Need help reading Australian

[vincegamer]

I started reading this book by an Australian writer and she baffled me with a couple of sentences. I\'ll quote as best I can remember:

\"The antipodian tone was peevishly struck. None of your Pom airs here.\"

I thought maybe Australians had a different meaning for antipodian or that Pom had some meaning to Australians because this text is totally meaningless to me.??????

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by vincegamer
I started reading this book by an Australian writer and she baffled me with a couple of sentences. I\'ll quote as best I can remember:

\"The antipodian tone was peevishly struck. None of your Pom airs here.\"

I thought maybe Australians had a different meaning for antipodian or that Pom had some meaning to Australians because this text is totally meaningless to me.??????

Poms is Australian slang for the Brits. Shortened from pomegranites...Not sure why.

Antipodian... Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth. (According to Dictionary.com)

Basically the author is saying the speaker sounded like a right Aussie and not some whinging Brit.

 

[finn17]

I speak Oz!

\"The aussie manner was in your face, none of your poncey, English, namby pamby mannerisms around here\".

That\'s as close as I can get out of context:flip:

 

[vincegamer]

Thanks. I guess I can see the gist of it.
Requires a bit more in-culture knowledge than I have.
I guess antipodian refers to Australia as it relates to Britain? (is there a mathematical formula for finding the antipode of a place if you know the latitute and longitude?)
So to Aussies consider the Brits stuck up and dandy? What exactly is an aussie manner?

For a little context, so far the story takes place in Japan near Hiroshima shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped. The soldiers maning the military hospital there are all Australian, but the main character\'s nationality has not been disclosed. Perhaps I\'m supposed to gather from this text that he\'s British? Ah well, I\'m sure I\'ll figure it out.

 

[laurence]

Aussie lingo...

Wow!!!

All I can say is that Dragonsreach and finn17 are two very clever doods!!!

I was born and bred in the land of oz and could hardly make sense of the couple of sentences you refered to.

You need look no further... You guys have translated perfectly for vincegamer.

By the way... While Aussies might find it cool to refer to people from England as whinging Poms. The fact remains that Aussies are way too prissy about things.

In addition... The majority or Aussies are of English decent. Ironic hey???

My main point... And sorry to distract from your original question vincegamer. But, my point is we\'re all humans and it\'s about time we learn to acceot eachother and get on with it.

I have a dream... That one day Chaos will learn to live in harmony with those good Spacemarine guys.

Peace.

 

[frenchkid]

Originally posted by vincegamer

So to Aussies consider the Brits stuck up and dandy? What exactly is an aussie manner?

I\'m afraid is not just the aussies, most people I know have that image of the UK. Kinda like american with hamburger and french with wine and hawain surfers. Bad stereotype that just stay there

 

[Medved]

pommies!

i always thought that pom was short for Prisoner Of Mother England. just one of those i picked up from the ashes tests and various aussie muppets.

 

[MarkusTay]

Hamburger is American?! I was taught it originated in Germany, along with the Hotdog (frankfurter). Next thing you\'re gonna tell me is that French fries aren\'t from France, or French toast for that matter.

Yeesh, at least I\'m sure about one thing, we invented pizza...

lol

 

[dauber22]

Originally posted by MarkusTay

Yeesh, at least I\'m sure about one thing, we invented pizza... :rolleyes )

lol

WEll,l even if we didn\'t invent it, we (the New World) had a major influence on Italian cuisine because the tomato is strictly a New World fruit (or vegetable, I\'m not getting in to that arguement ) so without the NEw WOrld there\'d be no red sauce.

 

[vincegamer]

Come on! Get into the argument!

Tomatoes are fruit AND vegetable!

Just look up the botannical definition of a vegetable. Fruit is a type of vegetable just as square is a type of rectangle.

(nerding his mouth off)

 

[frenchkid]

So are potatoes. See all that french cuisine with potatoes is all thanks to the New world !! :flip: hachit parmentier, gratin dauphinois, and of course french fries

 

[finn17]

Yup..

Originally posted by frenchkid

Originally posted by vincegamer

So do Aussies consider the Brits stuck up and dandy?

I\'m afraid is not just the aussies, most people I know have that image of the UK.

To the rest of the world we are either sipping tea from bone china cups and genteely nibbling on cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, or we are shaving our heads, draping ourselves in Union flags and kicking the living shit out of anyone who doesn\'t support our football team. \'S a funny old world

 

[provoke_me]

To the rest of the world we are either sipping tea from bone china cups and genteely nibbling on cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, or we are shaving our heads, draping ourselves in Union flags and kicking the living shit out of anyone who doesn\'t support our football team.

wait...so you dont do that?

 

[supervike]

The only Australian I can read...

Fosters is Austrailian for Beer, apparently.

 

[Xavier]

Originally posted by frenchkid
So are potatoes. See all that french cuisine with potatoes is all thanks to the New world !! :flip: hachit parmentier, gratin dauphinois, and of course french fries

Well in order to cover the french deserts we might as well add cherries and chocolate.

 

[MarkusTay]

So what? They were all chewing on pinebark before we came along? ???



The thing I don\'t get is how did the Irish have a potato famine that made them all come here in droves (including my Grandfather) when they only had potatoes for about a hundred years? In that short space of time they forgot how to grow anything else? ???

According to American history books, all you guys were still living in caves until we came along and gave you some class.

Except for the English, they were sipping tea out of china cups (pinky out) inside of THIER caves...

lol:bouncy::flip:

You want to talk about stereotypes? We don\'t all walk around talking and acting like Sylvester Stallone in the movie Rocky, only stupid NewYorkers do...................

Oh...wait a sec...


:innocent:

 

[nosferatu]

Originally posted by supervike
Fosters is Austrailian for Beer, apparently.

Yikes! Not likely. No-one drinks that shit here. We have real beer that tastes much better. We just export that crap to gullible foreigners.

As for Poms, I heard many years ago that it was actually an abbreviation of POHM, which stood for Prisoner Of Her/His Majesty. Of course most of us non-indigenous early immigrants were shipped over for free! lol

 

[Trevor]

Yeah, I thought Prisoner Of Mother England.

I have never seen Fosters over here, but there is lots of other lager to choose from (see earlier rant on beer).

Oddly in my experience Australia is a bit like Britain 10-20 years ago (especially in terms of banks, supermarkets etc), with a heavy injection of USA influence (I\'m gonna get lynched for saying that) and the Aussie \"mateship\" thing that seems to have come about from being dumped in a truly inhospitable place where you really needed to stick together to survive.

 

[Naukhel]

I thought pizza was invented by the chinese, originally... and \'westernized\' to what we know it as, now.

 

[Infidel Castro]

And thus lies the biggest problem of all, using England and UK interchangeably. Have a look at your maps folks! There are a few other little countries there too........................

Hey, Peter Carey is a top Oz author. Read his material if you want to get a little more in touch with Australians. Marvellous