m-f'ing?

No not mafia like. This expression is an extreem insult.

it relates to an incestuose relationship with ones mother
as in Mother F@cker

Thanks

DP is the acknowledged cursing expert here.

(it's an auzzie thing, i think...)

Yeah yeah.
Tell your story walking corn boy.

it's kind of appropriate, if ya think about it.

other than the shrimps and barbie thing, and the dundee guy, your biggest contributions to the language would hafta 'bout be in that category, no?

(as an auzzie i mean, of course, not personally good sir)

What about "g'dai maite" and "naiouw worries" as contributions <how the hell do you spell them like they pronounce them?> It takes my Aussie niece ten seconds to say "no" and it tours every vowel in the English language before she's done with it--truly remarkable.

dadpad is right, oristar--definitely not a euphemism you want to use in polite company.

Maaaate, yer not a bad sort of a bastard. fer a yank that is. No wukkers.

Now see thats a compliment.


Bugger orf M jack: Au is the only country in the world that torks proper. Seppo's have mangled the Lingo beyond belief. My oath but.

Interpreting the spoken Australian language is a masters degree course though.
(strategic withdrawl to drum up reinforcements)

The only yanks I have met who understand anything of the world have been posted overseas for years at a time. You guys basically live in an insulated world where you have enough sub-cultures to match the number of world cultures so I understand the reasons for not knowing world history and culture.

But the English language has always been bastardised. The Normans introduced nouns for what they ate : beef, pork, mutton...the anglo-saxons kept the words for what they grew for the new masters : cow, pig, lamb. Other nations contributed ; assassin (arabic) mugger (hindi) kangaroo (aboriginee).

We have many areas that have contributed to the language, most notably sailing terms (between the devil and the deep blue sea), but others have crept in despite a lack of common use, such as the Mississipi river boat gamblers (not the full deck).

The americas had so many immigrants they needed a standard way to pronounce the language and the easiest way to teach it. So they invented pronouncing every sylable of a language that had more spelling inconsistencies than you could "wave a stick at" (from the common military practice of giving a map lesson and waving a stick at a feature). Some attempt was made to 'improve spelling' such as gaol became jail, but basically the new method of pronouncing every sylable was quite difficult.

No sooner was it established then it started to seperate. Southern galls mocked their slaves and made the men laugh by talking like slaves (hush yaw mouth, now wot u do dat fer). Many slaves had their own languages blended with english. The west was notorious for uneducated immigrants and gave us "prospector gibberish" (dang nab it ). Meanwhile the english who never had this degree of "pronouncing every sylable" emphasis in their language started to sound lazy to those who had ('op it 'for I clip ya).

Still trying to standardise english the yanks came up with international english based on their teaching technique. Hollywood actors have to learn this pronounciation so whether they have a southern drawl (y'aw'lll) or the yankee nasal twang (honkies) they will be coherent in the USA and the rest of the world. Most of us are familiar with the scottish (ah dinner lick it) and irish (shur'n ya daft) attempts to speak english but the canadians have picked up the yankee accent and will be deeply insulted if you say this to them.

But the story hasnt ended. America fell in love with the gang culture and many white youths think they are black (m-f' ing). The white americans are a very anal people and have added lots of phrases : get your arse over here, your arse is mine, I'll put a cap in your arse, kiss my arse etc etc etc .

But dont think for a minute the story ends here. The english language is so succesful for three reasons :
First and foremost it borrows anything and evolves.
Secondly, the British Empire took it around the world and introduced it to the upper classes. Some places like India made english their National language rather than adopt the language of their 3,000 year enemy next door.
Thirdly, the USA economy was of such a size after WWII, that just as the British Empire was being pulled apart, it demanded people learn english to do business in the gud 'ol USA.

If you insist we all talk the same you run the risk of ending up like the French, and no-one wants that. They established a "Pronounce French Correctly" Ministry during the first Napoleonic Era. It still exists and now they have a game show where kids come up with French sounding names so they wont have to use english ones because technology is adding many new english names to languages all over the world. That'll teach the english speaking people to save their "cheese eating surrender monkey " arses.

And some of you want to stand in the way of this train and demand we all speak the same ? Gud look !

As Winston Churchill said, "we are the same people seperated by a common language".

whoa! thats a division.. not reinforcements

I left out the chinese. The following is a true copy :

Produce at the same time in the M1941 KV-1 type, the KV-2( Also be called the year in M1941 KV-2 type) also threw in the production. The KV-2 characteristic is its quick-fried tower shape. The quick-fried tower that equip 152 millimeters of howitzers reports the hexagon keeps the square form, resembling an enormous box. But, it is said because of the excess, if not on the horizontal plane, dry by heat the tower connect to revolve all and very difficult. Because of such weakness, KV-2 is in actual battle, only used for proceeding to the virtuous soldier the thermodynamic power inhibit, but need not in the battlefield that hour of backstroke break war.

Now thats funny.

and to back up my assertion
http://www.gusworld.com.au/nrc/thesis/intro.htm