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(Smh.com.au) Amusing Purity of Australian English sullied by weird sports Americanisms like "thrown a curveball," "struck out", and "hit a home run." Fortunately, Aussies will always own the five-letter word for an outhouse   (smh.com.au) divider line 53
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SecretAgentWoman [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 02:21:44 PM
Crickey!
 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 02:39:32 PM
Fosters? No, that's seven letters. I give up.
 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 02:44:16 PM
Strewth! Fair dinkum mate

/aussies do play baseball too
 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 02:52:34 PM
Dunny?

The Australian word for outhouse is "dunny?"

img.photobucket.com

I did not know that.
 
TheDumbBlonde [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 02:53:58 PM
I was America had expressions as good as "dingo breakfast".
 
Sybarite [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 03:13:42 PM
What is this, the tea interval?
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2011-10-21 03:26:07 PM
Queensland?
 
PhiloeBedoe [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 03:34:44 PM
Malonga Gilderchuck? Bond Wizard? Chazzwazzer?
 
Hedgehogg
2011-10-21 04:01:16 PM
Why would they call an outhouse a strike?

/so confused
 
Cajnik [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 04:01:22 PM
Poofter?
 
Cajnik [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 04:02:03 PM
Hedgehogg: Why would they call an outhouse a strike?

/so confused

Australian Rules
 
Balchinian
2011-10-21 04:05:45 PM
Thank you, Bruce.
 
Gunny Highway
2011-10-21 04:06:08 PM
Reading that article was a can of corn
 
INeedAName
2011-10-21 04:09:27 PM
5 letter word for outhouse - Fosters?
 
Everyone Sucks But Me
2011-10-21 04:15:29 PM
FTA: Or thrown a spanner in the works?
WRENCH, IT'S A FARKING WRENCH

Or even bowled those students a googly?
1.bp.blogspot.com
 
Doc Daneeka
2011-10-21 04:28:01 PM
Well, this article sure came out of left field.

But I'm glad the writer really stepped up to the plate to address this important issue.
 
chechcal
2011-10-21 04:29:12 PM
Loooo?
 
H31N0US
2011-10-21 04:30:28 PM
Hogan
 
unlikely [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 04:31:54 PM
Perth?
 
Gunny Highway
2011-10-21 04:33:17 PM
H31N0US: Hogan

That's not a chip shot, now this is a chip shot
 
pelzo63
2011-10-21 04:46:21 PM
Doc Daneeka: Well, this article sure came out of left field.

But I'm glad the writer really stepped up to the plate to address this important issue.

What you said was right down the middle. Most writers would balk at the concept but he really hit it out of the park. I wonder what he has on deck for his next topic?
 
This Looks Fun
2011-10-21 04:49:57 PM
"Subby?"
 
KingKauff [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 04:56:49 PM
Hedgehogg: Why would they call an outhouse a strike?

/so confused

That's only four letters.
 
dwyw
2011-10-21 04:57:48 PM
So now we're invading other countries' languages too?

/Bring our idioms home!
 
skrame
2011-10-21 05:03:23 PM
Still, the fact remains that American sports metaphors have become everyday Australian phrases. Why? Even though American sports remain largely obscure on this side of the Pacific, we've heard so much American speech that we've absorbed their metaphors and their meanings.

It's long past time to throw in the towel on philological protectionism.

Oh, I see he follows the Dolphins.
 
Renart
2011-10-21 05:04:07 PM
Show me on the doll where the Americanisms hurt you, Bruce.
 
oldebayer
2011-10-21 05:18:43 PM
It;s really Fosters. Aussies just can't count past five.
 
browser_snake
2011-10-21 05:29:39 PM
Privy?
 
AuxRSS
2011-10-21 05:38:06 PM
Getting Americanisms out of the Australian language would require a Hail Mary play. And whoever succeeded would face a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking.
 
jst3p
2011-10-21 05:41:07 PM
skrame: Still, the fact remains that American sports metaphors have become everyday Australian phrases. Why? Even though American sports remain largely obscure on this side of the Pacific, we've heard so much American speech that we've absorbed their metaphors and their meanings.

It's long past time to throw in the towel on philological protectionism.

Oh, I see he follows the Dolphins.

Ouch, that hurts.
 
monty666 [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 06:00:04 PM
It's payback for those goddam Crocodile Dundee movies and Men at Work.
 
Jim from Saint Paul
2011-10-21 06:04:20 PM
There are more then 5 letters in the word "Australia Itself" subby.
 
Morgoth
2011-10-21 06:10:06 PM
shiatr?
 
Morgoth
2011-10-21 06:15:33 PM
Well, it was a five letter word. Stupid filter..
 
redmid17
2011-10-21 06:21:22 PM
pelzo63: Doc Daneeka: Well, this article sure came out of left field.

But I'm glad the writer really stepped up to the plate to address this important issue.

What you said was right down the middle. Most writers would balk at the concept but he really hit it out of the park. I wonder what he has on deck for his next topic?

If you ask me the entire column is pretty bush league. As an Australian writer, he's just trying to cover all the bases. He wanted to play hardball and he's going o-fer.
 
qgmonkey
2011-10-21 06:37:31 PM
Seppo?
 
nmhansen
2011-10-21 06:48:28 PM
And what the hell is a sticky wicket?!?
 
HighZoolander [TotalFark]
2011-10-21 07:01:02 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: Fosters? No, that's seven letters. I give up.

You're right, it's just five letters if you use the metric system.
 
The Flexecutioner
2011-10-21 07:50:19 PM
well it sure isn't 'fanny'.

/aussie ewe-phemisms are so funny
//no, fanny isn't a sheep joke
 
jimpoz
2011-10-21 08:16:57 PM
www.homeruncards.com
 
stebain
2011-10-21 09:45:52 PM
Bush
 
johnny queso
2011-10-21 10:30:27 PM
Shi-tta
 
BaseballFan
2011-10-22 12:03:46 AM
"Donny" is short for "donecker" which is the long word for a portable loo.
 
Whatthefark
2011-10-22 12:03:59 AM
A five letter word for an Australian outhouse?

Yahoo.

/a.k.a Yahoo Serious
//Young Einstein was the only movie I've ever walked out of.
 
ciderczar
2011-10-22 12:20:30 AM
Straya? That is how they pronounce it.
 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark]
2011-10-22 01:43:52 AM
Whatthefark: A five letter word for an Australian outhouse?

Yahoo.

/a.k.a Yahoo Serious
//Young Einstein was the only movie I've ever walked out of.

It was a lot better than Howard the Duck. Which I walked out of. Now You and Your Stupid Mate, people should walk out on. Except for the beaut of a Sheila in it.
 
Gordon Bennett
2011-10-22 01:47:11 AM
nmhansen: And what the hell is a sticky wicket?!?

A sticky wicket is a wet cricket pitch that makes the path the ball takes when bouncing difficult to predict.
 
Gordon Bennett
2011-10-22 01:49:00 AM
Fortunately, Aussies will always own the 5-letter word for an outhouse

Yet they complain about importing sport cliches. They've dunny wrong, Yanks.
 
gwowen
2011-10-22 06:40:54 AM
Pujol?
 
TruckeeTrees
2011-10-22 07:57:49 AM
Obama
 
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