She’s brilliant at acknowledging local culture and using colloquial phrases to connect with her audiences. And she nailed it with “yeah-nah”.
Through characters such as Bazza McKenzie, the late comedian promoted Australian vernacular – the witty, the crude, and both – to new audiences.
It’s one of those hard-working little linguistic scraps like “you know” or “I mean”, but there’s also a rich vein of humour in the little discourse marker “a bit”.
The beauty of language isn’t always in the words a phrase contains, but in the words it doesn’t.
Whatever you think of gloriously fused idioms, they’re one of the vital signs of the “pulsing life of language”.
It’s so quintessential that it has a habit of slipping into nearly every other phrase without a thought. Yep, it’s …
An extensive study is underway to catalogue Australian slang, its origins, and why it’s such an important part of our language.
We may no longer say ‘shiver me timbers’, but we still use plenty of pirate words for other things.
Australia once identified itself as the “lucky country”, a place where the “Aussie battler” was given a fair go, but can it still lay claim to this?
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