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Have A Very Merry Mad Max Xmas!
It was with great delight that I learned overnight that Christmas in Japan in 2025 will have a tinge of Aussie about it. And my enthusiasm was in no way quelled by the fact that this merely meant a screening of Mad Max. With a message of “Merry Mad Max,” National broadcaster NHK‘s Premium Cinema…
Sandgroper/西オーストラリア人
Sandgroper Australian English A native or resident of the state of Western Australia. A West Australian. A Westralian. The name comes from an insect that lives in the state, but has become the nickname of Western Australia’s inhabitants. Western Australia has a greater land area than any other state in Australia, but much of it…
Strine in Practice – in Japan
Here’s a native Strine speaker giving a news report from Japan. Mind you, his Strine is not broad, but of the more cultured variety. 彼はストライン(オージー英語)を母国語とする人であり、日本でのニュース報道を行っている。しかし、訛りはあまり強くなく、洗練されている。
「やばいリンガル」 Flog (鞭打ちする)
米・英語では誰かをflogすると鞭打ちするという意味だ。しかし、オージー英語では何かをflogするという意味になる。まさか鞭打ちしっぱなしじゃないよね?どのように違うのか見よう。 To flog someone in English as it is spoken in most countries would mean to whip them. But in Strine, the word also has additional meanings. Read on to find out what they are.
豪キャブラリー: Rage
Rageはほかの英語圏の国でいうと「怒る」か「おこる」の意味になるがオージー英語では同様の使い方の上に「盛り上がる」という意味にもなる。英語ではステロイド服用の副作用である怒りをroid rageと言い、車などの事故後の激怒はroad rageだけどオージー英語のall night rageは一晩中怒っているという意味じゃなくて、一晩中遊んでいるという意味になる。
The Strine Why Atorkin: Natchrule Strine
Read this in Plain English/プレーン英語で読む Read this in Japanese/日本語で読む Chrissie It was getting close to Chrissie, which prompted me to chuck a sickie. I was still in the nuddy, so I slipped on some grundies. I went to light up a durry, but I’d run out and had to have a rollie. It was perfect…

