Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Kiwi Slang - a user guide



Kudos to the Spiller who gets this (in its entirety) first time.

Apparently, it was put together by two Australians, but i've also heard it's pretty accurate.

7 comments:

  1. bro, thet's easy es.
    Some of the pronunciation isn't really spot-on, instead of plinkton I'd say plenkton, and I never heard of anyone using a hoose to wash down a whale, beached as or not- it'd be a howz.
    Very amusing though.

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  2. nilpferd, bro..

    'beached'= wasted/stoned

    True or fiction?

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  3. No idea, never heard it used like that, we used to just say wasted/stoned, but I'm a washed up never-beached has-been myself, so how would I know..
    I suspect it just means "beached", in a whales-getting-beached sense.

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  4. @treefrogbro- shoes?
    you mean, tramping boots or jandals?

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  5. As far as I can make out, it translates something like this:

    Arrr no.... arrr no.......
    Im beached bro!
    Im beached as
    Hey bro!....aww, hey bro!
    What are you doing bro?
    Dude, I'm beached as!
    Ohhh sh-t! You're beached as!
    Tell me something I don't know!
    Bro, your heaps beached, ay?
    So beached!!....
    I'm beached as!
    Wanna chip bro?
    As in a chip?
    Yeah, a chip.
    A potato chip?
    This one. A chip, a chip.
    I would though bro but I don't eat chips
    .....well that's sh-t!
    Nah, I only eat plankton.
    Plankton?
    Can't chew bro!
    Try a chip bro
    Nah, well I can't chew!!
    Just try a chip bro!
    You don't understand, I might look big, but I can't chew bro!
    I only have plankton
    Thats pretty deceptive!
    I know, it's very miss-leading!
    Do you have any plankton?
    I might, I'll go 'n' check over here..
    Do you happen to have a bucket or a hose bro? I need to get wet asap.
    Are you pretty parched?
    I'm parched as and I'm beached bro
    You're beached as!
    I know...
    I'll see if I can find some plankton... etc.

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  6. looks fine. He's saying Aw, no! at the beginning. The Aussies do make it sound a bit too musical, though- a real kiwi accent gets by with a single vowel. U.

    Um Butchd uzz, bru, etc.

    Reminds me of a classic book we had when I was a kid, Let stalk Strine. Basically the same thing, written by an Australian poking fun at his own dialect.

    Read some of it here- http://forum.i-ecc.com/viewtopic.php?t=13360

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