Say 'Australian' real quick in a twangy, commoner sort of way and it sounds like 'Strine.' It was the title of a hilarious book which invents new/old words to describe the not-the-queens-English pronunciations of the Australian version of the language. It's author went by the pen name of Afferbeck Lauder (alphabetical order...get it?) Without further ado...
Went out for dinner and said “
Eye level arch play devoisters, emma chisit? I'll have a large plate of oysters, how much is it?” before going to the dunny [slang for toilet] only to find that
car nope nit! Slokt! Gunga Din! I can't open it! It's locked! Can't get in! Didn’t stay long, went back to my
terror souse terrace house which is a
nigh soame nice home with
egg nishner air conditioner, but then it hit me –
yerron yerrone you're on your own.
Warm-eye gonadoo What am I going to do?
Iker nardly liver air chew I can hardly live without you anymore!
Yuma snow-eye Nietzsche laugh You must know I need your love!
Phoney wicked beer loan If only we could be alone!
Things were better in the days of
sly drools slide rules. Now,
tea natures teenagers wouldn’t know, but
aorta they ought to. Maybe that’s just
sag rapes sour grapes though.
No eyed ear is no idea, obviously.
Strine (virtualteacher.com.au)
