Things Australians Say Wrong #5

Ah, I seem to have not covered the Opera House yet.

Well, I'm not going to do one of their extremely overpriced tours, but I think I have way too many photos of the damn building anyway. I mean, somehow everytime I travel through downtown Sydney, I end up near the Opera House.

On that note, here is another list of things Australians say wrong.

Central Business District (CBD) = Downtown
Busk = Street Performing (Apparently a real word?? I refuse to believe this!)
Uni = University (I've actually taken a liking to saying uni)
Jumper = Hoodie
Goon = Box Wine
Piss = Grog = Alcohol
Pissed = Drunk = Angry
Piss Off = GTFO
Colour = Color
Labourer = Laborer
Harbour = Harbor
Aluminium = Aluminum

To all the Australians reading this blog: One of you said that it sounds like I'm just bashing Australians, but I'm not. I'm just providing a humorous perspective to your backwards nonsense ways to my filthy American friends and family members.

AT ANY RATE, HERE ARE A MILLION PHOTOS I TOOK OF THE OPERA HOUSE.

This is a view from the Harbour Bridge


This IS the Harbour Bridge


and THIS is the Opera House lit up for the VIVID festival going on in Sydney. Its a big event with big concerts, art shows, and the like.



The images changed every five minutes, and the images were projected from this huge thing from all across the bay.


Cooler than the projections on the antennas of the Sears Tower. But only a little bit cooler...

Lets see, I still have to cover the Chinese Gardens, the waterfront, the Harbour Bridge, and a whole bunch of other shizzz.

Things Australians Say Wrong #4

Sorry for these dull posts, just bear with me for a while longer!

Bike Gang Member = Bikie

Australians have a nice way of making violent, brutal things sound cute.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/23/2523230.htm

Things Australians Say Wrong #3

(Wow, has the quality of my photos always been this bad after uploading?)

Yeah, Sydney is great and all, but all anyone ever wants to do is visit a pub or a club. Its fun occasionally, but my health, wallet, and soul can't take it anymore. I'm doing some serious sightseeing, with or without the natives.

ANYWAY, here's some slang to bite on.

'heaps' (really, alot, etc)
Example: That was heaps fun. (That was really fun)

'keen' (to like)
Example: I'm not too keen on that. (I don't really like that)
(Its a word used in the US, but the frequency of it's presence in normal conversation in Australia is... alarming)

'_____ as' (I don't even fucking know)
Example: That was sweet as! (That was really sweet)

The last one confuses the hell out of me, and I haven't found anyone who knows how it came to existence. Basically, you take an adjective of your choice and you follow it with 'as' without actually comparing it to anything.

NUTS.

Also, I was watching something random the other day and chickens were referred to as 'chooks'. Odd.

Things Australians Say Wrong #2

When I was in elementary school, I remember something my English teacher told the class. She said that you can learn alot about a culture that uses a particular language if you notice how many different words they have for a singular concept. Specifically, languages spoken commonly by Eskimos are said to contain an extraordinary amount of words just for snow in it's various forms and situations. This was said to represent how important snow's presence was in their culture.
(However, upon further investigation for this update, this information all came from a hoax report made by some lazy linguistic. Check your sources next time, bbbitch)

Why did I introduce today's installment of Things Australians Say Wrong like this?

Because Australians have about 1,000 different words for being drunk.
'Maggot'
'Legless'
'Shickered'
'Pissed'

The list goes on for miles.

Surely, if the same rules apply as they supposedly did for the Eskimos, this doesn't mean that Australian culture is centered on fire water?

Lets review the photographic evidence from last night's St. Patty's celebration for a conclusion.


Conclusion: Australians are all drunk bastards. But that's why I love them :(

"Things Australians Say Wrong" #1

Here's another featured part of my blog! It's called "Things Australians Say Wrong". Obviously, since they say SO MANY THINGS wrong, this will be an ongoing installment!! Accompanied sometimes will be a short story on how I discovered their linguistic wrongdoings.

OK READYSETGO.

Flip Flops = Thongs

American = Sepo (Apparently because Septic Tank rhymes with 'Yank'. Yeesh, a little harsh for a country we haven't invaded or 'liberated' yet.)

'Z' (the letter) = 'Zed' (I found this out when I asked for the combination to a locked room in the dorm. For some reason, I just assumed 'Zed' meant that you had to type in Z, E, and D. It took me about 40 minutes before someone passed and corrected me.)

Breakfast = Brekkie (Because all of Australian slang is basically baby talk.)

THAT'S ALL YOU GET.

In other news, classes start tomorrow, and I'm stuck with a whole box of wine I couldn't bring to a parade yestarday :(