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「やばいリンガル」Go off (盛り上がる)
米・英語では、何かがgo offすると、爆発するという意味を示すが、オージー英語の爆発はかなり違う。さて、どのようにだろう? When something goes off in the rest of the English-speaking world, it often means it’s explosive, but it’s an explosion of a different kind in Strine.
Fleeing Kangas Give Japanese Drivers a Roo-ed Shock
Four kangaroos escaped from a farm in the Chiba Prefecture town of Tomisato, east of Tokyo, on Friday, hopping wild on the roads for a few hours before being captured unharmed, police said. The kangaroos were being bred by a Tomisato-based trading company. A keeper apparently forgot to lock the roos’ cage on Thursday night…
RIP to a Ripper Bloke, Bob Hawke
Australia’s last man of the people to become prime minister is no longer. Robert James Lee “Bob” Hawke died earlier this week, just two days before his beloved Australian Labor Party is expected to re-take office in the May 18 federal election following six years of misrule by an incompetent Liberal–National Party coalition government. Hawke…
豪キャブラリー:No hoper
No hoperは死語に近いオージー英語でありながら今でも高齢者を中心に使われている言葉でもある。 直訳の通り「希望のない」人のことを示しながら「不良」や「悪者」の意味が含まれている言葉だ。
「やばいリンガル」Grouse (最高!)
「フェーマスグラウス(Famous Grouse)」は世界中で有名なウィスキーであり、grouseは米・英語圏ではライチョウの意味だけど、オージー英語になると完全に意味が異なる。さて、どのように? Outside of Australia, grouse is the name of a bird, most notably the one that gives its name to the globally recognized whiskey Famous Grouse. But what happens when the word gets Down Under?
豪キャブラリー:Bloke
Bloke is as much an icon of Strine as it is of cockney English.

