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RE: Newbie with questions
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:58:35 GMT
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I guess you haven't seen the crocodile dundee movies...G'day is the strine
[Australian dialect of english, as opposed to the language in the US which
is not english <G,D&R>] form of welcome. Similarly, ooroo [I think that's
the correct spelling] is one form of goodbye. Just an Aussie thing, really.
[and unfortunately, it's dying out. Schools nowadays seem to spend more time
teaching american than english or strine :( ]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shiri Dori [mailto:shirid@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:51 AM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Newbie with questions
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> In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > G'day,
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> What's with you Aussies and this G'Day thing now? Some inside
> joke I need ta
> know about? :-)
>
> -Shiri
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| "> Similarly, ooroo [I think that's (...) I'd pronounce it and spell it "hooroo" but the Macquarie dictionary allow for: hooroo, hooray, ooroo, and ooray. Kerry (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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