Here, in this paddock on this weekend, there’d be no designer drugs. No doof-doof music. No baggy skate pants revealing bumcracks. … Instead, Kate knew there’d be booze and boots and ‘bloody-oath, mates’ and good, old-fashioned piss-wrecked fun.
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Popularity of “Canberra bashing” lands it in the dictionary
Although the city of Canberra is coming of age and celebrating its centenary this year, Canberra bashing remains a popular national pastime. So much so that the Australian National Dictionary Centre is adding it to the Oxford’s Australian National Dictionary. Oxford University Press reveals the story behind the latest addition.
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Putting language documentation in the hands of the speakers
Linguist Bruce Birch reports on the recent work of the Minjilang Language Team who are pioneering the use of mobile devices to document Australian languages.
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Are we talking Aussie?
The Australian dialect is a recurring topic here at Fully (sic). Guest blogger Nenagh Kemp from the University of Tasmania tells us about her recent research into one of its most distinctive features, hypocoristics.
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Ingrid Piller scoops Talkley Award
A belated congratulations to Ingrid Piller, winner of the 2012 Talkley Award for an individual who has done the most to increase public knowledge about language. Ingrid is a very worthy recipient of this new prize due to her outstanding work as a blogger, her regular media appearances, her promotion of bilingual education and her [...]
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Maintaining Indigenous languages: revering a distant past or contributing to a better future?
Special guest Dr. Bill Fogarty argues that Indigenous language maintenance and education is not about reverence for some distant past for esoteric reasons. Rather it is an important asset that can play a role both in developing a future for Indigenous communities and in benefiting the socio-economic fabric of the Australian Nation.
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Indigenous languages in the theatre
Student guest blogger Mercedes Roetman writes… In the last few years I have been to see a number of plays where the main language has been an Indigenous Language. The first play I would like to talk about is a play called Ngapartji Ngapartji – meaning ‘I give you something, you give me something’. The play was held [...]
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Australian English revealed: introducing the AusNC
Simon Musgrave writes: What is a corpus and why should we have one? It sounds like the way a low-life character in Dickens might refer to a dead body. (The word does not occur in Dickens in that sense, but his contemporaries did use it in that way –see OED.) But in recent usage (at [...]
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Is ‘Buckley’s chance’ un-Australian?
Bruce Moore writes: The latest edition of NZWords prints some research from Stephen Goranson of Duke University, North Carolina, who points out that many of the early references to Buckley’s chance (or Buckley’s show or Buckley’s hope or Buckley’s choice) appear in New Zealand newspapers. Goranson had access to the Australian evidence via the Australian National Dictionary, [...]
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