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.
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7 comments:

nilpferd said...

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.

September 1, 2009 at 11:09 AM
treefrogdemon said...

Pretty much a shoo-in there!

September 1, 2009 at 12:23 PM
sourpus said...

nilpferd, bro..

'beached'= wasted/stoned

True or fiction?

September 1, 2009 at 12:35 PM
nilpferd said...

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.

September 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM
nilpferd said...

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

September 1, 2009 at 2:14 PM
sourpus said...

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.

September 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM
nilpferd said...

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

September 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM

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