That was terrific. I think the aborigines won by a mile. The spears helped. (I keep expecting them to have a thong in their hand).
Agreed. I wouldn't want to face down those spears, in fact, I half suspect that's why everyone in the stands were cheering. They were grateful they were safe.
I didn't have much of a problem understanding this ...but...I just looked up Australian slang. I would be in big trouble. I learned southern English but Australian English may be harder. Do you end every sentance with mate?
No . But we do have our own words and slang. Which varies from lace to place. Where I live they use the term "gammin" for cheating and as far as I know it is peculiar to central australia
We also have different slang for different regions. I had to just about learn a different language when I moved south. I am sure it would be the same if I moved to Australia... or Ireland... or Britain.
It is kinda funny when a person tilts his head, looksat you with one eye, and says, "You ain't from round here are ya".
Even in regional Australia where I live it is so multicultural that that is not an issue. Crickey! The local McDonalds is known unofficially as the "Philippine Embassy" And it is amazing and thrilling to hear "language" spoken on the street. This is because it is still surviving and where the language is spoken the culture survives. All indigenous languages are called collectively "language" even though they are as distinct as Chinese and English.
We just about all speak American. Our culture forces immigrants to speak the way we do. But now just about everything you buy is written in Spanish and American English. We seem to also be getting a lot of Asian immigrants. I usually see them when I go fishing. It is the one place we all seem to get along...blacks, whites, Asians..etc.
Gammin or as some spell it gammon is fairly common among Aboriginals across Australia, so much so that it is written on a mural on the community centre wall at Redfern. It is believed by some to have originated from early sailors as they had a similar term for fooling around etc.