Totally Oz

[den]

How well do you know your strine?

18/20, but they threw in a couple of terms I've never heard before. Must be Crow Eaters.

Comments

[jamesb]

You got 20 answers right.
You got 0 answers wrong.

You're a bottler, mate!
You are a fair dinkum, ridgy didge, dinky die, true blue, dyed-in-the-wool Ocker-like strine speaker. Well bugger me, you could probably even play a didgeridoo and know the proper way to twirl a billy. Goodonya. Get us another stubbie while you're up, will ya... and have one yourself while you're at it!

Guess I need more practice...

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

LOL - 14 out of 20.. missed 6, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18. - some of them were pretty tough

"You're a battler. Not much of a one, mind... but getting there.
You will have no trouble getting around, and understanding most things that are said to you. However avoid RSL clubs and old peoples homes, the nuances are lost on you."

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Stodged and Mag.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

17/20. I'll be able to communicate with the locals, but they'll still call me a Bloody Yank behind my back. :-)

[jamesb]

Both of them are rather old-fashioned. I haven't heard either for about 30 years.

Don't worry, the FTA means that they'll both be forgotten soon enough and replaced with something trendy from the USA ...

[damienps.livejournal.com]

17/20

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

You'll always be a seppo to me. 8)

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

You got 20 answers right.
You got 0 answers wrong.

You're a bottler, mate!
You are a fair dinkum, ridgy didge, dinky die, true blue, dyed-in-the-wool Ocker-like strine speaker. Well bugger me, you could probably even play a didgeridoo and know the proper way to twirl a billy. Goodonya. Get us another stubbie while you're up, will ya... and have one yourself while you're at it!


i 'guessed' stodger and mag

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

15/20...guess I'll have to stay here :(

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

I got 16/20.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a "Pommie Bastard", I got 20 out of 20. OK, I had to guess one or two, but "Get in behind" I've actually heard used by a sheep farmer in the Lake District.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

the person who made this quiz sounds to be an american...

at least, to my thoughts, we never 'twirled' the billy, we always Swung it

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

17/20, which ain't bad for not knowing what I was talking about!

Y'know, one thing that surprised me in some of the Strine quizzes and articles you've linked here, is that many of the expressions listed as Australian are also current in my neighborhood. Granted I live in a part of the US that was overrun by Canadians (both my grandfathers' familiy lines were Canadian), so there's considerable shared ancestry.

Not that any of the ones on this quiz are used around here, that I know.