spacesailor Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 D. Trump. Laugh out loud !. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 "We shouldn't make fun of the Yanks" We'd be hard pushed for entertainment if we couldn't take the p*ss out of them. There's no shortage of material to work with there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Yeah, but it's no fun when they haven't got the brains to realise we are taking the p|ss. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Yeah, but it's no fun when they haven't got the brains to realise we are taking the p|ss. Good point, ome. But as Australians, we're duty bound to do it regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 We shouldn't make fun of the Yanks or the British for different terms for common things. It's just a matter of dialect. The British eat iced lollies. The Yank eat icy poles. We eat ice blocks. The British live in bed-sits. The Yanks live in apartments. We live in flats. <snip> <pedantic on> The British call flats, flats.. I think Melbournians, if not the rest of Austrlians call flats in skycraper buildings (condominiums in US terminology), apartments. The Brits still call them flats. Bedsits are a specific type of flat where there is no separation between the bedroom, living room and often kitchen - or where the bedroom doubles as the living room because they are tiny and were originally probably going to be the communcal janotorial room but the developers eyed up an opportunity (they are too small to even contemplate the term dining room). <pedantic off> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 No apartments in Queensland; they're called units here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 And circlips are called snap rings in the US. I don't know why. Maybe theirs break easily. To me a split pin and a circlip (circular clip) describes exactly what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 No apartments in Queensland; they're called units here. Not on the Gold Coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Not on the Gold Coast Must be all the foreigners living down there, corrupting our good language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I could never get over how in QLD, a "port"= a suitcase.. I never did find the QLD word for port (the drink, or the shipping port).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Port in that instance being an abbreviation of portmanteau. A word which, itself, has two meanings. Look it up on Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Swimmers, togs or Speedos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Budgie smugglers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 They're Trunks in my neck of the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Port is too shortened - next they will be referring to mushrooms (as in Portabello) or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Swimmers, togs or Speedos? Bathers in SA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 A couple of examples of the other meaning of portmanteau, combining two words to create a third: Breakfast + lunch = Brunch Video + log = Vlog Web + log = Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Budgie smugglers. That is a universal term, like Ugg Boots. It's not a dialectic term like "port", "togs" etc. What's the South Australian word for the processed meat others call "devon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Fritz. Which state refers to potato cakes as scallops, which are really a seafood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 What's the South Australian word for the processed meat others call "devon? fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Which state refers to potato cakes as scallops, which are really a seafood. NSW. And Queenslanders call it Peanut Paste, not Peanut Butter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Devon is a county in England. The processed stuff you mostly buy sliced is also Luncheon sausage or Belgium sausage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Gyros and kebabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 What are Hairpins made of.? I know some people like bikes but having them as children is a giant step. Motorbikes maybe? Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 NSW. And Queenslanders call it Peanut Paste, not Peanut Butter. And in Queensland we have potato scallops as well. And swimming togs. One thing to note is that Queensland has had massive migration from the southern states, and terminology has been imported with them. So it mixes the terminology up a bit. I don't know the numbers, but I'd guess only about half of Queenslanders these days come from original Queensland born & bred stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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