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WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: LJFelix on 05 Mar 2014, 02:59 ---Remember that comic time is a lot slower. For us, this arc's taken the last two months, but for Marten it's been like four days?
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I make it less than two days. Party Saturday evening, today's strip Monday morning
Akima:
--- Quote from: LJFelix on 05 Mar 2014, 01:44 ---Akima, when you say "Australianisms", are you referring to those nasal Eastern-State Australianisms? Or what people think we sound like - "shrimp on the barbie"et al ?
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Mate, I didn't have accents in mind so much as vocabulary, but if you're going to put the acid on me, I'd better come up with something and give you the full SP before you go burko! Australian English comes within a bull's roar of British English, but if we're fair dinkum about it, there are more oddities than you can shake a stick at. If you dress badly, you're a warb. A member of the "deserving poor" is a battler, but if you think they're lazy or otherwise undeserving, they become a bludger (bludge is a verb too, especially in the phrase "bludge on the dole"), pronounced "bluja". You barrack for your football or cricket team, and after the game you soothe your throat with a schooner of beer. And so on. There are some Australians who might claim they never use such expressions, but I suspect they are would-be members of the bunyip aristocracy who are just putting on the dog.
Chowdah? That's how I pronounce it; doesn't everyone? :angel:
Is it cold in here?:
"Divided by a common language".
jwhouk:
Oh, fer criminy cripes sake. Howsa long you guys gonna put all this bull hockey out dere hey about different accents, aina?
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Mar 2014, 07:54 ---"Divided by a common language".
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Which is what I was getting to.
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
Hm. The moment Marten explains himself, I think Claire's going to settle down.
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