Alright, are you Australian? I certainly am. Can you give me any words or phrases that typically Australian slang? Bogan. Okay and you have to explain it, because people are watching this that don't know. So a bogan is like, a person who- Well I don't know, basically around here you can probably see a lot of bogans, they do tend to hang around Cavill Avenue. They're kind of someone who drinks a lot of beer, doesn't really care about what they look like, what they do with their life. Just- I don't know. There are lots of nice bogans, though. And then there are lots of really mean bogans. <i>But can you call a bogan, a bogan?</i> <i>Or is that gonna get you in trouble?</i> No, that can get you in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I mean it's kind of crosses a lot of lines. Well we have an obsession with shortening things. So I suppose "sca-in'on", what's going on. <i>Can you say that again?</i> Sca-in'on Sca-in'on mate. What about you? Oh well we've also got a word for what people would say sweatpants, we call them trackie-dacks. Yeah, trackie-dacks that's for sure. Petrol station is servo. Liquorland is bottle-o There's a lot of O's in things Swimmers, we say cozzies. <i>Oh do we? I didn't even know that!</i> Yeah it was a big one in primary school. So if you're wanting to tell someone no, you would say "yeah nah" Or if you're wanting to say yes, you'd say "nah yeah" <i>Yeah nah means no, nah yeah means yes?</i>
Yeah nah means no, yeah-wait... yeah! <i>Yeah?</i>
Yeah. Oh the servo is the service station There's "do a u'ey" for do a u-turn The bottle-o is the bottle shop I got one, I got one Instead of saying afternoon, you say arvo That's what you do in Australia <i>That's a good one</i> To say Christmas, you say Chrissie To say present, you say pressie So Christmas present would be chrissie pressie First up, Maccas. Gold old classic that's McDonalds. Got anything good? It's weird, but when I first came here I didn't know what an ambo was. It's an ambulance. Muzzed. Which is like my favourite word. And it just means messed up. Cheeky barbie. That's like a barbecue. In the afternoon it's called an arvo. So we're going for arvo drinks tonight. Having a bevvie, like a beverage. Grog? Grog. That's an old one. Isn't that like liquor? Liquor. Smoko, isn't that like a break? Yeah, like break. Drongo is an old slang term for idiot. Here's a popular one. Instead of saying cigarette, it's duzza. I was just thinking that. Taking a duzza VB. Victorian Bitter. Or a Boag's Draught. <i>Can you explain - what is that for people</i> <i>that don't know what it is</i> It's the best beer on Earth. A thing that Aussies do, is we are grammatically incorrect. We never say "how are you going?", we say "how are you doing?" Is that like, wrong? How are you doin'? How ya going? Another thing that's wrong is shrimp on the barbie. We don't call them shrimp, we call them prawns. And you don't cook them on a barbie, you boil them! Yeah hold up, yeah. We don't do shrimp on the barbie, we do barbies, but we don't do shrimp. Something I learned coming to the Gold Coast was that everyone ends their sentences with "but". You know instead of saying "though", you say "but". So you say "It's good but." <i>But then you don't follow it with</i> <i>anything else?</i>
You don't follow it with anything else, it's just "but". No problems, no worries. Apparently that's very Australian. I have an American friend, no worries is not said anywhere else. No wozzas. <i>What's that?</i> No worries.
<i>Yep</i> I mean, we shorten names to everything because we can't just say the whole thing. Like Bazza, Shazza. Like Barry and Sharon. My name is Lauren, in case you were wondering. So Lauren --> Lozza. Chucking the "za" on everything. What else? Well I'm just going home to chuck a shrimp on the barbie, actually. Now that you ask. <i>Yeah but we don't actually do that</i> Don't we? <i>I've never heard anyone say that.</i> Maybe a big shrimp. <i>Yeah, we call it prawn</i>
A prawn. <i>Are you lying to me now? Are you actually</i> <i>Australian?</i> Yeah yeah, absolutely. I've got some shrimp in my bag. So like, get on the piss, so get on the alcohol. So get smashed basically. Get drunk. And then after the bottle-o, you know. You go to the bottle-o, you get your piss and get drunk. Drive home, get smashed. Don't do that but. <i>Even though you explained it, I think half</i> <i>the people aren't going to understand it.</i>
Yeah, fair enough. <i>Can you do it slower?</i> Rightio, so. Get on the piss... like get on the alcohol. Get smashed, get drunk. Umm, yeah so, that's really what it is. <i>So, you guys are from Germany?</i>
Yes. <i>Have you heard any Australian slang since</i> <i>you arrived?</i> For sure, but- <i>Or any that you didn't understand that I</i> <i>could explain?</i> Yeah, but I don't remember. I just know like g'day and mate and stuff. I don't know the other words. <i>Alright, let me teach you one.</i> <i>Arvo. Do you know what that means?</i> Again? <i>Arvo. A-R-V-O.</i> A R?
<i>V O.</i> <i>It means afternoon</i> <i>Yeah, so this arvo is this afternoon.</i> <i>It's very popular in Australia</i> I've never heard about that. <i>Well that's yours, use it! Use it now,</i> <i>when you go out.</i> So yeah I went to the Pacific Fair this arvo. It was good. <i>Perfect. And then just chuck mate on the end.</i> Hey mate, I was at the Pacific Fair this arvo. It was really nice. <i>Are you Australian?</i> Oh maybe. ## If you're reading this ##
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