Dragaera

House Animals

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at comcast.net
Tue Aug 19 17:24:32 PDT 2003

Must one be a trained linguist or merely a cunning one?
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 01:41 AM, David Silberstein wrote:

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>   [ Ahem!  Editing of the To: & Cc:, please...  Thanks. ]
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> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Philip Hart wrote:
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>>> 'strewth, mate!
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>>>    http://www.moxon.net/australia/drop_bears.html
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>>> And 'ere Oi thawt Steve-o were an 'ungarian, nowt an Ozzie!
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>> Latin, gibberish, ...  - I miss the good old days when this list used
>> English.
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>     Do not attempt to use any Australian slang, unless you are a
>     trained linguist and good in a fistfight.
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>      -- Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, entry on Australia
>         http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A53650
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