A funny language thing

[727Sky]

Back in the 70s is when I witnessed this. Darling is a sign of affection... Doc ling is monkey's butt hole..

There was a rather short American who had the hots for a girl who worked in a bar. She did not like short guys.. He would always go to the bar and try to chat her up and even buy her drinks. He did not speak Thai.. Every time he would see her he would of course say hello and try and get her to go with him.

"Hello Mia" he would say.

"Hello Doc ling" she would say and with the accent he never knew.. I never told him and to my knowledge no one else did either.  She never went with him for the year that I know of no matter how much money he offered.

I call many of my caddies doc ling as it is an inside joke just as several always say Saw Wat Dee Doc ling to me..

Language of sound alikes can be amusing IMO

[F2d5thCav]

In German, "thanks a lot" is danke schön.

GI's rendered it as "donkey shorts"

Another GI favorite of mine sounded like oopgefucht, a made-up word that sounded kind of German and meant "f'd up". 

Cheers

[guohua]

Yes in Chinese is 是的 Shi de it is often said by Americans as Shit Da

No is 不 Bu Americans will say Boooooooooo.

Fuckedup is 搞砸了 Gǎo zále Americans say Godzila 

You have to actually hear the words spoken in Chinese to understand the familiarity in sound.

[Bally002]

Yes in Chinese is 是的 Shi de it is often said by Americans as Shit Da

I guess 'Shi de'  has a similar sound and meaning in our lingo - "Shit aye"

Can be an exclamation of surprise (spoken in a higher pitch and generally with a grin) but can also be an affirmative when agreeing that something went wrong (Said in a lower tone with a serious look).

Kind regards and positive thoughts,

Bally:)

[BIAD]

In my neck-of-the-woods, standard English hit the wall of Big Gordi's dialect and many expressions
changed. Such like:

How ya deein’. -Are you well?
Canny. -Friendly.
Gannin’. -Going.
Hinny, Pet, Marra -Friend.
Hyem. [Pronounced Yam] -Home.
Geet -Large.
Walla -Queue.
Hoy. -Throw.
Pure Belta -Magnificent.
Gadgie -Male/Man.
Scran -Food.
Bait.  -Food.
Scratcha. -Bed.
Radgie- Cross, Angry.
Owa [Pronounced How-a] -Over.
Haddaway, man -You must be joking.
Netty. -Toilet/Bathroom.
Whey aye, man -Of course.
Knackered -Tired.
Clamming -Hungry.
Spelk. -Splinter of wood.
Bairn. -Child.

There's plenty more!

[Bally002]

In my neck-of-the-woods, standard English hit the wall of Big Gordi's dialect and many expressions
changed. Such like:


Scran -Food.

There's plenty more!

Scran is an interesting one for me.  In Aussie navy terms it's an acronym for "Shit Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy".  I believe and if memory serves me correct the real term comes from RN years ago meaning an issue of "Sultanas, Currents, Raisins and Nuts" to the crew in rough weather or trying times.  Saved firing up the galley.  The 'head' (ship's dunny) was busy afterwards.

Kind regards,

Bally:)

[OmegaLogos]

Explanation: ...

Aussie Slanguage: 125+ Australian Slang Words & Phrases

125+ Australian Slang Words & Phrases

1. A Cold One – Beer
   
2. Accadacca – How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC
   
3. Ankle Biter – Child
   
4. Arvo – Afternoon (S’Arvo – this afternoon!)
   
5. Aussie Salute – Wave to scare the flies
   
6. Avo – Avocado
   
7. Bail – To cancel plans. ‘Bruce bailed’ = Bruce isn’t going to turn up.
   
8. Barbie – Barbecue
   
9. Bathers – Swimsuit
   
10. Beauty! – Great! Most often exclaimed as “You Beauty”
    
11. Billabong – A pond in a dry riverbed
    
12. Billy – Teapot (In the Outback on the fire)
    
13. Bloody – Very. Used to extenuate a point
    
14. Bloody oath – yes or its true. “You right mate?”… “Bloody Oath”
    
15. Bludger – Someone who’s lazy, generally also who relies on others (when it’s someone who relies on the state they’re often called a ‘dole bludger’)
    
16. Bogan – This word is used for people who are, well let’s say, rednecks. Or, if you like, just call your friends a bogan when they are acting weird.
    
17. Booze Bus – Police vehicle used to catch drunk drivers
    
18. Bottle-O – Bottle Shop, basically a place to buy alcohol
    
19. Brekky – Breakfast
    
20. Brolly – Umbrella
    
21. Bruce – An Aussie Bloke
    
22. Buckleys Chance – little chance (Buckley’s Chance Wiktionary)
    
23. Budgie Smugglers – Speedos
    
24. Buggered – Exhausted
    
25. Bush – “Out in the bush” – “he’s gone bush” In the countryside away from civilisation
    
26. Cab Sav – Cabernet Sauvignon
    
27. Cactus – Dead, Broken
    
28. Choc A Bloc – Full
    
29. Choccy Biccy – Chocolate Biscuit
    
30. Chook – Chicken
    
31. Chrissie – Christmas
    
32. Ciggy – a Cigarette
    
33. Clucky – feeling maternal
    
34. Cobber – Very good friend. ‘Alright me ‘ol cobber’.
    
35. Coldie – Beer. ‘Come over for a few coldie’s mate.’
    
36. Coppers – Policemen
    
37. Crack the shits – Getting angry at someone or something
    
38. Crikey – an expression of surprise
    
39. Crook – Being ill or angry; ‘Don’t go crook on me for getting crook’
    
40. C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven’t done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.
    
41. Dag – Someone who’s a bit of a nerd or geek.
    
42. Daks – Trousers. ‘Tracky daks’ = sweatpants (tracksuit pants)
    
43. Dardy – meaning “cool”, is used amongst South West Australian Aboriginal peoples and has also been adopted by non-indigenous teens. – wikipedia
    
44. Deadset – True
    
45. Defo – Definitely
    
46. Devo – Devastated
    
47. Drongo – a Fool, ‘Don’t be a drongo mate’
    
48. Dunny – Toilet
    
49. Durry – Cigarette
    
50. Esky – An insulated container that keeps things cold (usually beers)
    
51. Facey – Facebook
    
52. Fair Dinkum – ‘Fair Dinkum?’ … ‘Fair Dinkum!’ = Honestly? … Yeah honestly!
    
53. Flannie / Flanno – flannelette shirt
    
54. Flat out – Really busy – “Flat out like a lizard drinking” – As busy as a bee
    
55. Footy – Football (AFL / Aussie Rules)
    
56. Frothy – Beer
    
57. F*ck Me Dead – that’s unfortunate, that surprises me
    
58. Furphy – rumours or stories that are improbable or absurd
    
59. G’day – Hello
    
60. Galah – an Australian cockatoo with a reputation for not being bright, hence a galah is also a stupid person.
    
61. Gnarly – awesome – often used by surfers
    
62. Going off – busy, lots of people / angry person “he’s going off”
    
63. Good On Ya – Good work
    
64. Goon – the best invention ever produced by mankind. Goon is a cheap, boxed wine that will inevitably become an integral part of your Australian backpacking experience.
    
65. Hard yakka – Hard work
    
66. Heaps – loads, lots, many
    
67. Hoon – Hooligan (normally driving badly!)
    
68. Iffy – bit risky or unreasonable
    
69. Knickers – female underwear
    
70. Lappy – Laptop
    
71. Larrikin – Someone who’s always up for a laugh, bit of a harmless prankster
    
72. Legless – Someone who is really drunk
    
73. Lollies – Sweets
    
74. Maccas – McDonalds
    
75. Manchester – Sheets / Linen etc. If you’re from England, finding a department within a shop called Manchester could seriously confuse you.
    
76. Mongrel – Someone who’s a bit of a dick
    
77. Mozzie – Mosquito
    
78. No Drama – No problem / it’s ok
    
79. No Worries – No problem / it’s ok
    
80. No Wucka’s – A truly Aussie way to say ‘no worries’
    
81. Nuddy – Naked
    
82. Outback – The interior of Australia, “The Outback” is more remote than those areas named “the bush”
    
83. Pash – to kiss
    
84. Piece of Piss – easy
    
85. Piss Off – go away, get lost
    
86. Piss Up – a party, a get together and in Australia – most social occasions
    
87. Piss – (To Piss) to urinate
    
88. Pissed – Intoxicated, Drunk
    
89. Pissed Off – Annoyed
    
90. Rack Off – The less offensive way to tell someone to ‘F Off’!
    
91. Rapt – Very happy
    
92. Reckon – for sure. ‘You Reckon?’… ‘I reckon!’
    
93. Rellie / Rello – Relatives
    
94. Ripper – ‘You little ripper’ = That’s fantastic mate!
    
95. Root Rat – someone who enjoys sex (maybe a little too much)
    
96. Rooted – Tired or Broken
    
97. Runners – Trainers, Sneakers
    
98. Sanger – Sandwich
    
99. Servo – Service Station / Garage
    
100. Shark biscuit – kids at the beach
     
101. Sheila – A woman
     
102. She’ll be apples – Everything will be alright
     
103. Shoot Through – To leave
     
104. Sick – awesome; ‘that’s really sick mate’
     
105. Sickie – a sick day off work, or ‘to pull a sickie’ would be to take a day off when you aren’t actually sick
     
106. Skull – To down a beer
     
107. Slab – A carton of beers
     
108. Smoko – Cigarette break
     
109. Snag – Sausage
     
110. Stiffy – Erection
     
111. Stoked – Happy, Pleased
     
112. Straya – Australia
     
113. Strewth – An exclamation of surprise
     
114. Stubby – a bottle of beer
     
115. Stubby Holder – Used so your hands don’t get cold when holding your beer, or to stop your hands making your beer warm!
     
116. Stuffed – Tired
     
117. Sunnies – Sunglasses
     
118. Swag – Single bed you can roll up, a bit like a sleeping bag.
     
119. Tea – Dinner
     
120. Tinny – Can of beer or small boat
     
121. Thongs – Flip Flops. Do not be alarmed if your new found Australian friend asks you to wear thongs to the beach. They are most likely expressing their concern of the hot sand on your delicate feet.
     
122. True Blue – Genuinely Australian
     
123. Tucker – Food. ‘Bush Tucker’ tends to be food found in the Outback such as witchety grubs.
     
124. Two Up – A gambling game played on Anzac day.
     
125. U-IE – to take a U-Turn when driving
     
126. Up Yourself – Stuck up
     
127. Woop Woop – middle of nowhere “he lives out woop woop”
     
128. Ya – You
     
129. Yous – (youse) plural of you!
     

Personal Disclosure: Rack off ya bunch of gallahs! [SARCASM!]
"Eye kan speeka das engrish perphucktly ... eye joost kant tipe 4 shyte!"  

[Bally002]

Explanation: ...

Aussie Slanguage: 125+ Australian Slang Words & Phrases



"Eye kan speeka das engrish perphucktly ... eye joost kant tipe 4 shyte!"  

I see 'rooted' in your list.  "Just had a root" can mean "Just stepped off a horizontal refreshment."  or "The missus let me have an empty."

and the saying "If that's fair dinkum, I'll stand (Standing up) rooting."  "Flamin wombat"  = "Eats, Roots and Leaves".

My thoughts,

Bally :)

[BIAD]

Scran is an interesting one for me.  In Aussie navy terms it's an acronym for "Shit Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy".
I believe and if memory serves me correct the real term comes from RN years ago meaning an issue of "Sultanas, Currents, Raisins and Nuts"
to the crew in rough weather or trying times.  Saved firing up the galley.  The 'head' (ship's dunny) was busy afterwards...

Wow...! that's genuinely interesting. It makes one wonder what long-term effects such international communication
has on different languages -as well as English. There always seems to a pragmatic reason for an odd word that sadly,
gets lost in time.
Thank you.
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In Omegalogo's list, I see many that seem to derive from the past in England, but there many that I'd presume are
unique to Australia.

'Bogan' -redneck or somebody acting oddly.
Could this be a corrupted version of the slang 'bogging', a term to mean smelly, left unkempt?
Maybe even a corruption of the word 'Bogle' -meaning scarecrow or another distorted Northumbrian word
from the colloquial title 'Boggart' derived from 'Bogie' or 'Bogie-man'.

I find this all this fascinating!

'Yakka' – work. Another rural term used in the past in areas of Britain that farmers often named for their act
of removing turnip leaves from the edible taproot. One 'yaks' a turnip with a small sickle.

Yous – (youse) plural of you. This expression is still used in the North-Eastern areas of England, but pronounced
as 'Yoose' to mean a collective.

It needs more looking into -methinks!

[Bally002]

Scran is an interesting one for me.  In Aussie navy terms it's an acronym for "Shit Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy".
I believe and if memory serves me correct the real term comes from RN years ago meaning an issue of "Sultanas, Currents, Raisins and Nuts"
to the crew in rough weather or trying times.  Saved firing up the galley.  The 'head' (ship's dunny) was busy afterwards...

Wow...! that's genuinely interesting. It makes one wonder what long-term effects such international communication
has on different languages -as well as English. There always seems to a pragmatic reason for an odd word that sadly,
gets lost in time.
Thank you.

I find the most interesting term in the Aboriginal Language is "Muckaty"  pronounced Muck-a-tee.  There is a cattle station named Muckaty station in central Australia.

'Muckaty' means in central Australian aboriginal terms "rifle' or "Firearm".  The term came from the west coast where the Dutch mariners landed or were ship wrecked late 1500's to early 1600's.  'Musket'.  I've met many a central Australian who carry on the genes.  Blonde Hair, Blue eyes and freckles in some upon their dark aboriginal skin.  Licencing being part of my duties years ago in central Aust meant I handed out some 'muckaty' licences.

Cheers,

Bally:)

[BIAD]

I find the most interesting term in the Aboriginal Language is "Muckaty"  pronounced Muck-a-tee.
There is a cattle station named Muckaty station in central Australia.

'Muckaty' means in central Australian aboriginal terms "rifle' or "Firearm".  The term came from the west coast where the Dutch mariners landed or were ship wrecked late 1500's to early 1600's.  'Musket'.  I've met many a central Australian who carry on the genes.  Blonde Hair, Blue eyes and freckles in some upon their dark aboriginal skin.  Licencing being part of my duties years ago in central Aust meant I handed out some 'muckaty' licences...

If we assume the first part of the word 'Muck' derives from the shortening of the word 'musket', 'A-tee' must be a broken-down
expression of something else relevant to the area. Do you have any insight to what that may be?

(Intrigued Pom asking!)

[Bally002]

I find the most interesting term in the Aboriginal Language is "Muckaty"  pronounced Muck-a-tee.
There is a cattle station named Muckaty station in central Australia.

'Muckaty' means in central Australian aboriginal terms "rifle' or "Firearm".  The term came from the west coast where the Dutch mariners landed or were ship wrecked late 1500's to early 1600's.  'Musket'.  I've met many a central Australian who carry on the genes.  Blonde Hair, Blue eyes and freckles in some upon their dark aboriginal skin.  Licencing being part of my duties years ago in central Aust meant I handed out some 'muckaty' licences...

If we assume the first part of the word 'Muck' derives from the shortening of the word 'musket', 'A-tee' must be a broken-down
expression of something else relevant to the area. Do you have any insight to what that may be?

(Intrigued Pom asking!)

Think of Musketeer.  A soldier armed with a musket.  Combine that with a primitive language and one I am familiar with where pronunciation is kin to pidgin.  My thoughts that this was described in native terms musketeer =  Muckaty.  Kinda like a child copying speech.  There are many languages in aboriginal central Aussie but I knew 'Mackaty' or 'Muckatee' was common with the Warlpiri and Pintupi residing out there.
So a man armed and described as a musketeer would, to my way of thinking be decribed in those original people's term, who had no concept of foriegn language, as 'Mukaty'

Hope that helps.

Bally:)

[Bally002]

I find the most interesting term in the Aboriginal Language is "Muckaty"  pronounced Muck-a-tee.
There is a cattle station named Muckaty station in central Australia.

'Muckaty' means in central Australian aboriginal terms "rifle' or "Firearm".  The term came from the west coast where the Dutch mariners landed or were ship wrecked late 1500's to early 1600's.  'Musket'.  I've met many a central Australian who carry on the genes.  Blonde Hair, Blue eyes and freckles in some upon their dark aboriginal skin.  Licencing being part of my duties years ago in central Aust meant I handed out some 'muckaty' licences...

If we assume the first part of the word 'Muck' derives from the shortening of the word 'musket', 'A-tee' must be a broken-down
expression of something else relevant to the area. Do you have any insight to what that may be?

(Intrigued Pom asking!)

Think of Musketeer.  A soldier armed with a musket.  Combine that with a primitive language and one I am familiar with where pronunciation is kin to pidgin.  My thoughts that this was described in native terms musketeer =  Muckaty.  Kinda like a child copying speech.  There are many languages in aboriginal central Aussie but I knew 'Mackaty' or 'Muckatee' was common with the Warlpiri and Pintupi residing out there.
So a man armed and described as a musketeer would, to my way of thinking be described in those original people's term, who had no concept of foreign language, as 'Muckaty'

Hope that helps.

Bally:)

Just adding.  Musketeer - Muskatee - couple of hundred years later might be - mucka tee.  Slang for Muskateer or whatever the  armed sailors called themselves in their language back then,  My thoughts.




A dutch musketeer painted by Jacob van Gheyn in 1608

1608

Bally:)

[BIAD]

Just adding.  Musketeer - Muskatee - couple of hundred years later might be - mucka tee.
Slang for Muskateer or whatever the  armed sailors called themselves in their language back then,  My thoughts.




A dutch musketeer painted by Jacob van Gheyn in 1608...

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Back in the 70s is when I witnessed this. Darling is a sign of affection... Doc ling is monkey's butt hole..

There was a rather short American who had the hots for a girl who worked in a bar. She did not like short guys.. He would always go to the bar and try to chat her up and even buy her drinks. He did not speak Thai.. Every time he would see her he would of course say hello and try and get her to go with him.

"Hello Mia" he would say.

"Hello Doc ling" she would say and with the accent he never knew.. I never told him and to my knowledge no one else did either.  She never went with him for the year that I know of no matter how much money he offered.

I call many of my caddies doc ling as it is an inside joke just as several always say Saw Wat Dee Doc ling to me..

Language of sound alikes can be amusing IMO

This cracked me up and reminded me of my dear friend Flo. She is originally from the Philippines.

Flo is sweet, demure, and I never saw her get angry. We had another friend, her is Julia, and every other word out of Julia's mouth is the "F" word in some kind of dress, or just plain raw.

This day Flo got pissed. She said, "I am so mad I can't stand it." "Pock It!" "Just Pock It!" When I asked Flo what did she mean, she you know. "What Julia says all the time."

Of course "Pocket!", became my go to expletive.

[hounddoghowlie]

a business man went on a trip to thailand, a business associate met him at the airport and on the way back to the hotel told him he had set up a date for him with a escort, and a round of golf the next day.

the guy said great and was looking forward to both.

after he took the escort to diner and talking with her in his broken thai and her broken english they went up stairs and started getting busy. 

in the middle of it she started yelling something in her language , the guy thought yea yea she likes it and he started pumping harder and faster.

the next day on the golf course his business associate made a great hole in one shot. so he thought i'll impress him and use the words my date said.

so he repeated her words, his associate turned and looked at him and asked,

what do you mean wrong hole?