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RE: Newbie with questions
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry Raymond [mailto:kerry@dstc.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 12:02 PM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Newbie with questions
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> "> OK, well, I thought there's some reason why you're
> compressing it (e.g.
> > joking 'bout a TV anchor or something.) Never mind... :-)
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> We write it G'day because we pronounce it in that very
> contracted way, i.e.
> Gidd-ay (or Gidd-hay).
>
> A lot of people genuinely use it. I do when speaking/writing
> informally. I
> think the Internet has actually slightly encouraged its use
> (even by people
> who don't use it in everyday life), because it enables
> Australians to assert
> our cultural identity on the Internet.
>
> I suspect that "genuine use" of G'day probably relates to the
> social circles
> you belong to (or grew up in). I certainly learned it as a
> child. Mind you,
> I also inherited expressions like "whacko" and "bitzer" which
> don't seem to
> have survived like "G'day" has.
>
> For the benefit of our overseas readers ...
>
> "whacko" is an expression of pleasure, as in "we're having a
> lamb roast?
> Whacko!"
> "bitzer" is a contraction of "bits of this and bits of that"
> and is used for
> any kind of a mixed assortment of things. For example, "I
> have a bitzer dog"
> meaning a mixed breed.
>
> Actually, "bitzer" would be a good word to describe a Lego
> model which had
> to be built with a random collection of colours in order to get enough
> parts.
>
> Kerry
So I'm not the only one who knows more strine than "G'day"..Strewth, and
here was me thinking I was alone :) [It's a real pity they don't teach
Strine in schools, I reckon. I know I'd rather they taught this than
teaching children mis-spelt American[1] words and American sayings.]
[1] American as in U.S.A. I don't want to offend someone from anywhere else
in America by implying everyone there is a 'Yank'.
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 :-)
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