Comments on: Eight Months To Polish Up My “G’day, Mate”

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:36:54 +0000

Congrats! I’ll intro you to my aussie nptech buddies.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:36:55 +0000

Wow, I’ve learned so much already in terms of vocabulary!

And yes Alisa, I do wish there was room/time to jump the ditch; I am super fond of my previous visits to the land of the long white cloud.

By: ailsa

ailsa — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:33:07 +0000

Its a long way to come to miss out on a kia ora, I will wave from across the ditch

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:11:47 +0000

I hope you will have time to blog it as you go! Congrats. You’ll have a blast and if anything like me, meet great people and learn a ton. I love it when someone else sponsors me to come learn!

By: PatrickQG

PatrickQG — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:12:59 +0000

Important distinction between Aussie and Ozzie.

Ah VB, a beer I just can’t drink. It’s so… yeah.

Not an Austrlian though, maybe that’s why.

By: Sean FitzGerald (aka Sean McDunnough)

Sean FitzGerald (aka Sean McDunnough) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:04:03 +0000

Indeed… you caught me out on the Fosters. I just thought it would be more internationally recognisable than VB!

You didn’t pick up on ‘shrimp’… we actually call them ‘prawns’ here.

And no self-respecting Aussie would call themselves an Ozzie… that’s a name reserved for burnt-out, drug-addled rockers! :-)

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:42:25 +0000

Sounds good, though if I recall correctly from my previous trips, no self respecting Ozzie drinks Fosters, more like Carlton Gold, XXXX, or Tooheys ;-)

I found my old dictionary- http://dommy.com/az2nzau/whatwhy/oztalk.html

By: Sean FitzGerald (aka Sean McDunnough)

Sean FitzGerald (aka Sean McDunnough) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:34:45 +0000

Strewth cobber! You bloody beauty! When you get here I’ll throw another shrimp on the barbie and shout you a Fosters! :-)