Well, as i am Australian, and it is the national day of our fair land, it would be wrong of me and certainly very un-cliched if i didn’t say G’DAY!!
G’DAY TO ALL OF YA!!! HOW YA GOIN’ ALRIGHT?
I am in fact working today which is both very unaustralian of me and also very unfrench. Confusing. In any case I suppose i’ll have to make my way down to Cafe OZ tonight and have a couple of glasses of our national pride to give myself some semblance of an identity – an inebriated one at that.
In the meantime, you must pay your respects to my great nation by learning a little bit of our language…it’s only fair, given that i have made the effort to learn English AND French.
poulette paris 
G’Day Shelia
With a vocabulary like this you should have been a language assistant!
All the best (and happy Aussieday)
Keith (A.K.A. The Breton Pom!)
Thanks Keith, i’ve got shit loads more shit than that too ey
Love it!
I’ll have to forward this to my cousin who is dating an Australian š
I just found your blog and loved it so much I went through the entire thing this afternoon š
Thanks Anait! Forward it on, your cousin will doubtlessly already know how lucky she is though!!
Well, I work on Bastille Day in Sydney, so it is about right that you work on AussieDay in Paris…
Had a lovely lunch in Bondi at pompei yesterday…just to make you jealous…
hahaha thanks Jean-marie, but you know what? It doesn’t make me jealous! If you had have told me that you had a lovely BBQ at my best friend’s house in Melbourne and then all went to my mum’s place for a swim – i would be totally jealous!
i’m missing a ‘like’ button for this post.
*click* ‘like’! Voila..
In addition to ‘drongo,’ isn’t there an aussie insult ‘ya great gala’ (with accent on the second a of gala)?
WTF is a drongo? Or a gala?
This is a rather complicated topic, given my growing up in the popular culture age. ‘ya great galah’, to me, if a dirivative of the classic line ‘ya flamin’ galah’ which was a popular insult coined by Alf Stewart of ‘Home and Away’ fame. A galah is a bird – bright pink and white – and commonly flies straight into your windscreen when you are driving through the country. So – flamboyant and a little bit crazy.
In terms of drongo, you ask an excellent question, i’ve no idea what the F a drongo is, except that i am one, most of the time.
Hahaha, I once saw a similar translation list for the local dialect of the people where I live in the Netherlands, which is a bit more -er- compact than standard Dutch as well.
lol, give us some examples!!
For those of you like Stu, who are teetering on the edge of insatiable anxiety, i have done some googling for you.
A ‘Drongo’ is actually also a bird! And a tropical one at that. I imagine somewhat similar to a Dodo…and the question that begs to be answered is…why are birds so dumb that we name all idiots after them??