Comments on: Web Essentials 05

By: Ian Lloyd

Ian Lloyd — Wed, 11 May 2005 07:52:15 +0000

G’day? I hardly ever heard people say that while I was in the whole of Australia. The phrase that you *will* hear – a LOT – is ‘How’re ya goin’?', Not ‘How are you doing?’. It definitely sounds strange at first but you get used to it.

By: Paul Noone

Paul Noone — Tue, 10 May 2005 05:13:55 +0000

Mark, that’s a fully cyncial attitude of Sydney-siders, mate.

Dead set. Eric, that’s terrific news about WE05! Can’t wait.

See yez there. My shout! :P

By: Mark Reeves

Mark Reeves — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:52:05 +0000

If you hear people say g’day in Sydney – they are from elsewhere. Learn ‘my shout’ and you’ll be right.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:10:58 +0000

Eric, you were ‘bang on’ – hope to see you there.

By: Ben Finney

Ben Finney — Thu, 05 May 2005 23:21:51 +0000

Not bad for a Yank, mate.

“Fair dinkum” is used adjectivally: “It’ll be a fair dinkum ripper time”, “It’ll be fair dinkum”.

“Bonza” is the usual spelling for that word in my experience. “Truly bonza” is a clanging mixture of social tones; “bloody bonza” is far more consistent.

You’ll need some noun though; both “fair dinkum” and “bonza” are usually adjectives. “It’ll be a fair dinkum, bloody bonza ripper” would not be out of place, if rather enthusiastic.

“No worries” is hard to get wrong :-)

I agree with the advice on “g’day”; get that right, and much of the rest can be forgiven.

By: john allsopp

john allsopp — Thu, 05 May 2005 22:57:27 +0000

we will be preparing all our speakers for the language barrier, including the Aussie “acid test”:

“cut the baloney mate and don’t come the raw prawn with me you doubl headed mullet”

:-)

John

By: cade

cade — Thu, 05 May 2005 04:56:36 +0000

A fair dinkum what? You might say “It’ll be a fair dinkum good time” or “WE05 is fair dinkum” but you can’t say “It’ll be a fair dinkum”.

And you might also say “I’ll have a bonzer of a good time”.

I think bonzer is a derivative of bonanza and fair dinkum roughly translates as genuine.

Oh, and I don’t think you can just say ‘no worries’. It’s more usually expressed as ‘no-worries-mate’. It’s like, you can’t tell someone to have no worries unless you also tell them that they are your mate – the two expressions go hand in hand.

By: Rowen

Rowen — Thu, 05 May 2005 04:17:04 +0000

Fair dinkum, Eric, that was some pretty crook Strayan you were speaking there.

Still, provided you master the ubiquitous G’day, you be right. No worries :)

WE04 was great – 05 should be even better. Hope I can get along this year as well.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 05 May 2005 03:55:48 +0000

Well, I live in Australia, and don’t think I’ve ever heard the colloquialism “truly bonzer”… so even if you didn’t use them correctly, chances are most Aussies wouldn’t know ;)

Exciting stuff about WE05…