We all speak english, but...

[Mulholland]

Jimmy Riddle = Piddle = urinate we all know, but sambo sounds rather dodgy to me. 1970's style racial abuse rhyming slang?

I think sambo is slang for sandwich.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

"yo, caneye bara sum wa'er?"

"I think I'm going to apply to Toelune University."

"This experiment is hardly a represen'a'ive sample, start over."

^ note that this dialect applies only to Northern and Central Suburbia New Jersey.

 

[brainpan]

It changes and evolves. Fair dinkum is still in use, though it's probably diminishing. Australian slang today is still uniquely Australian, natch, but a lot of "traditional" Aussie slang has passed into jokey stereotypical speak to confuse foreigners. A few examples of contemporary Aussie slang would include goonsack, maggot (an adjective), arvo, woop woop, and bogan. The word "rort" is a rare example of a word unique to us that is often used in formal language.

Nice. Thanks for sharing. And the jokey slang to confuse foreigners explains a lot! Crikey!

Most of the incomprehensibility of my Australian accent (even the rare Spaniard with good English seems baffled by it) is in the speaking, not the lexicon, but... aside from the others listed above, what does STRIINE mean, eh?

That's easy. It STIINE is an acronym that means "suck train icky..." ah nevermind. I could never guess and I won't resort to a lame google and pretend I could.

 

[Arwon]

Haha. Strine = slightly exaggerated transcription of how we say "Australian." It's really more like "Strayan"...

 

[Dame Edna]

"Have an optic nerve (perv) at that septics (septic tank=Yank) eartha kitts (not hard to guess ) the're like mudgee mail bags (this part not rhyming, more descriptive)".

 

[RedRalph]

Jimmy Riddle = Piddle = urinate we all know, but sambo sounds rather dodgy to me. 1970's style racial abuse rhyming slang?

its sandwich

 

[RedRalph]

Haha. Strine = slightly exaggerated transcription of how we say "Australian." It's really more like "Strayan"...

why dont they say "rack off" on Home and Away anymore?

 

[Italian Celtic]

Germanic instead of Danish

i am not perfect like you

Well, I want to learn Italian, too ne day, but I have absolutely no time now. Anyway I made a trip to the Toskana with my school class one day. There I ordered some dishes and drinks in Italian. I asked where I learnt so good Italian! I answered I didn't but having Latin, French and Spanish as base it isn't that difficult to learn. I can understand the new magazines (for the biggest part) and if they don't speak too fast, like the Spanish, I can also understand the talks.
So all I can recommend is learning Latin as 2nd language. Then soon the other Roman languages are no problem.

Adler

what do you think about italian girls?

 

[Swedishguy]

"Héllouuu, wåld joooo lajk to häv sam lickriss?"
"Nouu fank joooo, ajm fajn."
"Arr joooo relly shår?"
"Jess, lickriss sacks."

Now guess what this means!

 

[RedRalph]

"Héllouuu, wåld joooo lajk to häv sam lickriss?"
"Nouu fank joooo, ajm fajn."
"Arr joooo relly shår?"
"Jess, lickriss sacks."

Now guess what this means!

Hello, would you l;ike some liquorice? No thanks, I;'m fine. Are you sure? Jesus, Liquorice sucks

 

[Italian Celtic]

Hello, would you l;ike some liquorice? No thanks, I;'m fine. Are you sure? Jesus, Liquorice sucks

Hello, would you like some liquorice? No thanks, I'm fine. Are you really sure? Yes, Liquorice sucks

it's better now