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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2012, 04:37:05 AM » |
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2012, 07:37:06 AM » |
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Fings Ain't What They Used To Be.
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2012, 07:42:07 AM » |
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Fings Ain't What They Used To Be.
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2012, 03:06:49 PM » |
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Don’tcha mean Wot, Rob? Drat! I find slumming so difficult! Rob C |
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« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2012, 06:06:38 PM » |
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Drat! I find slumming so difficult!
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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2012, 03:58:02 AM » |
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And throwing in the odd Guv provides a bit of additional verisimilitude … Wotcha... No Bow Bells in Mallorca, mate, I'm struggling already! Rob C |
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 03:38:17 AM » |
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what language ar you guys talking?
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 04:53:31 AM » |
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what language ar you guys talking?
English English. Rob C |
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2012, 06:05:20 AM » |
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what language ar you guys talking?
Bit a Cockney, guv, if ya know wot I mean … Pays to be a citizen of The Commonwealf, to unnerstand, innit? (and being born around the middle of the twentieth century or earlier helps) An I mus arsk, me old china, are you a Septic? Fings you gotta explain— gorblimey! |
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2012, 07:39:38 AM » |
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As one who was born within the sound of the Bells of Bow I feel I must protest at this clichéd and politically incorrect depiction of us Cockneys.
Yer all a load of merchant bankers.
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2012, 07:59:40 AM » |
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As one who was born within the sound of the Bells of Bow I feel I must protest at this clichéd and politically incorrect depiction of us Cockneys.
Yer all a load of merchant bankers.
Is that rhyming slang for *wankers*? [so, merchants then?] |
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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2012, 08:05:20 AM » |
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Born in South Australia in the ’50s to a father who liked his rhyming slang, I find the loss of it here, and elsewhere, to be a mournful thing.
Australian *yoof* increasingly obtain their *kulcha* from US sources, including the annoyingly-drawled Valley Girl accent. And we’ve pretty much lost our regional accents too.
Arrrrrrrgh!
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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2012, 08:18:57 AM » |
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Is that rhyming slang for *wankers*? [so, merchants then?] Yup. I felt merchants rather than merchant bankers would be a little too abstract for the majority here. Having been raised on a council estate by well spoken parents I can switch between BBC English and cockney or Sarf London English at will. |
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« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2012, 08:25:04 AM » |
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Yup. I felt merchants rather than merchant bankers would be a little too abstract for the majority here.
Having been raised on a council estate by well spoken parents I can switch between BBC English and cockney or Sarf London English at will.
Sarf. Love it! Don’t know how the poms have managed to keep the cultural imperialism at bay, in the manner that we in Oz have conspicuously failed to do … You may like this: chavs versus bogans. |
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« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2012, 08:31:45 AM » |
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I once met an Australian who was appalled that the British have first and second class postage.
I kid not!
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« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2012, 08:35:07 AM » |
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I once met an Australian who was appalled that the British have first and second class postage.
I kid not!
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« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2012, 08:41:54 AM » |
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Interesting article.
And to think I'd assumed that Australia was essentially a classless society!
As my wife says to assume makes an ass of u and me
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« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2012, 08:47:11 AM » |
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Class is everywhere! But Britain has had more time to get it properly stratified. And the nouveau riche are looked down on too. Check out Rose Porteous. Hancock’s daughter is now one of the richest sheilahs [couldn’t resist] in the world. |
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« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2012, 02:20:23 PM » |
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Born in South Australia in the ’50s to a father who liked his rhyming slang, I find the loss of it here, and elsewhere, to be a mournful thing.
You may like this. |
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