Happens the other way too. Used to work in IT with Australians and it was hard for them to stifle giggles whenever I was talking about routing packets or routers.
For them, “rooting” means fucking
Sadly, Australia adopted the stupid 'Murican way of saying the word
Kiwis pronounce it correctly
I live in the US. For me a computer router is pronounced with an “ow” sound. Like if a Brit were “having a row” with someone, but with -ter at the end. Changing course (“rerouting”) also uses that pronunciation. However, highway “routes” can be pronounced with that same vowel, or as “root” like a plant root.
Which way is “correct” by Kiwi standards?
“root”
It’s a French word, and they don’t say “rowt”
Weird, when I say it, it’s an American word.
From my point of view the firewalls are evil.
Yeah, but yanks think they invented everything
Admittedly, school shootings started with you lot, so there’s that.
Most reserved Eurobro response. “This is how I pronounce a word” WElL aT LEaSt oUR SKeWlS aren’t SHEWTIN’ GAlLERiEs!
Fuck off, yank
Wrong side of the world
Root in french is racine, but we do say routeur designing the electronic box.
You can just make them up
“You can’t fling a dick in a pond without lunging a tugworm”
“Flock me a dozen cranberries and I’ll show you a real bandana”
“Eatin’s alright for the kanga, it’s the Joey’s that’ll cunt up your goomers”.
They’re all shit but you get me
You can just make them up
Sure, but if your boss and/or HR finds out, you’ll probably get in trouble for it unless your workplace is much cooler about that sort of thing than most 🤷🏻
It’s true, though. Flinging a dick in a pond would entail some changes in the laws of physics, tugworm or no 😄
In New Zealand, a “dag” is someone who has a good sense of humour and is fun (unlike in Australia where it has cringy connotations)
Explaining to a Yank that calling someone a shitty piece of wool, stuck to a sheep’s arse is a compliment takes some convincing
And then there’s “cunt”…
D’ya like dags?
I love the Aussie (and I presume Kiwi as well) use of the word “cunt.” Y’all have made it so fun 😄
Explaining to a Yank that calling someone a shitty piece of wool, stuck to a sheep’s arse is a compliment takes some convincing
What word are you referring to here? I don’t know of any American slang that means a shitty piece of wool stuck to a sheep’s ass, *dingleberry" is the closest we got and that’s not species-specific. The only thing I can think of that dag means/has meant in America is a minced oath, for either God or damn (“dagnabbit”, “dag yo”). Add an O on the end and you get a largely archaic racial slur for Italian people or a highly-localized regional sandwich. Didn’t know about the sandwich until I was driving through NE Minneapolis and saw a bar sign advertising “Dagos & Liquor” and briefly had to clutch my pearls until a local explained.
To be fair us yanks don’t know any of the meanings of dag, so we won’t think of it as rude either
I happens as a Brit too. Recently I casually used the phrase “use your loaf” around some North Americans. I then had to explain that loaf = loaf of bread = head. They were like “why” and then I had to try to explain the concept of Cockney Rhyming Slang, and then there was a barrage of questions about the origin of Cockney Rhyming Slang and all the other examples. I don’t know, I’m not even Cockney!
The only thing we do with a loaf is pinch it. And I don’t mean steal…
As for rhyming slang, just… how? Lots of things rhyme with so many other things and syllables apparently don’t even matter (see apples and pears).
“fuck me dead” wouldn’t even get a reaction from me. I’m used to off the wall phrases, and as long as I can figure out contextually what is being said, I’ll roll with it.
“Oh, you don’t wanna go to Bugarup,” said Remorse. “Nothing in Bugarup but a bunch of wowsers and pooftahs.” “’s okay, I like parrots,” mumbled Rincewind, who was just hoping that they would let him go so that he could hold on to the ground again. “Er…what’s Ecksian for going mad with terrified fatigue and collapsing in a boneless heap?” The men looked at one another. “Isn’t that ‘snagged as a wombat’s tonker’?” “No, no, no, that’s when you chuck a twister, isn’t it?” said Clancy. “What? Strewth, no. Chucking a twister’s when…when you…yeah, it’s when you…yeah, it’s when your nose…Hang on, that’s ‘bend a smartie’…” “Er—” said Rincewind, clutching his head. “What? ‘Bend a smartie’ is when your ears get blocked underwater.” Clancy looked uncertain, and then seemed to reach a decision. “Yeah, that’s right!” “Nah, that’s ‘gonging like a possum’s armpit,’ mate.” “Excuse me—” said Rincewind. “That ain’t right. ‘Gonging like a possum’s armpit’ is when you crack a crusty. When your ears are stuffed like a Mudjee’s kettle after a week of Fridays, that’s ‘stuck up like Morgan’s mule.’” “No, you’re referrin’ to ‘happier than Morgan’s mule in a choccy patch’—” “You mean ‘as fast as Morgan’s mule after it ate Ma’s crow pie.’” “How fast was that? Exactly?” said Rincewind. They all stared at him. “Faster’n a eel in a snake pit, mate!” said Clancy. “Don’t you understand plain language?”
Loved it when he invented Vegemite
Sand sailing ragatta, ya wot? I often find my self after reading good books picking up the slang a little, if I start saying “no worries” more often my wife will know I’ve been reading Terry Prachett
“We didnt come here to fuck spiders”
speak for yourself
Imagine your main exposure to Australian lingo is from the kids show Bluey and at and some point mum goes “fuck me dead.”
I haven’t fully accepted the American use of ‘to nut’ to mean ‘to cum’, I mean nut already means head and teste, in England to get nutted means to get headbutted
If you’re into headbutting ladies, you can come to the US and ask if they want to “get nutted”. They will probably think you’re an asshole afterward though.
It’s shortened from “bust a nut” which shouldn’t be too tough to decode. It does sound stupid, though.
This is why I eschew idioms at work.
“This is why I screw idiots at work”
– Dave of the porn startup “Dumbest Whores of Silicon Valley”
“Not here to fuck spiders” is a classic for this
Wait this is amazing
Let’s fuck this puppy
It means leave.
Huh, I’ve always heard and used “alright, let’s kick this puppy” for “stop procrastinating and do the thing”. We sometimes substitute “shake this baby” but it doesn’t seem to catch on sadly.
I’ve had good luck in my friend group with “club the seal” instead of “break the seal”, but that’s a totally different thing even if the flavor of violence is similar.
I am surprised that no one has brought up goon yet.
Alcoholism? I’ve heard of an Aussie goon bag on Taskmaster, for sneaking booze into a concert or game
Goon bag is just the silver pillow that comes inside a box of wine
Gotcha, thank you.
More so how most people outside of aus associate’s it with a more sexual conotation.
Not sure if it needs to be pointed out… to “nut it out” doesn’t mean what Americans think it means. It means to use your head to come up with a solution. The nut is your head.
I’m utterly convinced that Australian slang is derived from being a relatively recent prison colony, like it’s not comparable to anything other than prison or street slang.
Also for some reason my autocorrect wanted to turn colony into colon loop.
This is what happens when you conquer half the world and forget to tend to them.
You end up with cunts and people eating giant mutant grass called “corn”.
Also, today I discovered that we didn’t know how to cultivate sweet corn until 1779. Multiple Native American tribes independently discovered how to do so a long time before then. It literally took us three hundred years to finally sit down and ask them.
If it makes it any better corn is just an archaic term for all grain. Why it got locked to maize in particular I have no clue.
