Funny as!

The more time we spend here, the crazier the lingo gets. I'm sure there will be quite a few more posts about Aussie slang before we leave this country, but here are some interesting bits of knowledge you'll never need:

Hooning -- Driving recklessly. Recently in the news, Lewis Hamilton's car was impounded in Melbourne for this very reason.
Bitumen -- They don't call it asphalt. Is there a difference? Not one I care enough to find out about.
Mob -- Your group of people, originating from Aboriginal tribes.
Kane -- To kane someone is to kill them. To say you're kaned is to say you're feeling dead tired. Kaning your car or bike is to "go the other side of lightspeed."
Biscuits -- Cookies, not biscuits!
Stuffed -- If you stuff up, you mess up. Similar to scrubbing (remember that from 1997??)
Fair dinkum -- True, genuine. My boss has this tattoo.
Cobber - Friend, mate.
Partner -- Spouse, bf/gf.. used for everything and not strictly gay like in the states.
Festy -- Nasty, derived from "fester" not "festive."
Petrol -- Not the same as gasoline, and they will make sure you know it.
Dead Horse -- Tomato sauce (still not as good as Ketchup).

And remember that to pull off the accent, never pronounce the "r" in words, and "o" always follows "y"... which is what sets Australian apart from British. You'll hear "doyn't" instead of "don't." Another form of speech that resembles the Cali valley-girl style ends sentences with "as." Examples:

I'm hungry as!
This way of talking is retarded as!

It leaves everyone else in the world thinking "as what?" But that's how some people talk. Apparently it's bigger in New Zealand.



Also a lot of the times that you see "Hotel" it's probably just a pub. Hotels are called apartments, and apartments are just units or flats. As proven by comedian Arj Barker, you can go around making up words in Australia and people won't even question it. I'm just havin a little squigery-didge.