h'work for w/e 6.9.21 ... OUR AUSSIE SPEAK WAS QUITE UNIQUE
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:20 am
OUR AUSSIE SPEAK WAS QUITE UNIQUE .. Maureen Clifford © The #ScribblyBarkPoet
Is our Aussie slang really dying or at least taking a hit?
Being replaced by Americanisms - words that just don't fit.
From early convict beginnings a mish mash of pommy phrases
mingled with other snippets of language from throughout the ages.
It's the bawdy slang of our diggers, the Aussie speak of our land.
the spiel of irreverent ANZAC's a staunchly brave gutsy band
of men who formed this country's backbone, men who fought to keep it free
and I bet they're rolling in their graves now , amazed at what they see.
He's 'lower than a black snake's belly', was once a commonly used phrase
a description that's very accurate and so it shouldn't amaze.
It's used to describe a right bastard, someone whose morals are low -
a ne'er do well, thief, cheat or mongrel , a fair dinkum so and so.
The tag ' two snags short of a barbie' doesn't really stretch your brain
for a barbie just served with onions would be considered fair game
for rude vociferous criticism - has someone lost the plot?
For when Aussie's enjoy a barbecue; they like the bloody lot.
'dumb as a hammer' is pretty damn dumb, what a picture is sown,
a tool that's good for driving nails but blessed with no brain of its own.
A mere lump of heavy metal hafted onto a slab of wood
it can only really do one job so for most things it's no good.
If you could 'ride to Bourke on that knife and you wouldn't cut your bum'
it means the knife you're using must be blunt 'cause I'm telling you chum
from Wilcannia that road is dirt , and often there is a delay
or perhaps it is saying you're stupid - just in another way.
Our own Aussie speak is quite unique. Will we heritage betray
if we lose it? It doesn't matter - I can hear some folk here say.
But do we want to be a clone of the old USA at worst?
Our loved iconic Akubras replaced with baseball caps reversed.
The ' roos loose in the top paddock', do we want to see them dispersed
and replaced with something different - un-Australian, unrehearsed?
Do we want our Utes to be renamed and described as Pickup trucks?
Do we really give a dam at all if our language comes unstuck?
'cross the world language is evolving, populations now are 'woke',
the words of C J Dennis aren't the words now of an Aussie bloke,
nor indeed a sentimental bloke - times have changed we're moving on
and the Aussie lingo as she was is going, going, gone.
Is our Aussie slang really dying or at least taking a hit?
Being replaced by Americanisms - words that just don't fit.
From early convict beginnings a mish mash of pommy phrases
mingled with other snippets of language from throughout the ages.
It's the bawdy slang of our diggers, the Aussie speak of our land.
the spiel of irreverent ANZAC's a staunchly brave gutsy band
of men who formed this country's backbone, men who fought to keep it free
and I bet they're rolling in their graves now , amazed at what they see.
He's 'lower than a black snake's belly', was once a commonly used phrase
a description that's very accurate and so it shouldn't amaze.
It's used to describe a right bastard, someone whose morals are low -
a ne'er do well, thief, cheat or mongrel , a fair dinkum so and so.
The tag ' two snags short of a barbie' doesn't really stretch your brain
for a barbie just served with onions would be considered fair game
for rude vociferous criticism - has someone lost the plot?
For when Aussie's enjoy a barbecue; they like the bloody lot.
'dumb as a hammer' is pretty damn dumb, what a picture is sown,
a tool that's good for driving nails but blessed with no brain of its own.
A mere lump of heavy metal hafted onto a slab of wood
it can only really do one job so for most things it's no good.
If you could 'ride to Bourke on that knife and you wouldn't cut your bum'
it means the knife you're using must be blunt 'cause I'm telling you chum
from Wilcannia that road is dirt , and often there is a delay
or perhaps it is saying you're stupid - just in another way.
Our own Aussie speak is quite unique. Will we heritage betray
if we lose it? It doesn't matter - I can hear some folk here say.
But do we want to be a clone of the old USA at worst?
Our loved iconic Akubras replaced with baseball caps reversed.
The ' roos loose in the top paddock', do we want to see them dispersed
and replaced with something different - un-Australian, unrehearsed?
Do we want our Utes to be renamed and described as Pickup trucks?
Do we really give a dam at all if our language comes unstuck?
'cross the world language is evolving, populations now are 'woke',
the words of C J Dennis aren't the words now of an Aussie bloke,
nor indeed a sentimental bloke - times have changed we're moving on
and the Aussie lingo as she was is going, going, gone.