Monday, March 23, 1983
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Daily IMebresksn
Guide...
Continued from P;ge 4
Midwest. Tin starting to pick up what people are saying
when they'ie talking to their "mates" (friends) and, when
people address me, J sometimes have to ask them to slow
down so J can understand.
When somebody is drunk and they start talking fast,
it's almost impossible to figure out what they're saying.
You just learn to nod and laugh occasionally.
At the bar or "pub," a "shout" is what one does
when one buys a round of drinks, ttlien one downs a
drink in one gulp, it's called a "skull." And when one
gets sick and loses all the beer he has "skulled," it's said
that he "chundered."
"Don't worry about it" is "no worries" down there.
A typical greeting on campus like "Ili.how are ya doin"
would be "G'day, mate." "Drop dead" or "take a hike"
is "bugger off." You can also be "buggered" if you're
in trouble or upset. A guy is a "bloke" and a wild party
or a wild time is a "rage."
Australians also have a tendency to change words
around and add "ie" or a "y"' to the end. Breakfast is
"brekkie," an umbrella is a "brullie " television is "telly,"
Woolworth's discount store is "Woolies," and biscuits,
which we would cali cookies (their biscuits are called
"scones"), are "bikkies."
A small beer is called a "middie," bikers from the
western Sydney suburbs or from western New South
Wales are "Westies," a can of beer is a "tinnie," Kel
logg 's Sugar Frosted Flakes are "Frosties," vans are
"combies," Australia's favorite candy, a mint-flavored
("flavoured" here) taffy, is called "Minties."
Some derisive terms include "choppers" for little
kids, "pouftas" for homosexuals, "pommies" or "poms"
for Britons, and "drongo"and "shagger," whose meanings
are unclear.
"Bonza" means "good," as in 'He's a bonza bloke."
"Bastard" is a general term for a male. The word
preceding bastard is most important; "he's a skinny
bastard" or "an intelligent bastard" or "an amusing
bastard." Only when it is used alone is bastard considered
derogatory.
"Bloody" is used as an adjective for something that
isn't liked, such as "bloody lecture" or "bloody rain"
or "bloody assignment." "Bloody nose" means the same
thing as it would back home, though.
The strangest phrase I have run across is 'Yair
dinkum." It means truly or really or honestly. If one
person says something another doubts, the doubter asks,
"fair dmkum?" and he or she is answered with "fair
dinkum." It's also used as an adjective: "That's fair
dinkum Aussie" for something genuinely Australian.
There are more, I'm sure, but that's about all I've
heard. The one non-fair dinkum thing in my last letter
was the size of the wave that came in close to shore -it
was only about five feet high, not 10. I'm still peeling,
by the way, and that was from March 5! Bloody sunburn.
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Androgyny is questionable goal
In her column "Androgyny is movement goal" (Daily
Mebraskan, March 15), Becky Stingley stated plainly the
reasons why J oppose the feminist movement.
Feminists would be overjoyed if they could change
men and women into a sterile society of humans. Ap
parently the columnist thinks they are approaching
their goal (" . . . we are beginning to emphasize the
male characteristics of women and the female charact
eristics of men . . . "). That, in a nutshell, is why I want
nothing to do with the so-called women's movement.
Personally, I can't see what's wrong with being either
male or female. Yet, in the feminist camp, there are males
and females trying hard to make themselves into members
of a third sex. Androgyny is not progress, but a perversion
of God's plan for mankind, which is set forth in the Bible.
One does not have to be a feminist to believe in equal
rights fcr women. Men and women are equal; I cannot
agree with a theory that says they should become one
and the same.
Tad Stryker
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