though? Well, the OP was stumped by dunny and smoko...and they would be two of the more common words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 *Ahem* I've deleted stuff that was carrying on the stuff you've been asked to move on from twice now, and will be deleting any more stuff about the stuff posted in the future. No third time lucky Fankoo very muchly in advance and all that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Bickering eh:no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossom Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I hear Aussie slang every single day. Smoko for tea break. Dunny is an occasional one, but I do hear it sometimes, always warms my heart. :-) Blue for a red headed person. Mole for a skanky woman. Tinny for a beer. Chewie for gum. Franger for condom. That's all I can think of at the mo, but I'm sure there are lots more. I'm in Adelaide, so not exactly remote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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