I know these guys put it on for the entertainment, but it's still understandable to us even without the subtitles. I also love the look on the faces of foreigners when they try and decipher what the hell we just said. Funny as hell.
Hey mate lets hit the servo for some durries and a 4 and 20 and we’ll swing past the bottleo and grab a slab of piss on the way home… Honestly pretty standard talk in the suburbs..
i named my character on splatoon 3 Squizzie as a portmanteau of squid and Lizzie… now i’m wondering how many australian players are reading it as lookie 😂
I speak what's called General Australian, just a mild, middle of the road accent. Ordering food and a drink at LAX, the attendant asked what language I was speaking. I replied “English”. He very slowly (as if to a two-year-old) said, “you speak Eeen-glissshhh?”. I told him”yes”, and repeated my order. He asked me could I maybe get an interpreter. I just pointed to what I wanted, paid, collected and walked away. My brother had been nearby and asked why I hadn’t smiled and said “thank you…” with the …. a not very complimentary Aussie slang word.
@@fizzycolalizzie adding ‘ie’ in Australian usually makes a word ‘smaller’ in meaning. So ‘taking a Squizz’ is having a look at something ‘Taking a Squizzie’ would be taking a little look/a peek at something. Having a ‘look see’ and having a ‘lookie see’ respectively can be used in the same way.
When I lived in Scotland, I once caught a train with a Scot and an American in the same car. I could understand both, but the American couldn't understand the Scotsman and the Scotsman couldn't understand me (Aussie). One of the funniest trips I've had with strangers. Another time I moved in with a new Scottish flatmate and I'd been living there for a few months when, one evening, she asked me what I was having for dinner. I answered, "I'm gonna cook a chook for dinner." Her blank look told me she hadn't understood. I ran the sentence back through in my mind but couldn't think of anything she would be getting stuck on. Finally she asked, "What the hell is a chook?". Hadn't realised till then that 'chook' is an Aussie word.
My little brother bought his American wife home to meet the family and actually got her to put Vegemite behind her ear before they left the plane so she wouldn’t get attacked by dropbears, and yes he is still married after 15 years but he does live in the best state of Massachusetts the home of the Mighty Boston Bruins. I am an Australian that loves ice hockey.
I went to the US a few years back and I turned the Aussie up just to see the looks on the faces of the Americans that couldn't understand a word I was saying. Very entertaining! There was a Starbucks in NYC where I ordered a pecan latte. The poor girl couldn't understand me even when I dialled the Aussie down and spoke slowly. I ended up having to write my order down for her! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember chatting with some friends in Facebook messenger a few years ago, most of which were American. We decided to chatting with audio. Only one or two of them could understand me until I deliberately slowed my speech just slightly. It was hilarious
The brief expression on the face of the passer-by at 0:57 cracked me up, he be walking by all like “Why doesn’t this crazy American understand basic conversational language?” 😂
Reminds me of an experience I had about twenty years ago. I'm English from Yorkshire, and was working as a service technician in South Carolina, and was accompanied by a colleague who had never travelled before. I had visited the US quite a few times previously and had learnt to slow down my speech and speak clearly to communicate with the locals. My colleague however hadn't, and got really frustrated when I had to translate for him almost every time he spoke. The American guys we were working with commented that when we were talking to each other, it was like we were speaking a foreign language and couldn't understand a word.
When I first moved to Australia, I lived in a bogan suburb and couldn’t understand anything anyone said for two weeks. But you’d be right, mate. You’re bloody good at Strine mate. Cheers 🍻 👍🏼🦬🕷🇦🇺
Bogan is such a northern word, I used to think it just meant into Heavy Metal, I'd never heard the word before reading Lockie Leanoard. And it turns out its what we'd call a Westy.
@@Goatcha_M It is (or was) Bevan in QLD, not bogan. Bogan has taken over with all the other overexaggerated rot on social media. Find an old bloke out in the sticks to hear natural slang.
@@Goatcha_M I'm pretty sure bogan is originally from Melbourne. I recall hearing it first on TV in late 1980s. Not commonly heard in Sydney at that time. It was spread by the Kylie Mole character on the Comedy Company.
I do it every time I’m in the states… turn the Aussie up to 11 just to mess with everyone! I had a blast at the outback steak house no one knew if was joking or being serious lol
Many years ago, a friend and I lived in a tourist trap in the outback and often encountered visiting tourists when we were together. We would talk to the tourists normally, and when no tourists were present we'd talk to each other normally, but in front of tourists we'd talk to each other in the most extreme ocker and slang at full speed, because that was always fun. Even Aussie tourists from the capital cities used to be shocked by it because they knew what it all meant, but rarely if ever heard anyone use it all full on like that. My eldest son is a master of it. He can pull out two different varieties: the same full-blown outback Aussie ocker I can use, and a thick Western Sydney strine with a slight Lebanese-Aussie accent. He has the most fun with it by using the Sydney one in the outback and the outback one in Sydney, never fails to get a reaction, even from other Aussies.
We have so many sayings and slangs here in Oz, and words that have totally different meanings. Eg. Blue in Oz can mean many things depending on the context of how it's used. Some ways would be, "To have a Blue", or "To get into a Blue", or "To pick a Blue". Blue stands for Fight. Then we have Blue Dogs which are Blue Heelers and as a nickname Ian, you having red hair would be could "Blue" or "Bluey" back in the day. Cheers, Mate.
i actually did the opposite lol . i was at a club one night , i was about 22 i think . and my mate said , hey dave , i bet yu cant be an irishman all night , i excepted the bet lol . we mainly played pool that night . so everytime i played a good shot . id yell out . awww mother of chrst , bless the angels , the wee little ball went in . full irish accent . if i missed a shot , id be like . arghhh paint me green n call me a leprechaun the blood thing cheated me it did . i had my mates rolling on the floor , a few chix came up n asked if i was irish ? , lol i said argh to be sure im from the emerald isle lassy . she bought it lol . i went on like that for a few hours , until i was drunk n forgot the accent . you could see ppl laughing and pointing . knowing they were saying . hey look , that bastards not irish after all , he's an aussie . i just told them , no im not ,,,,,, in an aussie voice , but i didnt lie . im not aussie , i was born in england lol .
I have a Melbourne Aussie accent. I remember once at a business dinner I was sitting with a fellow Aussie with a thick accent, a Brit from Essex, a Brit from London and an American from Utah. After about 5 minutes they were all looking at me weird. The Aussie asked if I was ‘taking the piss’ ( playing a joke at their expense) Apparently I was responding to each person in their respective accent and slang. Didn’t even realise I was doing it 😂 Amazing what a couple of wines at dinner does.
I can relate to that. Apparently every time I chatted with our Italian neighbours I spoke English the way they did. My children were very embarrassed and ashamed. I don't know what the Italian Australians thought. I didn't realise I was doing it until the kids told me.
I was in Thailand drinking with people from around the globe, and I met a guy from Darwin. We started talking a bit and an American leaned over and asked what language we were speaking. True story
Checkthisshiddout: I was staying at the dorms at University Of Wisconsin in 2018 (attending EAA Airventure/airshow week) - I said to one tired looking American guy the end of the day: "long day?" and he just looked blankly at me... ah sorry, say again? Take II: "Long day?" Same blank look, - then I realised what was going on and went to plan B: "Sorry, I'M Australian... Have you had a long day out at the airshow ??" Oh, yeah! Sure, It has been a long day. I swear he probably thought I was speaking Vietnamese to him. LONGG DAI?
In the early days of internet chat rooms, we would have so much fun misleading and generally confusing people. We had several Americans convinced that we still had a dowry to get married. Where you would have to list all the assets you were bringing to your marriage, from how many head of sheep, all the way down to ugg boots, and thongs.
About ten years ago I was dating an American girl and when she came to Australia and meet all of my mates there were a number of times where she'd have to ask me what someone was saying
You're right, mate, this is Aussie lingo on 10. It's very handy in a foreign country when you want to speak in confidence to a fellow Aussie. Oh, how we laugh!
I was on a social media site, and had a troll who would stalk me and stalk who I was talking to, and then try to mess with me by twisting my words and telling others lies about me, She was from the US, so to mess with her I started talking Strine (Aussie slang) to the max and ask my friends to talk Strine back to me! That stumped her, she had no idea what we were talking about!
Yeah right, you'll learn that handshake, you'll just have to carry half a kitchen with you. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah we don't say slangs, it is slang all day long, or adopted some slang words. The 4 and 20 just out of the oven is a hot pie. They were off to the servo for food, and a slab/carton of beer at the bottle-o on the way back, because the roads are chock-a-block/chock-full, so they walked.
The 1st time I showed my hubby my fave show, he's from the UK. He was like, what did I just watch? What's happening? Classic 🤣 I still get him with the lingo. He loves the castle lol
German here. I was introduced to Vegemite last summer. Can't get off the stuff anymore, it's on my sandwiches, in my lunch, I am addicted now. 😱 "Built like a real brick dunnie" is an expression I have adapted from Aussie RUclipsr Dave Jones. Love it! 🤗 And it's story-time: My dad was an English teacher. I had the best source for learning at home, thus. Dad died way too early, but I got the motivation for learning the language and the kick-starter from him, so when there was an extra English course in school I took it instantly. Like in the regular lessons, I had an A there (Well, an "Eins" or 1, in Germany the notes in school are numbers, the lower the number, the better.) When advanced courses became available I took them and just shone! I was _good_ at English! I was nineteen when a couple of friends of mine and I decided to do a 5 day trip to London. Bus rides from the Cologne train station were slow but cheap, so we took the bus, crossed the channel on a ferry at night, then on to Victoria Station. Started at 4pm on a Sunday, arrived at something like 5:30am the next day. (I have to add that I simply don't have the skill to sleep in cars, buses or trains. I thus hadn't slept over 20 hours when we got to Victoria Station..) At the ticket counter, there sat an old Londoner. Huge sideburns, some old schooly hat on and glasses that were so thick they magnified his eyes. I scratched up all English words I still had available in my sleepy head (yet approached him in good self confidence as, after all, I was really good at English!) and said: "A one-week ticket for central London, please!" The old chap replied something like "Foodlewoodlethoodle!". I heard noises that sounded remotely like the English I knew, but I couldn't recognize the words. I must have looked like my face was about to fall apart. He sighed and took a slip of paper, wrote the price down (I think it was £6 back then), held it against the window of his counter and repeated slowly and loudly what it said, so that even that thick Kraut might possibly understand it. Well, I did after all. I paid, got into our hostel room hours later. By that time my face probably really was falling apart. So much for self confidence with language you learnt in school. 🤣 That was a week to remember, I bet we left some impression with several people there. 🥳 Like, made our mark. Like when you walk through wet concrete. That kind of mark.😁 Well, we didn't lose any of our lot there, which was a lucky escape for us nutter den. I am not a big city-person, but I did fall in love with London a bit that week. But yes, I learnt that understanding the dialects of English is a key to survival for non-native speakers there and then.
Good onya Ian. We had a TV production company here, owned by Mr. Reg Grundy, called the Grundy Organisation. One always makes sure to have a clean pair of ' Reg Grundies' on. Hawthorn football club wear brown and yellow striped jumpers. Wearing your Hawthorn grundies means they're yellow at the front, and brown at the back. Cheers.
We do it here in the UK , we have many distinct accents here. I'm from Sheffield , depending where you come from within the city can alter the depth of your accent, but sometimes we like to mess with people who visit or live here, but weren't born here by deliberately using local slang which can be only found in use in specific parts of the city , or by people over a certain age, honestly it's hilarious watching people's reactions.
Born and grew up in UK, I know that. Lived in Portsmouth but moved to bath for a couple of Years (Near Bristol), and my parents said I was developing a real Somerset / Bristol accent. Ended up moving back to Portsmouth, and yes you can go a few miles away and the accent changes slightly depending which direction you go.
No wonder. The English spawned the language (clue is in the name: English > English people > England) there are more English accents and dialects spoken in England than in *all* other English-speaking countries combined.
I have a friend in Norway and we video call each other all the time her English is pretty good, anyway I was walking up the road in the little town I live in on the phone to my Norwegian friend and this old bloke who lives just out of town pulls up and starts talking to me asking how I'm doing and about his farm and anytime I wanted to go up on his farm there are some great views down into the river and valley. My Norwegian friend was still on the phone and she said I couldn't understand a word use were saying it sounded like bla.. bla.. bla! So I had to tell her in basic English 🤣😂
I like you Ian for liking the aussie slang or lingo , you guys over there are similar to us in almost all ways of life an lifestyle too , us an you are most compatible of the world
A squiz is a short, close look at something. It can also be used as a verb meaning to take such a look. Squiz is Australian and New Zealand slang. It is most commonly used as a noun, especially in phrases like have a squiz and give (something) a squiz
I worked in a Californian ski resort operating snow grooming machines. The boss had been to Australia many times so we had a lot of fun on the two way radio talking to each other. There was another 24 operators in their machines trying to make sense of what we were saying all night long. In the morning the management would listen in for a laugh as the CEO had also spent a lot of time in Aus and she was onto the lingo.
i just love our aussie sense of humour, everything is fair game and nothing is taking to seriously you just have to take the piss before someone else does it to you we love life and the people in it ,
You've learnt to speak and understand Aussie I watch on of your old ones other day You couldn't say Ford barra engine or the area in Vic they where built So you've come a long way you need to go back and watch 🤣 You now seem to understand how we pronounce our letters now Cheers 👍🇦🇺
My story involves a visit to Wallmart in Peoria Illinois while I was visiting my significant other. We needed some groceries and hardware items for a repair job I had been delegated to. She sent me to find some Ranch dressing and some Buttermilk Powder while she went to get some wood screws and paint. (She didn't trust me as I had been asking at the local hardware for anticlockwise woodscrews...aussie cyclones go clockwise and our screws go clockwise... in america hurricanes go anti clockwise, which is the opposite so the screws must go the otherway which is anticlockwise. :) ) Anyway she went to buy some paint at the hardware and I got my things and went looking for her. I asked a employee which way to the paint section She responded by asking me what I wanted a "pint " of ?? At this point my partner walked up and I said "No worrries she is sweet , me translator has rocked up so I can bugger off and leave you in peace. Onya for the assist. I remember looking back and seeing her staring at me. Guess she was in awe.....:)
There are plenty of people in the Northern Rivers area of NSW who speak EXACTLY like that. Lismore, Casino......Kyogle.......Jiggi. Some of my late Paw-n-Law's hotrodder mates around Woodburn sounded like this but slower.
I had an american roommate for many years, sometimes when we were talking I would have to stop and literally spell out words after multiple attempts of pronouncing it in different ways ("rural" was a particularly difficult one lol) to communicate what I was trying to say, and that's even with me holding off on weird australian idioms/colloquialisms
YES, mate. This DEFINITELY happens in OZ. And YES, we seriously LOVE messing with sepos/septic tanks/yanks. Too easy. Turn the strine up to 10! Lol. Cheers.
I love this! I’ve never really turned it up to 10 with an American (even though I grew up in a town that had lots of people from the US), but I’m a country girl, my partner is a *total* city boy, and he’s always cringing when I bring out my inner bogan (totally on purpose!) 😂 Having said that, these guys are hamming up so far that it’s even hard for those of us who speak Boganese 😜
In the early 2000s when i used to play an online game Americans had no idea what i was saying. Took them awhile to catch on but they were keen to learn some slang. I have the generic Aussie accent but after a few beers i would turn it up to level 11 slang just to mess with them. Was fun times
Back when I was young I was talking to an English woman and she asked me how a mutual friend and his wife were getting on. I replied that she had shot through. She was shocked and looked physically sick until I explained that "shot through" meant that she had left him.
I've messed with a few Yanks from Montana just from using slang when I was in Thailand but in an unintentional way. I needed to borrow a wheel barrow from one of them so I asked if I could nick off with it for a bit. It took me a few attempts to convince them that I needed to borrow the wheelbarrow for a few minutes!
The phrase "have a squiz" for having a look references Sqizzy Taylor, a famous Aussie gangster of the 1920s. I don't really know why. If you get a copy of the book or film "They're a Weird Mob" it tells the story of a fictional Italian migrant landing in Sydney in the 1950s and trying to understand the locals. It's still funny nearly 70 years later.
I love how, while I don't tend to use the lesser known slang here I can still understand it perfectly. If I even meet an American nothings will stop me
I let a mate order coffee at Dogtown Sanat Monica, his first trip overseas, they had no idea what he wanted, I had to step in and translate. For some reason also, "nah, yeah, I'm right" doesn't translate. 😂🤣🤣
man i didnt realise how much i use this everyday and how strange it would come across to a yank, but yeah it was a bit more full on but we can really turn it up to 10, we do use it with americans sometimes to really to em hahaha, legend.
lol, had no trouble understanding any of it, lol, see I dont think we talk fast, but then when I meet someone from another country, I realise we do, but that just makes it more fun once you realise lol
I just loved my trip to the states and had a ball takin the piss with me missus's rellos. They just had a ball with me spinnin heaps o yarns. Had em laffin their asses orf. Great times aye bro. 🤠🤣
Oh an to top that, I got a new colleague whose from Texarse. Had to explain the other day what a buzz box was.... oops! (I don't know what he was thinking) but the mind boggles lmao
My husband is Irish, we have been together for almost 20 years and I STILL find phrases I might use sometimes that I have to explain to him. My first one I remember having to explain was "shall we go have a sticky beak?" (Translation: "shall we go have a look?") but he ALSO finds Irish phrases that I don't understand so 🤷😅
I also know I have had to explain phrases but I didn't know how to explain them, so I'd use a different phrase that he still didn't understand.... I just wish I could remember what it was 😅
While they did ham it up a bit for the video, that is EXACTLY how a lot of Aussies talk. We can string several words together to make one new word, without even knowing we are doing it. 'G'day how ya going?' is usually pronounced as one if it's one word.
I once convinced a girl from California that drop bears are the reason koalas are endangered and she fully believed me, I, of course, said I was only kidding but you should have seen her face😂
When I was in USA - I asked a work mate "have a GANDER" at Bondi Beach photo I had in a mag. He looked at me lost - I meant LOOK AT THIS - A SQUIZZ is to have a look too.
I know these guys put it on for the entertainment, but it's still understandable to us even without the subtitles. I also love the look on the faces of foreigners when they try and decipher what the hell we just said. Funny as hell.
The whole lunch order convo. That made me laugh, I got everything they were saying, but I doubt Wrocker caught more than 3 words.
@T e l e g r a m me @iwrocker stop commenting this spam, Iwrocker doesnt have a telegram. !
The first guy saying give us a squiz mate
means let me have a look.
Hey mate lets hit the servo for some durries and a 4 and 20 and we’ll swing past the bottleo and grab a slab of piss on the way home…
Honestly pretty standard talk in the suburbs..
Depending on the situation we will definitely lean into the Aussie slang a bit more than usual. "Give us a squiz" just means "give me a look".
i named my character on splatoon 3 Squizzie as a portmanteau of squid and Lizzie… now i’m wondering how many australian players are reading it as lookie 😂
I speak what's called General Australian, just a mild, middle of the road accent. Ordering food and a drink at LAX, the attendant asked what language I was speaking. I replied “English”. He very slowly (as if to a two-year-old) said, “you speak Eeen-glissshhh?”. I told him”yes”, and repeated my order. He asked me could I maybe get an interpreter. I just pointed to what I wanted, paid, collected and walked away. My brother had been nearby and asked why I hadn’t smiled and said “thank you…” with the …. a not very complimentary Aussie slang word.
@@fizzycolalizzie adding ‘ie’ in Australian usually makes a word ‘smaller’ in meaning. So ‘taking a Squizz’ is having a look at something
‘Taking a Squizzie’ would be taking a little look/a peek at something.
Having a ‘look see’ and having a ‘lookie see’ respectively can be used in the same way.
@@fizzycolalizzieNever heard that as an Aussie myself (but we should have a squizzle season)
More like “Giz a squiz.”
When I lived in Scotland, I once caught a train with a Scot and an American in the same car. I could understand both, but the American couldn't understand the Scotsman and the Scotsman couldn't understand me (Aussie). One of the funniest trips I've had with strangers.
Another time I moved in with a new Scottish flatmate and I'd been living there for a few months when, one evening, she asked me what I was having for dinner. I answered, "I'm gonna cook a chook for dinner."
Her blank look told me she hadn't understood. I ran the sentence back through in my mind but couldn't think of anything she would be getting stuck on. Finally she asked, "What the hell is a chook?". Hadn't realised till then that 'chook' is an Aussie word.
Chook, the past tense of chick.
Being an Aussie myself, i can relate to all this slang, but i never realized how much i use this language every day until now 😂😂😂😂😂😂
SAME M8
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My little brother bought his American wife home to meet the family and actually got her to put Vegemite behind her ear before they left the plane so she wouldn’t get attacked by dropbears, and yes he is still married after 15 years but he does live in the best state of Massachusetts the home of the Mighty Boston Bruins. I am an Australian that loves ice hockey.
Aussie here too....Go the Bruins!!
😂
I hope your sister in law got him back! Poor love! 😉😉😉
@@shana6197 and what a year they are having I can almost smell the Stanley Cup already.
@@karenmcneill2602oh the country did when he realised how much seeing a medical professional costs!
I went to the US a few years back and I turned the Aussie up just to see the looks on the faces of the Americans that couldn't understand a word I was saying. Very entertaining! There was a Starbucks in NYC where I ordered a pecan latte. The poor girl couldn't understand me even when I dialled the Aussie down and spoke slowly. I ended up having to write my order down for her! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how we speak it can be quite fun on foreigners who don't understand our slang
Squiz is basically slang for look
I remember chatting with some friends in Facebook messenger a few years ago, most of which were American. We decided to chatting with audio. Only one or two of them could understand me until I deliberately slowed my speech just slightly. It was hilarious
It’s not exaggerated. I know many people who talk exactly like that all the time.
The brief expression on the face of the passer-by at 0:57 cracked me up, he be walking by all like “Why doesn’t this crazy American understand basic conversational language?” 😂
Reminds me of an experience I had about twenty years ago. I'm English from Yorkshire, and was working as a service technician in South Carolina, and was accompanied by a colleague who had never travelled before. I had visited the US quite a few times previously and had learnt to slow down my speech and speak clearly to communicate with the locals. My colleague however hadn't, and got really frustrated when I had to translate for him almost every time he spoke. The American guys we were working with commented that when we were talking to each other, it was like we were speaking a foreign language and couldn't understand a word.
Ive always loved my Aussie friends...vids like this make me absolutely adore them.. Love you guys!
Thank you. That was fun to watch.
Loving watching the world get to know us a little better 👍
When I first moved to Australia, I lived in a bogan suburb and couldn’t understand anything anyone said for two weeks. But you’d be right, mate. You’re bloody good at Strine mate. Cheers 🍻 👍🏼🦬🕷🇦🇺
Bogan is such a northern word, I used to think it just meant into Heavy Metal, I'd never heard the word before reading Lockie Leanoard.
And it turns out its what we'd call a Westy.
@@Goatcha_M Westie is Sydney slang
Uniform.
Black AC\DC Shirt
Flano and ripped jeans
Finished off with knee high UGG boots with tassels 😜🤣😉👍🏼🇦🇺
@@Goatcha_M It is (or was) Bevan in QLD, not bogan. Bogan has taken over with all the other overexaggerated rot on social media. Find an old bloke out in the sticks to hear natural slang.
@@Goatcha_M I'm pretty sure bogan is originally from Melbourne. I recall hearing it first on TV in late 1980s. Not commonly heard in Sydney at that time. It was spread by the Kylie Mole character on the Comedy Company.
@@Goatcha_M NAH not all westies are bogans, just the drop kicks
I do it every time I’m in the states… turn the Aussie up to 11 just to mess with everyone! I had a blast at the outback steak house no one knew if was joking or being serious lol
that is just evil.
Would do the same.
That’s another thing I love about our dry wit - people think we’re serious 😂
I went to an Outback Steakhouse in El Paso. The only genuine Australian thing in there was ME. Didn't even have BLOKES and SHEILAS on the dunny doors.
Many years ago, a friend and I lived in a tourist trap in the outback and often encountered visiting tourists when we were together. We would talk to the tourists normally, and when no tourists were present we'd talk to each other normally, but in front of tourists we'd talk to each other in the most extreme ocker and slang at full speed, because that was always fun. Even Aussie tourists from the capital cities used to be shocked by it because they knew what it all meant, but rarely if ever heard anyone use it all full on like that.
My eldest son is a master of it. He can pull out two different varieties: the same full-blown outback Aussie ocker I can use, and a thick Western Sydney strine with a slight Lebanese-Aussie accent. He has the most fun with it by using the Sydney one in the outback and the outback one in Sydney, never fails to get a reaction, even from other Aussies.
We have so many sayings and slangs here in Oz, and words that have totally different meanings. Eg. Blue in Oz can mean many things depending on the context of how it's used. Some ways would be, "To have a Blue", or "To get into a Blue", or "To pick a Blue". Blue stands for Fight. Then we have Blue Dogs which are Blue Heelers and as a nickname Ian, you having red hair would be could "Blue" or "Bluey" back in the day. Cheers, Mate.
I swear we are all guilty of it🇭🇲🤨🤣
World champion at it, and proud as all get out.
i actually did the opposite lol . i was at a club one night , i was about 22 i think . and my mate said , hey dave , i bet yu cant be an irishman all night , i excepted the bet lol . we mainly played pool that night . so everytime i played a good shot . id yell out . awww mother of chrst , bless the angels , the wee little ball went in . full irish accent . if i missed a shot , id be like . arghhh paint me green n call me a leprechaun the blood thing cheated me it did . i had my mates rolling on the floor , a few chix came up n asked if i was irish ? , lol i said argh to be sure im from the emerald isle lassy . she bought it lol . i went on like that for a few hours , until i was drunk n forgot the accent . you could see ppl laughing and pointing . knowing they were saying . hey look , that bastards not irish after all , he's an aussie . i just told them , no im not ,,,,,, in an aussie voice , but i didnt lie . im not aussie , i was born in england lol .
I have a Melbourne Aussie accent. I remember once at a business dinner I was sitting with a fellow Aussie with a thick accent, a Brit from Essex, a Brit from London and an American from Utah.
After about 5 minutes they were all looking at me weird. The Aussie asked if I was ‘taking the piss’ ( playing a joke at their expense)
Apparently I was responding to each person in their respective accent and slang. Didn’t even realise I was doing it 😂
Amazing what a couple of wines at dinner does.
I can relate to that. Apparently every time I chatted with our Italian neighbours I spoke English the way they did. My children were very embarrassed and ashamed. I don't know what the Italian Australians thought. I didn't realise I was doing it until the kids told me.
@@marieravening927 I do that with my Sicilian in-laws all the time 🤭😏
Aussie sence of humour 🤣👍.
I was in Thailand drinking with people from around the globe, and I met a guy from Darwin. We started talking a bit and an American leaned over and asked what language we were speaking.
True story
What a crack up 🤣 Ian. Now I've gotta take a gander/squiz/look at what else these blokes've got.
We say having a Dorrie - from the tv show Number 96, Dorrie Evans was the sticky beak always spying on the neighbours!
Checkthisshiddout: I was staying at the dorms at University Of Wisconsin in 2018 (attending EAA Airventure/airshow week) - I said to one tired looking American guy the end of the day: "long day?" and he just looked blankly at me... ah sorry, say again? Take II: "Long day?" Same blank look, - then I realised what was going on and went to plan B: "Sorry, I'M Australian... Have you had a long day out at the airshow ??" Oh, yeah! Sure, It has been a long day. I swear he probably thought I was speaking Vietnamese to him. LONGG DAI?
That's fucking gold mate 🤣
In the early days of internet chat rooms, we would have so much fun misleading and generally confusing people. We had several Americans convinced that we still had a dowry to get married. Where you would have to list all the assets you were bringing to your marriage, from how many head of sheep, all the way down to ugg boots, and thongs.
"Give us a squizz" is like "Let me take a look"
About ten years ago I was dating an American girl and when she came to Australia and meet all of my mates there were a number of times where she'd have to ask me what someone was saying
You're right, mate, this is Aussie lingo on 10. It's very handy in a foreign country when you want to speak in confidence to a fellow Aussie. Oh, how we laugh!
Laughed my guts out . Us Aussies love taking the piss out of one another. 😂
Squiz = give me a look.
😂🤣😂🤣
I love how there was a aussie and kiwi having a chinwag then American comes in , doesn't understand a word lol
I was on a social media site, and had a troll who would stalk me and stalk who I was talking to, and then try to mess with me by twisting my words and telling others lies about me, She was from the US, so to mess with her I started talking Strine (Aussie slang) to the max and ask my friends to talk Strine back to me! That stumped her, she had no idea what we were talking about!
Yeah right, you'll learn that handshake, you'll just have to carry half a kitchen with you. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah we don't say slangs, it is slang all day long, or adopted some slang words. The 4 and 20 just out of the oven is a hot pie. They were off to the servo for food, and a slab/carton of beer at the bottle-o on the way back, because the roads are chock-a-block/chock-full, so they walked.
I'm more Aussie when I don't give a F or I'm overseas. Great vid, thanks.
The 1st time I showed my hubby my fave show, he's from the UK. He was like, what did I just watch? What's happening? Classic 🤣
I still get him with the lingo.
He loves the castle lol
German here. I was introduced to Vegemite last summer. Can't get off the stuff anymore, it's on my sandwiches, in my lunch, I am addicted now. 😱
"Built like a real brick dunnie" is an expression I have adapted from Aussie RUclipsr Dave Jones. Love it! 🤗
And it's story-time: My dad was an English teacher. I had the best source for learning at home, thus. Dad died way too early, but I got the motivation for learning the language and the kick-starter from him, so when there was an extra English course in school I took it instantly. Like in the regular lessons, I had an A there (Well, an "Eins" or 1, in Germany the notes in school are numbers, the lower the number, the better.) When advanced courses became available I took them and just shone! I was _good_ at English!
I was nineteen when a couple of friends of mine and I decided to do a 5 day trip to London. Bus rides from the Cologne train station were slow but cheap, so we took the bus, crossed the channel on a ferry at night, then on to Victoria Station. Started at 4pm on a Sunday, arrived at something like 5:30am the next day. (I have to add that I simply don't have the skill to sleep in cars, buses or trains. I thus hadn't slept over 20 hours when we got to Victoria Station..) At the ticket counter, there sat an old Londoner. Huge sideburns, some old schooly hat on and glasses that were so thick they magnified his eyes. I scratched up all English words I still had available in my sleepy head (yet approached him in good self confidence as, after all, I was really good at English!) and said: "A one-week ticket for central London, please!"
The old chap replied something like "Foodlewoodlethoodle!". I heard noises that sounded remotely like the English I knew, but I couldn't recognize the words. I must have looked like my face was about to fall apart. He sighed and took a slip of paper, wrote the price down (I think it was £6 back then), held it against the window of his counter and repeated slowly and loudly what it said, so that even that thick Kraut might possibly understand it. Well, I did after all. I paid, got into our hostel room hours later. By that time my face probably really was falling apart.
So much for self confidence with language you learnt in school. 🤣
That was a week to remember, I bet we left some impression with several people there. 🥳 Like, made our mark. Like when you walk through wet concrete. That kind of mark.😁 Well, we didn't lose any of our lot there, which was a lucky escape for us nutter den.
I am not a big city-person, but I did fall in love with London a bit that week.
But yes, I learnt that understanding the dialects of English is a key to survival for non-native speakers there and then.
You learnt the polite version - the real version is "built like a brick shithouse" ;)
@@sueburn536 I like both versions! 😁
I am an Older Australian , and even I have to occasionally ask , " Sorry , say 'gain (again) " . Whole Sentence , one word , without vowels . 🤣
I love notchin' up the straya a bit when meetin' new people 🤣 ya get some weird looks for sure 😊
You are right Ian. We can dial it up whenever we want to mess with someone. We like practicing” amongst ourselves too.
This is hilarious! Loved the seatbelt skit lol
true that, I do the same whenever!
Good onya Ian. We had a TV production company here, owned by Mr. Reg Grundy, called the Grundy Organisation. One always makes sure to have a clean pair of ' Reg Grundies' on. Hawthorn football club wear brown and yellow striped jumpers. Wearing your Hawthorn grundies means they're yellow at the front, and brown at the back. Cheers.
We do it here in the UK , we have many distinct accents here. I'm from Sheffield , depending where you come from within the city can alter the depth of your accent, but sometimes we like to mess with people who visit or live here, but weren't born here by deliberately using local slang which can be only found in use in specific parts of the city , or by people over a certain age, honestly it's hilarious watching people's reactions.
Born and grew up in UK, I know that. Lived in Portsmouth but moved to bath for a couple of Years (Near Bristol), and my parents said I was developing a real Somerset / Bristol accent. Ended up moving back to Portsmouth, and yes you can go a few miles away and the accent changes slightly depending which direction you go.
No wonder. The English spawned the language (clue is in the name: English > English people > England) there are more English accents and dialects spoken in England than in *all* other English-speaking countries combined.
I have a friend in Norway and we video call each other all the time her English is pretty good, anyway I was walking up the road in the little town I live in on the phone to my Norwegian friend and this old bloke who lives just out of town pulls up and starts talking to me asking how I'm doing and about his farm and anytime I wanted to go up on his farm there are some great views down into the river and valley. My Norwegian friend was still on the phone and she said I couldn't understand a word use were saying it sounded like bla.. bla.. bla! So I had to tell her in basic English 🤣😂
I like you Ian for liking the aussie slang or lingo , you guys over there are similar to us in almost all ways of life an lifestyle too , us an you are most compatible of the world
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That was hilarious, thanks Ian.
A squiz is a short, close look at something. It can also be used as a verb meaning to take such a look. Squiz is Australian and New Zealand slang. It is most commonly used as a noun, especially in phrases like have a squiz and give (something) a squiz
I worked in a Californian ski resort operating snow grooming machines. The boss had been to Australia many times so we had a lot of fun on the two way radio talking to each other. There was another 24 operators in their machines trying to make sense of what we were saying all night long. In the morning the management would listen in for a laugh as the CEO had also spent a lot of time in Aus and she was onto the lingo.
If wondering how you get squiz to look, squiz derives from squinting. Usually taking a good look at something - squiz
i just love our aussie sense of humour, everything is fair game and nothing is taking to seriously
you just have to take the piss before someone else does it to you
we love life and the people in it ,
If i go to New York as a Dutchmen and they talk to me in New York dialect,i probably gonna have some problems understanding it.Keep dialect alive!!
You've learnt to speak and understand Aussie
I watch on of your old ones other day
You couldn't say Ford barra engine or the area in Vic they where built
So you've come a long way you need to go back and watch 🤣
You now seem to understand how we pronounce our letters now
Cheers 👍🇦🇺
More of this please Ian. 🇦🇺👍🏼
My story involves a visit to Wallmart in Peoria Illinois while I was visiting my significant other. We needed some groceries and hardware items for a repair job I had been delegated to. She sent me to find some Ranch dressing and some Buttermilk Powder while she went to get some wood screws and paint. (She didn't trust me as I had been asking at the local hardware for anticlockwise woodscrews...aussie cyclones go clockwise and our screws go clockwise... in america hurricanes go anti clockwise, which is the opposite so the screws must go the otherway which is anticlockwise. :) ) Anyway she went to buy some paint at the hardware and I got my things and went looking for her. I asked a employee which way to the paint section She responded by asking me what I wanted a "pint " of ?? At this point my partner walked up and I said "No worrries she is sweet , me translator has rocked up so I can bugger off and leave you in peace. Onya for the assist. I remember looking back and seeing her staring at me. Guess she was in awe.....:)
There are plenty of people in the Northern Rivers area of NSW who speak EXACTLY like that. Lismore, Casino......Kyogle.......Jiggi. Some of my late Paw-n-Law's hotrodder mates around Woodburn sounded like this but slower.
I hundred Percent agree with you.
I love that you love us Aussies
I had an american roommate for many years, sometimes when we were talking I would have to stop and literally spell out words after multiple attempts of pronouncing it in different ways ("rural" was a particularly difficult one lol) to communicate what I was trying to say, and that's even with me holding off on weird australian idioms/colloquialisms
YES, mate. This DEFINITELY happens in OZ. And YES, we seriously LOVE messing with sepos/septic tanks/yanks. Too easy. Turn the strine up to 10! Lol. Cheers.
I am Australian and few of those were beyond me. Well there are regional aspects to it as well. East Coast verses West Coast etc.
Hi mate the Kiwi's understand Cheers
I love this! I’ve never really turned it up to 10 with an American (even though I grew up in a town that had lots of people from the US), but I’m a country girl, my partner is a *total* city boy, and he’s always cringing when I bring out my inner bogan (totally on purpose!) 😂
Having said that, these guys are hamming up so far that it’s even hard for those of us who speak Boganese 😜
Nah mate, I understood everythin’, guess bein’ a country kid does that though given how many farmers and bogans there are around here
@@dantemadden1533 haha! Yeah the country bogan is pretty strong in some people 😉
Depends how deep the Ocker goes in the individual.
This bloke's family came from the First Fleet I'd reckon.
the check mate one was awesome LOL
Lots of Aussies still talk like that... especially when they get drunk :-P
I'd love to see an American's reaction to "She'll be apples. I'm gonna hit the frog." :)
I'm in America from Australia right now. In Florida. Had a few people not understand me lol.
In the early 2000s when i used to play an online game Americans had no idea what i was saying. Took them awhile to catch on but they were keen to learn some slang. I have the generic Aussie accent but after a few beers i would turn it up to level 11 slang just to mess with them. Was fun times
Ah the good ol pie and dad horse, even confuses some of my mates with that one.
Back when I was young I was talking to an English woman and she asked me how a mutual friend and his wife were getting on. I replied that she had shot through. She was shocked and looked physically sick until I explained that "shot through" meant that she had left him.
In 81 I tried to order a Coke at a Bar and after 3 attempts gave up and used my amateur American accent. Coke in Seconds.
I've messed with a few Yanks from Montana just from using slang when I was in Thailand but in an unintentional way. I needed to borrow a wheel barrow from one of them so I asked if I could nick off with it for a bit. It took me a few attempts to convince them that I needed to borrow the wheelbarrow for a few minutes!
That was a ripper. 😂
That was so friggin funny🤣🤣🤣
It happens the other way too.
I couldn't understand half the things that were said to me during a trip to USA.
As a Brit, I understood every word.
Yeah, a lot of it is similar to cockney style slang.
We have friends, the guy is English, his wife is German. I cannot understand hardly a word HE says!
the bit about MILO was spot on
The phrase "have a squiz" for having a look references Sqizzy Taylor, a famous Aussie gangster of the 1920s. I don't really know why. If you get a copy of the book or film "They're a Weird Mob" it tells the story of a fictional Italian migrant landing in Sydney in the 1950s and trying to understand the locals. It's still funny nearly 70 years later.
A shout !! …. Kings Bloody Cross
I love how, while I don't tend to use the lesser known slang here I can still understand it perfectly. If I even meet an American nothings will stop me
I let a mate order coffee at Dogtown Sanat Monica, his first trip overseas, they had no idea what he wanted, I had to step in and translate. For some reason also, "nah, yeah, I'm right" doesn't translate. 😂🤣🤣
Man that was very funny. classic.
I’m a Aussie and that’s pretty much how we speak bro. Lol
man i didnt realise how much i use this everyday and how strange it would come across to a yank, but yeah it was a bit more full on but we can really turn it up to 10, we do use it with americans sometimes to really to em hahaha, legend.
OMG Hilarious 😂 😃 😄 😁 🤣
Tbf seppos are soft targets for this. They're so literal and have no sense of irony 😂
lol, had no trouble understanding any of it, lol, see I dont think we talk fast, but then when I meet someone from another country, I realise we do, but that just makes it more fun once you realise lol
bloody hilarious! 🤣
I just loved my trip to the states and had a ball takin the piss with me missus's rellos. They just had a ball with me spinnin heaps o yarns. Had em laffin their asses orf.
Great times aye bro. 🤠🤣
Oh an to top that, I got a new colleague whose from Texarse. Had to explain the other day what a buzz box was.... oops! (I don't know what he was thinking) but the mind boggles lmao
The only people who can understand an Aussie is a Kiwi
The Four n Twenty comment is bloody true, its like you’re biting into the surface of the sun if you dig in too early
"Give us a squiz" equates to "Let me have a look" ;)
Squiz = look.
My husband is Irish, we have been together for almost 20 years and I STILL find phrases I might use sometimes that I have to explain to him. My first one I remember having to explain was "shall we go have a sticky beak?" (Translation: "shall we go have a look?") but he ALSO finds Irish phrases that I don't understand so 🤷😅
I also know I have had to explain phrases but I didn't know how to explain them, so I'd use a different phrase that he still didn't understand.... I just wish I could remember what it was 😅
I had an exchange student come over from Boston and he couldn’t understand a damn word I said for the whole two years he was there
While they did ham it up a bit for the video, that is EXACTLY how a lot of Aussies talk. We can string several words together to make one new word, without even knowing we are doing it. 'G'day how ya going?' is usually pronounced as one if it's one word.
djavagooweegend ?? zarstrous !! as the ad goes.
GROWING UP IN THE SOUTHWEST SUBURBS OF SYDNEY IN THE 80'S THERE WAS 2 DISTINCT WESTIE LANGUAGES, NORTH-WESTIE AND SOUTH-WESTIE
I once convinced a girl from California that drop bears are the reason koalas are endangered and she fully believed me, I, of course, said I was only kidding but you should have seen her face😂
Basically they are speaking Ocker.
When I was in USA - I asked a work mate "have a GANDER" at Bondi Beach photo I had in a mag. He looked at me lost - I meant LOOK AT THIS - A SQUIZZ is to have a look too.
Bit over the top, but fairly spot on with the language we use. 😝