[QUOTE=seba079;49705008]My American friends started to use 'to try to [do sth]' instead of 'to want to [do sth]' which I don't understand[/QUOTE]
I never really thought about it but "I'm tryna [do something]" or "I ain't tryna [do something]" are pretty common English phrases that do sound weird when you don't know the context.
A person I knew in high school who moved from across the country called McDonald's "Mickey's," and would say stuff like "You wanna get a Mickey?" Where I'm from, a "mickey" refers to a handjob, so that conversation led to some awkward moments.
It's interesting how all these different places have slang terms for McDonald's - "Maccas," "Mickey D's," etc. Around here if you're going to McDonald's you're "going for a Don's run."
The maccas run is a great pilgrimage undertaken by all Australians several times per year, often before or after a night of drinking.
You can call someone here a fag and they won't be [i]that[/i] offended, compared to if you call them a poofta. THAT is the nuclear option.
If you're a soldier, you're not called a soldier. You're a digger.
Everyone is your mate, even if you're just about to bash each other.
But most Australian slang is derived from attempting to use as few brain cells as possible during conversation, by shortening nouns. Tradesman? Fuck no, they're a tradie. Poker machine? What the fuck does that mean? Don't you mean pokies? And if you live in a housing commission, you're a houso - which is occasionally interchangeable with derro or bogan.
People who migrate to us Floridians from up north are called snowbirds.
We fucking hate them.
6 feet under means to die.
Why? The standard depth to bury someone is six feet.
[QUOTE=BigWhitey;49708865]The maccas run is a great pilgrimage undertaken by all Australians several times per year, often before or after a night of drinking.
You can call someone here a fag and they won't be [i]that[/i] offended, compared to if you call them a poofta. THAT is the nuclear option.
If you're a soldier, you're not called a soldier. You're a digger.
Everyone is your mate, even if you're just about to bash each other.
But most Australian slang is derived from attempting to use as few brain cells as possible during conversation, by shortening nouns. Tradesman? Fuck no, they're a tradie. Poker machine? What the fuck does that mean? Don't you mean pokies? And if you live in a housing commission, you're a houso - which is occasionally interchangeable with derro or bogan.[/QUOTE]
Kinda off topic but is it true that it's considered offensive to give a thumbs up in Australia? My old English teacher always went on about how it's worse than flipping someone off.
I don't know if I'm spelling this right, but my family uses this strange word for cigarettes.
Bawkie.
Like "has he been smoking the bawkie".
Oh and it's a scottish thing apparently.
In Norway, we have suffixes like "ern/ærn" and "ings" that can be attached to pretty much any word to turn it into a slang.
For example "mækkern" is a common slang for McDonald's. "Mækk" is how "mac" is pronounced in Norwegian.
As an example for the second one, we have "dritings" which means "wasted". "Drit" means shit.
These suffixes are also common in stoner slang. Examples:
"Mekkings" = A cigarette or tobacco prior to mixing with cannabis or a finished mix of cannabis and tobacco. "Mekk" derives from engineer/mechanic slang and most often refers to fixing something up, like a car.
Similarily we have "mekkern" which refers to the person that is mixing tobacco and cannabis in preparation for rolling a joint. "Mekkern trekkern" is a common rule where the person who rolls the joint will take the first hit.
"Pissings" refers to urine drug tests which the government imposes on teenagers that are caught with possession. Typically they're given a deal where they piss in a cup once a week for 6 months to up to a year as an alternative to fines and criminal records.
Cunt can either be an insult or a compliment, i.e "Daveo you're a fucking dog cunt" = bad :(; "I fucking swear Timmo's the fucking toppest cunt out" = good :)
there's also the whole "Yeah nah, nah yeah" thing. "Nah yeah" = yes; "Yeah nah" = no
In W.A. people also use unna and dardy, god knows what they fucking mean but I think they're some ye olde Aboriginal thing
[editline]10th February 2016[/editline]
also tradie slang is great, "yeah nah me and old cob Steveo are gonna have a fat yarn during smoko about how that cunt old mate yobbo Robbo yacked his fuckin' hole after a goon bag last night" = "Nah, me and my workmate Steve are going to have a long discussion during our lunch break about how our friend Rob threw up after drinking casked wine last night"
[QUOTE=maeZtro;49711405]Kinda off topic but is it true that it's considered offensive to give a thumbs up in Australia? My old English teacher always went on about how it's worse than flipping someone off.[/QUOTE]
No, not at all. It's just a thumbs up.
In Cantonese:
"Hitting an Airplane" - Masturbation
In Mandarin:
"Shooting your handgun" - Masturbation
"The feels".
This phrase drives me insane. It seems to take all emotional value out of whatever caused "the feels" and transform it into mindless 'interwebz speek". It comes across as insulting to both the entity that caused the emotional response and to the person experiencing the emotional response.
some general aus or queenslander ones
Pingas/Dingbats/Dingers - ecstasy
Speed dealers - sunglasses that make you look like you're unbelievably high
Cooked cunt - high to the verge of death
Goey - usually any drug, mostly speed
Sniff - petrol, usually said to stereotype the Indigenous
Maggoted - drunk or high again
Bottle o - liquor shop
Durry, Darb - cigarettes
Dog - traitor
Old mate - someone you can't remember the name of in a story but your mate most likely knows
Dennis Ferguson - Notorious Australian paedophile, usually a de facto name you call a Paedo around here if the media won't reveal their identity
De Facto - bogan term for relationship since it's used on centrelink papers
This cunt - you did something remarkably in character
Darbin Dog - someone who won't quit smoking
Shazza - bogan nickname for a girl
"Got a dollar for the bus?" - term said to strangers in order to get petty change to buy something other than a bus ticket
RBT - Random breath test
"Wanna go me?" - fighting term
Root - sex
Pig dog - police officer
Ambo - Ambulance
"Fuck me!" - term used after doing a bad thing or committing a mistake
QUEENSLANNNDERRRRRRR!!!! - term used by bogans as a way of saying "don't talk to me unless you can speak in basic year 3 English"
Brisvegas - term used by someone to talk about Brisbane in a high manner but stops as soon as they're informed for the 9th time how Brisbane is fucking terrible
The switch - slang for Ipswich, where i come from, fucking dumb
The Valley/Fortitude - slang for Fortitude Valley, notorious Brisbane suburb with all the clubs
Coward Punch - term used by the media and politicians among others to unglorify "King Hit" - where you hit someone from the back in the head unsuspectedly
Daniel Morcombe - Queensland boy who disappeared in 2003 and was later found murdered, often said by people to make child abductions scarier, also said by smartarse high school students to get free bus fare under some "hidden law" that doesn't exist
Sully - term used for a Samoan and by them as well
HJ's - hungry jacks, or burger king as the rest of you know
Sully van/Church van/people mover - van that fits more than 5 people
Commo - Holden commodore car, also said mostly by bogans after they spend their entire fortnightly centrelink on car upgrades
Shit box - car that somehow got a road worthy certificate
Maines - going down the street than back up the street, or going in a loop, pointless driving
that's all i can think of right now, will add more later
'tbh fam'
[video=youtube;fXSLcYQHqFQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSLcYQHqFQ[/video]
Not too much slang, but this is relavant ^
[QUOTE='KING]THT[WRATH;49727985']"The feels".
This phrase drives me insane. It seems to take all emotional value out of whatever caused "the feels" and transform it into mindless 'interwebz speek". It comes across as insulting to both the entity that caused the emotional response and to the person experiencing the emotional response.[/QUOTE]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EIemaKycNo[/media]
[editline]20th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=MyBumBum;49719424]In Cantonese:
"Hitting an Airplane" - Masturbation
In Mandarin:
"Shooting your handgun" - Masturbation[/QUOTE]
"hitting an airplane" is also what it is in mando but the word for "hit" can also mean play, for example it can be used when saying playing games. so it's probably more "play with your airplane"
Here are some more finnish slangs.
[B]Fobba[/b]: At first it only referred to one specific famous internetpolice named Marko "Fobba" Forss, then it came to refer to all internetpolice and then it just became a term for the police, usually police patrols.
[B]Mäyräkoira[/b]: literally translated it's dachshund, but commonly refers to a 12-pack of glasbottle beer.
[B]Amis[/b]: Basically finnish bogans. Usually wears workwear such as an oily bomber, high visibility trousers, steeltoed boots and a brand cap (usually of beer). The drive junkyard cars that are badly "pimped" and ride around playing finnish 90's pop.
- In ostrobottnia, where a majority of inhabitants speak swedish, these kinds of people are referred to as "Raggare" which is a swedish word for rowdy rockabillies.
[b]Riskokare[/b]: literally translated it's ricecooker ie. a machine that cooks rice. Used in ostrobottnia by fenno-swedes to negatively refer to someone with asian ancestry.
[b]Karhukopla[/b]: Literally translated it's "The Bear Gang", but is also the name of the Beagle Boys in the finnish version of the Donald Duck comics. Refers to the finnish Police Rapid Response Unit or PRRU (basically S.W.A.T) which is codenamed Bear-group (Karhu-ryhmä).
[QUOTE=Samson0722;49772329][video=youtube;fXSLcYQHqFQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSLcYQHqFQ[/video]
Not too much slang, but this is relavant ^[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;pkzVOXKXfQk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkzVOXKXfQk[/video]
I've got a few from around.
In Scotland, if you call someone a "weapon" it's actually a callback to a much older term, to be an "old battleaxe" or more specifically a woman you're married to, but can't leave, even if she's insufferable. Though the term has become more of a broad one.
In Finland, employees of the company my father works at couldn't pronounce the names of the local restaurants, and seeing as they were all on the same street all next to each other, they simply started referring to them as R1, R2, R3, and so forth. It has such a memetic quality that even [I]the residents of the town[/I] have taken to referring to them like that.
Also, the Swedish "yes" reminded me of the Danish "yes", where if you inhale while saying yes, it's actually a sarcastic way of saying you don't believe what someone is telling you.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;49766820]some general aus or queenslander ones
Pingas/Dingbats/Dingers - ecstasy
Speed dealers - sunglasses that make you look like you're unbelievably high[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/yKVrPH5.jpg[/t]
In the part of Sweden where I live, we use "Kräk" to refer to cows.
It essentially translates to wretch or bastard. :v:
"A flap" (Läppä) is a slang word for "A joke" (Vitsi) in Finnish.
Round here your urethra is called a 'Jap's eye' because it looks like a Japanese man's eye
Over here we mix languages in a single sentence so often I don't even know our slang anymore, other than the typical SE-Asia "lah" and "leh".
Oh we have a lot of dumb local memes involving our circus politicians so that's one thing.
[QUOTE=Noob4life;49799944]Over here we mix languages in a single sentence so often I don't even know our slang anymore, other than the typical SE-Asia "lah" and "leh".
Oh we have a lot of dumb local memes involving our [B]circus politicians[/B] so that's one thing.[/QUOTE]
What is a circus politician?
[QUOTE=Ghost_Nixon;49800086]What is a circus politician?[/QUOTE]
On top of the usual political drama, our cabinet members sometimes say and do some of the stupidest shit,
sometimes it is a red herring to distract citizens from bigger issues, sometimes they really are just being a religious twat.
Well, I can give you a few ancient examples:
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-26564562[/url]
[url]http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/malaysias-kangkung-meme/[/url]
The usage of circus probably came from Chinese, but as I said, honestly I don't even know anymore.
[QUOTE='KING]THT[WRATH;49727985']"The feels".
This phrase drives me insane. It seems to take all emotional value out of whatever caused "the feels" and transform it into mindless 'interwebz speek". It comes across as insulting to both the entity that caused the emotional response and to the person experiencing the emotional response.[/QUOTE]
It's hilarious to me that the internet literally turned emotions into a meme
A fairly recent term which has entered everyday British conversation is 'bare', which means 'a lot of' or 'very'. So if something was 'bare laughs', it was a lot of fun.
"Let's go for a cheeky nandos" = I'd like to announce I am a cultural tumour
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;49695774]My friends and I who smoke marijuana have created a very elaborate slang language regarding pot.
We call it Jones (as in, "We're jonesing for some Jones," where 'jonesing' itself is slang for wanting something very much.) We then call each other Jones, and the main weed man of the group is Papa Jones. The rest of our slang is influenced mostly from Tim and Eric sketches and Doug Prishpreed. The five core people in our smoke group are Short Dads (from the Short Dad's Bowling Pageant with Doug Prishpreed.) Anyone else who we smoke with are Tall Boys (opposite of Short Dads.) Eyedrops used to remove the redeye from smoking were originally called Short Dad's Redness Reliever, but one night, we got so high that we called it Red Dad's Shortness Reliever, so now we only call it Shortness Reliever. Therefore, when we get baked, we're not "baked", we're "short". Whenever we party, we call it a Dumpster Dive (from the Bag Boy pilot episode with Doug Prishpreed.) Occasionally, someone will smoke too much and pass out. If they pass out before 3 AM, it is known as "kleeping," although I have no idea why we call it that. If we're hitting dabs, they're not dabs, they're "dads." Anyone who isn't cool with smoking or tries to show off and smoke too much are "sus as fuck" or "a sus nigga" or simply "sus," which is code for suspicious, shady, uncool. We're also all fond of imitating the strange hand motions that Doug Prishpreed pulls off while looking into the camera.
Basically, we made our own secret stoner language.[/QUOTE]
all that sounds australian as fuck
In Sweden, if someone says that "you've taken a shit in the blue locker" it means you're in trouble or that you fucked up
"Donken" is slang for McDonald's
In Östergötland where I'm from, "fjöla" is slang for taking a piss.
Theres toooons of slangs man
[editline]27th February 2016[/editline]
"Slå en sjua" which means " hit a seven" also means taking a piss
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