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02 February 2012
Introduction
G'Day all,
This phrase book was originally started on an oil rig in Central Asia and was in response to the request of a true English gentleman to send him an e-mail with "...a few Australian terms on it, if you wouldn't mind, what.".
Many years, many iterations, many conversations and approximately one hundred pages later that humble e-mail grew into an unweildy word document that was too large to e-mail.
This is my first foray into the world of blogs and while I am fumbling about copying the content and dicking about with the format of the pages, please bear with me and my feeble passion fingers (everything they touch gets rooted).
This phrasebook represents all the unique slang I could think of and recall for the benefit of my foreign friends and colleagues during nearly twenty years touring the oilfields and home countries of the world.
...And now for the obligatory disclaimer.
The 'Strayan Phrasebook is accurately, honestly, amusingly politically incorrect and the habitually indignant will no doubt find plenty to cry to their therapists about.
If you are one of the habitually indignant, do everyone a favour and sod off right now. regardless of who you choose to be offended on behalf of today, your whining doesn't impress any sensible person at all.
The same is true if you don't like bad fricken language;
Just don't read it.
You will find the chapters listed to your right, created as pages and these will be added and updated as the text on the original word 97 document has it's clumsy formatting tidied up and as additional words and phrases spring to mind.
The contents are currently (will be) as follows (under construction!)
1. FIRST GREETINGS
2. WHERE’RE YA FROM MATE?
3. CHEWING THE FAT
4. WHADDAYA DO MATE?
5. STICKS AND STONES
6. RECREATION
7. TIME FOR A FEED (DINING OUT)
8. ON THE PISS (DRINKING)
9. WANNA ROOT?
10. I FEEL CROOK (HEALTH)
11. IN THE DUNNY
12. WALKABOUT (GOING PLACES)
13. ...AND GETTING THERE
14. NICE COSSIE (FASHION)
15. UN ZID
Copyoulater,
Erny.
This phrase book was originally started on an oil rig in Central Asia and was in response to the request of a true English gentleman to send him an e-mail with "...a few Australian terms on it, if you wouldn't mind, what.".
Many years, many iterations, many conversations and approximately one hundred pages later that humble e-mail grew into an unweildy word document that was too large to e-mail.
This is my first foray into the world of blogs and while I am fumbling about copying the content and dicking about with the format of the pages, please bear with me and my feeble passion fingers (everything they touch gets rooted).
This phrasebook represents all the unique slang I could think of and recall for the benefit of my foreign friends and colleagues during nearly twenty years touring the oilfields and home countries of the world.
...And now for the obligatory disclaimer.
The 'Strayan Phrasebook is accurately, honestly, amusingly politically incorrect and the habitually indignant will no doubt find plenty to cry to their therapists about.
If you are one of the habitually indignant, do everyone a favour and sod off right now. regardless of who you choose to be offended on behalf of today, your whining doesn't impress any sensible person at all.
The same is true if you don't like bad fricken language;
Just don't read it.
You will find the chapters listed to your right, created as pages and these will be added and updated as the text on the original word 97 document has it's clumsy formatting tidied up and as additional words and phrases spring to mind.
The contents are currently (will be) as follows (under construction!)
1. FIRST GREETINGS
2. WHERE’RE YA FROM MATE?
3. CHEWING THE FAT
4. WHADDAYA DO MATE?
5. STICKS AND STONES
6. RECREATION
7. TIME FOR A FEED (DINING OUT)
8. ON THE PISS (DRINKING)
9. WANNA ROOT?
10. I FEEL CROOK (HEALTH)
11. IN THE DUNNY
12. WALKABOUT (GOING PLACES)
13. ...AND GETTING THERE
14. NICE COSSIE (FASHION)
15. UN ZID
Copyoulater,
Erny.
18 January 2012
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