I am a South Australia by birth 67 years ago and we were taught cursive in school and we called it cursive and still do call it that. Never heard the term "running writing".
Born and bred in Victoria and today was the first time I'd ever heard the tern "running writing." It was always "cursive script" in my day. Mind you, that was the 'best part of a fair while ago.'
It was definitely called running writing when I was a lad. And I think Guy Pearce's answer about fair dinkum was just done for comedic value. How could any Aussie not know, and the meaning depends on context. It can mean honest, authentic, difficult to believe, an expression of frustration, and so on. Fair dinkum Guy! I think you were giving us the raw prawn.
My favourite is “Six axe handles across an acre” when people ask if they look over weight..it’s as subtle as a sledge hammer…nothing says Australia more than Aussie slang..that’s what make us so unique and stand out because of our accent. I have studied linguistics and Aussie slang is my favourite.
Compared to some "Aussie slang" videos you've done a great, and more importantly accurate, job here Mike! I grew up in Adelaide and we always called it "cursive", but South Australians can be a bit odd by my own admission. The "shrimp on the barbie" triggered me, as I spend a lot of time when in the USA explaining that firstly they're not shrimp here, and secondly they're not commonly cooked on the BBQ but usually boiled then served chilled as a nice cold BBQ appetiser on a hot summer day. It never fails to disappoint Americans that it's a marketing myth (along with Fosters). My wife would glare at anyone referring to her as a sheila, even though it's not usually intended to be derogatory. It's generally seen as old-school and perhaps a bit classless. I did once mention to an American when talking about driving that someone was "up my clacker". That got an interesting look. 😂
I appreciate that! I'm surprised after so many years the shrimp on the barbie still gets a mention, but it's commonly thrown at us here. My 9 year olds teacher even asks her if she's having it for dinner! She had no idea what the big deal was 😂 The toilet door signs at the Outback Steakhouses here all have "sheila" on them. I used to hear it a lot in B&S settings, but I'd agree with your wife on that sentiment too.
Well I can confirm I started school in early 70’s in NSW and we called it running writing.. My parents called it cursive, so it must have changed. I do remember the old wooden school desks that still had the old ink well holes on the top right corner, a groove for holding pencil, running across the desk, and you lifted the top of the desk up, to place books in it. Everyone was a Mr or Mrs or Miss & you respected all older people & you always gave up your seat for anyone that was older than you. It was still a time the aged generation (men) wore nice clothes, they would tilt their hats at you, you politely alway acknowledged them & people that hung around the pubs outside and in (it closed at 5 or 6) those were the guys that used all the slang in your video. 😊
i did primary school n the mid to late 60s in s.a. and it was cursive, here is actually the first time i've heard the term 'running writing'. although in all these years the number of times i'v mentioned the style of writing in conversation i could count on one hand.
In my 60s. Never heard it used seriously, sometimes as a joke pretending to be bogans. Same wuth fair dinkum. Only person I've ever heard say it in a real sentence was Kevin Rudd trying desperately to sound like the ' common man'.
@triarb5790 Are you a city person who doesn't go very far from it. I am younger than you, and I have heard it many times. And I grew up in an area with heaps of other ethnicities. The city people tend not to use most old slang since early 2000.
Fair dinkum? = Do you really mean that? Fair dinkum!!!! means "I can hardly believe what you just said!" A sincere person is someone who is fair dinkum.
"How do/did you find..." is not exclusively Australian. At The Beatles press conference on arrival at New York in 1964, one question was "How do you find America?", and the same question was asked in "Hard Days Night". In both cases the answer was "Turn left at Greenland" - Ringo in the first instance, John in the second.
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth Agreed, although it's a pity that the more pedestrian US-derived slang is making constant inroads. Still, as you show, the gloriously inventive home-grown Aussie slang is thriving.
Yeah. This drongo is struggling to pretend he's a true blue. SMH He thinks 'fortnight' originated in Aus. 🤣🤣🤣 He's found his own way to get money for old rope.
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth More likely to be generational - "running writing" for we oldies but called "cursive" for the last four decades in Western Australia and I retired from the Department of Education in 2011.
I am a 72yo Aussie. I still prefer to use "running writing" (Script). However, no matter how well I do it, most people under 40 cannot read it. They prefer to print when writing. Sadly, the joys of using a fountain pen to write with have all but disappeared.
Goon bag derives from the old 2 litre glass flagon, or flagoon, shortened to goon. Wine casks took over from flagons as the cheap wine receptacle of choice in the 70’s. For those who are interested.
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth’foot rot flats’ is kiwi, but I am a West Aussie from the bush and my comment came from my Grandparents down on their farm years ago, so the NZ mob probably pinched it from us. Lol
The shrimp on the Barby, was a gag against the USA they call a small prawn a shrimp and that size a prawn, so we call it a shrimp making them think that to us it is a little prawn.
In the 60s writing a word in a continuous line without taking your pen off the paper was called cursive. Now children are taught to write differently which to be a combination of cursive and printing, hence the change of the word for writing.
It's a Melbourne thing, but "He's in more sh!t than a Werribee duck" is a good one. Werribee being where the old open air sewage treatment plant was located.
@@thisnametaken3735 Well, when you finish school you should try to get out more. 🤔 Meet some people who are not your own family. 😉😊 I've spent my life travelling to every corner of this great southern land - and several other countries. I've worked in more 'professions' than I care to remember. I've associated with all 'levels of society', from ditch diggers to High Court judges. BTW - as a qualified lingiist I've studied and written papers on Aussie slang. 😉😊
@@trueaussie9230 Big noting yourself to cover a hole in your own knowledge is a pretty insecure, triggered thing to do. Do you remember the paint ad with Eddie the Expert and the dog Cyclone. Grow TFU Eddie.
Tasmanian here, and it was always called Cord Cursive never running writing until very recently. Our teacher was strict and we had to practive the patterns everyday to music to get the rhythm right with the teacher tapping on the chalk board with her cane. I just looked it up ,as I thought it was called Cord Cursive everywhere, but I found this from an article, "In 1959, the Australian Women's Weekly reported Tasmanian state schools were trialling an American handwriting style called Cord Cursive"
"Servo" - is a slang term for a gas station or service station. "Fanging" - to desire something greatly. e.g. I am fanging for a ciggie (cigarette). "Bogan" - someone who is not very sophisticated, and in the lower socio-economic crowd. "Ambo" - Ambulance driver. "Aggro" - to get aggressive/upset. "Piss-weak" - 1. extremely weak (often refers to character or physical strength) e.g. that was a piss-weak beer; 2. mean; despicable; shabby: piss weak thing to do. "Woop woop" - middle of nowhere. e.g. "He lives out in the back of Woop woop." There are always slang words that have disappeared from common use, such as the rhyming slang: "Rubbity dub" (Pub), "Just going down to the Rubbity dub to buy some piss (beer)."
Adding to that, 'having a perv'. Doesn't necessarily pertain to being an actual pervert, though it can. Having a perv, or taking a perv can simply mean 'I took a look at something'. Person #1: "My car is having issues in the motor bit." Person #2: "Want me to take a perv?"
Dead horse = tomato sauce About as useful as a hip pocket in a singlet = waste of time Don’t know if you trod or a horse rolled = you have really big feet.
Never heard of "running writing", I spent all of my school days in Adelaide where I grew up, we always called it "Cursive". I call it cursive still. I'm betting you grew up in Sydney, that sounds like a Sydney expression to me. Wherever you grew up, take it from me, the term "running writing" is not used in the rest of the country.
Box wine is an Australian invention. Thomas Angove and Charles Malpas are the two individuals credited. "Goon", I believe, comes from "Goonawarra", a vineyard that sold quite a lot of these Boxes, especially to students and financially challenged.
Hi Love your explanations of our language, The only one is Running Writing, I often argued with teachers at my kids school that dumbing down the description was stupid as it doesn't run anywhere. This in my school days was either writing or printing. (1960's) You were taught either Palace Script or Victorian Cursive, both beautiful styles. Now the kids don't know how to do either and it isn't really a subject.
Thanks so much for watching! It’s interesting to read everyone’s comments on cursive. Maybe it was a NSW thing or a thing of the 70’s/80’s? Either way I feel it’s a lost art in some ways.
Whenever a foreigner asks what an Aussie calls anything I always say 'a bajangawang' just to see how long it takes them to find out I'm winding them up.😂
I agree that 99/100 fail miserably, but there've been a couple of good ones. Liev Schreiber in Mental was pretty good. Kate Winslet in Holy Smoke was perfect. I can think of a hundred more that were lazy and appalling. Pacific Rim for instance,
Unlike Mickey D’s in the US and Mackey‘s in the UK, which are specifically nicknames for the McDonald’s restaurant, Maccas is not specifically for McDonalds. The nickname Macca is given to anybody whose name starts with Mac or Mc and their property or place is Macca’s. Like “Hey Macca, come here” or “Are you going over to Macca’s place later for some beers?”
We use both cursive and running writing. When you’re a kid it’s called running writing so you get the idea it runs together. I teach porimary and I don’t know ant schools that teach it now but the kids ask me to teach them running writing.
Dutch= bosbrand which is bos = bush, brand= fire 1970's macdonalds was just mac or the mac in Holland. Sinds mac CAFE is in the Netherlands macca is filtering into dutch now.
Haven’t heard of Darcy before. Just googled it: Dardy An Australian Aboriginal English word from South-western Western Australia that means "cool" or "really good".
A couple more, for no particular reason. Drongo. Noun. Incompetent, second best. (From a racehorse in the 1920s that never won a race, but often finished second.) Boofhead, noun and adjective. Dim-witted, or oversized head. Furphy/Furphies. Noun. A tall tale, sketchy story, outright lie. Used in conversation. "That drongo is telling you furphies about what he thinks he knows. What a boofhead."
" We're not here to fuck spiders"...
Classic one. Margot Robbie came out with an explanation of that on British TV a few years back 🤣
I am a South Australia by birth 67 years ago and we were taught cursive in school and we called it cursive and still do call it that. Never heard the term "running writing".
Appreciate the comment and thanks for watching!
Born and bred in Victoria and today was the first time I'd ever heard the tern "running writing." It was always "cursive script" in my day. Mind you, that was the 'best part of a fair while ago.'
@@Golddusteyes funny how the States differed in this term!
“On ya “
So many uses for that one too!
How about 'no wukkas'? Tthat started life as 'no f***'n worries' then 'no wuk'n furries.' then shortened to 'no wukkas.'
Aussie language at its finest there, thanks for watching!
“No wukkas, no probs “👍🇦🇺
No wuks mate
It was definitely called running writing when I was a lad.
And I think Guy Pearce's answer about fair dinkum was just done for comedic value. How could any Aussie not know, and the meaning depends on context. It can mean honest, authentic, difficult to believe, an expression of frustration, and so on. Fair dinkum Guy! I think you were giving us the raw prawn.
Agreed, I'm thinking he was playing it up somehow too 😂
Map of Tassie you’d have to actually show em a map for anyone other than an Aussie to get it
Have to keep some things to ourselves 😂. Thanks for watching!
I cringe when a foreigner tries to say "G'day mate".
I’m with you on that one!
I cringe when they try Aussie slang period 😩
@@GeorgeMutton-lm1hrI cringe when people use the term period to refer to a cessation of time when it’s a duration of time. Bloody American
They always look soooo pleased that they got 'the words' right. SMH
Trouble is that foreigners, especially Yanks, try to pronounce the letters and syllables individually.
My favourite is “Six axe handles across an acre” when people ask if they look over weight..it’s as subtle as a sledge hammer…nothing says Australia more than Aussie slang..that’s what make us so unique and stand out because of our accent. I have studied linguistics and Aussie slang is my favourite.
Love it, appreciate the comment!
Compared to some "Aussie slang" videos you've done a great, and more importantly accurate, job here Mike! I grew up in Adelaide and we always called it "cursive", but South Australians can be a bit odd by my own admission. The "shrimp on the barbie" triggered me, as I spend a lot of time when in the USA explaining that firstly they're not shrimp here, and secondly they're not commonly cooked on the BBQ but usually boiled then served chilled as a nice cold BBQ appetiser on a hot summer day. It never fails to disappoint Americans that it's a marketing myth (along with Fosters). My wife would glare at anyone referring to her as a sheila, even though it's not usually intended to be derogatory. It's generally seen as old-school and perhaps a bit classless.
I did once mention to an American when talking about driving that someone was "up my clacker". That got an interesting look. 😂
I appreciate that!
I'm surprised after so many years the shrimp on the barbie still gets a mention, but it's commonly thrown at us here. My 9 year olds teacher even asks her if she's having it for dinner! She had no idea what the big deal was 😂
The toilet door signs at the Outback Steakhouses here all have "sheila" on them. I used to hear it a lot in B&S settings, but I'd agree with your wife on that sentiment too.
Yes, cursive in South Australia, happy to be odd 😊
In my experience " Sheila " for a woman is pretty rare.
I may have hung round the sale yards or B&S scene a little too much growing up 😂. Thanks for watching!
It was common when I was young, circa 1970's, but I wouldn't call a woman a 'sheila' nowadays. 🇦🇺😀👍
A carton of beer is not usual where I'm from - it's a slab
"Sheila" is one of the Aussie colloquialisms that is disappearing into obscurity.
@@margieguild519WA here. Carton
growing up in the 60s and 70s we were taught running writing but I believe they call it cursive today
Thanks for watching!
I went to primary school in 60's Adelaide. We only ever called it cursive.
In the day, it was called cord cursive
The example of running writing shown looks to me like it's Cyrillic, possibly Ukrainian as there's an "i" there which Russian doesn't have.
@@brucefox2796 I grew up in NSW, never heard the term cursive until my children went to school
I'm in the UK and a lot of these phrases are common here.
We call Running Writing 'Handwriting'.
I’m sure we pinched quite a few of them from the UK. Thanks for watching!
Well I can confirm I started school in early 70’s in NSW and we called it running writing.. My parents called it cursive, so it must have changed. I do remember the old wooden school desks that still had the old ink well holes on the top right corner, a groove for holding pencil, running across the desk, and you lifted the top of the desk up, to place books in it. Everyone was a Mr or Mrs or Miss & you respected all older people & you always gave up your seat for anyone that was older than you. It was still a time the aged generation (men) wore nice clothes, they would tilt their hats at you, you politely alway acknowledged them & people that hung around the pubs outside and in (it closed at 5 or 6) those were the guys that used all the slang in your video. 😊
i did primary school n the mid to late 60s in s.a. and it was cursive,
here is actually the first time i've heard the term 'running writing'.
although in all these years the number of times i'v mentioned the
style of writing in conversation i could count on one hand.
😂
Vic here. When I grew up we called it cursive script.
Sydney here. Running writing for us.
Thanks for watching! I remember it also being called modified cursive at one point too.
In Perth WA, it was called running writing
Thanks for the comment!
Another one I get picked up on by foreigners is 'old mate'
Yes! Old mate had better pull his head in!
Thanks for watching 😀
a stones throw, its cactus, everything is down the road and around the corner
Making me homesick with those ones! Thanks for watching!
Absolutely still used……👍🏻🇦🇺
The word sheila is outdated. This is usually only used by people who haven't lived in Australia for a while.
Thanks for watching!
It's not completely true. It is still used, just not the younger generation.
I guess it depends on where you live. I'm in a small town, and it's still commly used here.
In my 60s. Never heard it used seriously, sometimes as a joke pretending to be bogans. Same wuth fair dinkum. Only person I've ever heard say it in a real sentence was Kevin Rudd trying desperately to sound like the ' common man'.
@triarb5790 Are you a city person who doesn't go very far from it. I am younger than you, and I have heard it many times. And I grew up in an area with heaps of other ethnicities. The city people tend not to use most old slang since early 2000.
Kangaroos in the top paddock, you beauty, & good on ya! Top video mate!👍PS /Mickey Mouse Aussie vs the American meaning.
Thanks mate!
l am a 68 y/o Aussie and l have NEVER heard the term 'Running writing' before. Never!
Thanks for watching!
Bugger.
Another strong contender for when things go tits up.
One of my everyday words 😊
What about “Boofhead”?
@@AnnFreund-s3j
English
Boofhead was a comic strip in the 1940s to 60s. He was not clever. He was a boofhead much like the dropkick who made this video.
Reminds me of Bob Hatfield in A Country Practice 😊
Bewdy mate !!!!!
Classic one there!
Fair dinkum? = Do you really mean that? Fair dinkum!!!! means "I can hardly believe what you just said!" A sincere person is someone who is fair dinkum.
That’s a fair dinkum comment there mate, cheers!
37 years in Australia. Kevin Rudd is the only person I've ever heard use it and it was always cringey when he tried to sound like 'one of us'.
Yanks are simply folk, Fortnight would only confuse them.😂
😂
There isn't much that wouldn't. Seppos are the stupidest collection of people on the planet.
"How do/did you find..." is not exclusively Australian. At The Beatles press conference on arrival at New York in 1964, one question was "How do you find America?", and the same question was asked in "Hard Days Night". In both cases the answer was "Turn left at Greenland" - Ringo in the first instance, John in the second.
Great history there. I’d say much of what we as Aussies come out with has its origins back in England.
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth Agreed, although it's a pity that the more pedestrian US-derived slang is making constant inroads. Still, as you show, the gloriously inventive home-grown Aussie slang is thriving.
Yeah.
This drongo is struggling to pretend he's a true blue. SMH
He thinks 'fortnight' originated in Aus. 🤣🤣🤣
He's found his own way to get money for old rope.
Wine in casks is also known as 'Chateau cardboard'.
The goon for the upper class 😂
just watch out for the joe blakes in summer and the noahs arks when you go swimming
Good ol rhyming slang. Might have to change your reg grundies if you see either of those!
ya glossin over a few things mate 😂
😂
South Aussie here, we always called it "cursive"
Sydney here. Running writing for us.
Could be a state thing? Thanks for watching!
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth More likely to be generational - "running writing" for we oldies but called "cursive" for the last four decades in Western Australia and I retired from the Department of Education in 2011.
Victorian here, but private school - we called it cursive as well. Don't know about the government system.
@@heatherharvey3129Definitely generational. Nothing to do with privaye/government.
I doubt that anyone uses "sheila" nowadays, except maybe as a joke or in the bush.
Fairly common where I’m from, regional NSW. Maybe not so in the heart of Melbourne anymore.
This expression has strong Irish commectio9ns
I am a 72yo Aussie. I still prefer to use "running writing" (Script). However, no matter how well I do it, most people under 40 cannot read it. They prefer to print when writing.
Sadly, the joys of using a fountain pen to write with have all but disappeared.
Thanks for commenting. I use a computer so much now days my handwriting has really deteriorated to below Dr standards.
Goon bag derives from the old 2 litre glass flagon, or flagoon, shortened to goon. Wine casks took over from flagons as the cheap wine receptacle of choice in the 70’s. For those who are interested.
Learnt something new! Thanks for sharing!
@@bruiser6479
Hahahahahhh.
If you say so. 😉😊🤣🤣🤣
@@trueaussie9230 Bloke's 100% right..
A $1:50 flagon of red/white plonk was called a flagoon, then goon.
When pigbags took over, the name stuck.
Bruisers spot on!
Too right mate!
Running writing .. at least it was called that when I was at school 🖊️
Yep, that’s what I grew up with
My favourite is :
“Rattle your dags”.
or to get a move along.
I remember that one from Footrot Flats!
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth’foot rot flats’ is kiwi, but I am a West Aussie from the bush and my comment came from my Grandparents down on their farm years ago, so the NZ mob probably pinched it from us. Lol
The shrimp on the Barby, was a gag against the USA they call a small prawn a shrimp and that size a prawn, so we call it a shrimp making them think that to us it is a little prawn.
Thanks for watching!
In the 60s writing a word in a continuous line without taking your pen off the paper was called cursive. Now children are taught to write differently which to be a combination of cursive and printing, hence the change of the word for writing.
Thanks for the comment!
When I was learning "running writing" in grade 3 in 1966 it was called "cord cursive"
Cord cursive? Interesting. I remember them calling it modified cursive as well in the 70s/80s
I learnt running writing in NZ in the 60's
Thanks for sharing!
Always been running writing to me but dont know if i picked that up in africa, new zealand or Australia
Most of those are in common use in NZ too.
We share many similarities. Language, sport, pavlova 😊
@@FromDownUndertoDownSouth It is important to have trivial things to squabble about.
It's a Melbourne thing, but "He's in more sh!t than a Werribee duck" is a good one. Werribee being where the old open air sewage treatment plant was located.
@@thisnametaken3735
That's more of a 'your thing' than a Melb thing.
I've lived in Melb all of my 70+ years - NEVER heard it. 😉😊
@trueaussie9230 Sheltered life, maybe?
@@thisnametaken3735
Well, when you finish school you should try to get out more. 🤔
Meet some people who are not your own family. 😉😊
I've spent my life travelling to every corner of this great southern land - and several other countries.
I've worked in more 'professions' than I care to remember.
I've associated with all 'levels of society', from ditch diggers to High Court judges.
BTW - as a qualified lingiist I've studied and written papers on Aussie slang. 😉😊
@@trueaussie9230 Big noting yourself to cover a hole in your own knowledge is a pretty insecure, triggered thing to do. Do you remember the paint ad with Eddie the Expert and the dog Cyclone. Grow TFU Eddie.
That’s the kind of expression that really visualizes the place 😂 Thanks for watching!
Tasmanian here, and it was always called Cord Cursive never running writing until very recently. Our teacher was strict and we had to practive the patterns everyday to music to get the rhythm right with the teacher tapping on the chalk board with her cane. I just looked it up ,as I thought it was called Cord Cursive everywhere, but I found this from an article,
"In 1959, the Australian Women's Weekly reported Tasmanian state schools were trialling an American handwriting style called Cord Cursive"
Sydney here. Running writing for us.
How interesting! There is almost a musical rhythm to it, I can see how that could be beneficial. Thanks for watching!
Tasmanian here, I remember it being cord cursive. That was in the 1960’s
This is a good description of us.
😊
Thanks for the comment!
"Servo" - is a slang term for a gas station or service station.
"Fanging" - to desire something greatly. e.g. I am fanging for a ciggie (cigarette).
"Bogan" - someone who is not very sophisticated, and in the lower socio-economic crowd.
"Ambo" - Ambulance driver.
"Aggro" - to get aggressive/upset.
"Piss-weak" - 1. extremely weak (often refers to character or physical strength) e.g. that was a piss-weak beer; 2. mean; despicable; shabby: piss weak thing to do.
"Woop woop" - middle of nowhere. e.g. "He lives out in the back of Woop woop."
There are always slang words that have disappeared from common use, such as the rhyming slang: "Rubbity dub" (Pub), "Just going down to the Rubbity dub to buy some piss (beer)."
Great list mate, thanks for sharing.
Fang a uie
We tend to say having an Esmay now or just having a sticky instead of a sticky beak
Good ol’ Esmae Watson! Known a few of those off we the years 😂
We called a Dorrie as in Dorrie Evan’s from No 96…. No that’s aging me!
Adding to that, 'having a perv'.
Doesn't necessarily pertain to being an actual pervert, though it can.
Having a perv, or taking a perv can simply mean 'I took a look at something'.
Person #1: "My car is having issues in the motor bit."
Person #2: "Want me to take a perv?"
Dead horse = tomato sauce
About as useful as a hip pocket in a singlet = waste of time
Don’t know if you trod or a horse rolled = you have really big feet.
Gotta have dead horse on your dogs eye!
Never heard of "running writing", I spent all of my school days in Adelaide where I grew up, we always called it "Cursive". I call it cursive still. I'm betting you grew up in Sydney, that sounds like a Sydney expression to me. Wherever you grew up, take it from me, the term "running writing" is not used in the rest of the country.
NSW but regional, not the big smoke. Looks like it might be a NSW thing based on the comments. Thanks for watching!
Bull dust! I grew up here in Western Australia and we called it running writing. We also knew it as cursive but running writing was commonly used.
Running writing was always used in Qld . Im 67 now, thats what we always called it.
gotta love a good goon bag lol
Ha! Cheap and fun at the same time 😂
Shame on you Guy Pearce for not knowing what Fair Dinkum means...
Like WTF?????
😂
but he did know and tried to explain it. Difficult when it has opposing meanings, depending on context and you're trying to explain it to an american
I don't think he was being fair dinkum.😄
Box wine is an Australian invention. Thomas Angove and Charles Malpas are the two individuals credited. "Goon", I believe, comes from "Goonawarra", a vineyard that sold quite a lot of these Boxes, especially to students and financially challenged.
Interesting. There is a lot of history with the Angove family including starting the St Agnes brandy distillery in SA.
Hi Love your explanations of our language, The only one is Running Writing, I often argued with teachers at my kids school that dumbing down the description was stupid as it doesn't run anywhere. This in my school days was either writing or printing. (1960's) You were taught either Palace Script or Victorian Cursive, both beautiful styles. Now the kids don't know how to do either and it isn't really a subject.
Thanks so much for watching!
It’s interesting to read everyone’s comments on cursive. Maybe it was a NSW thing or a thing of the 70’s/80’s?
Either way I feel it’s a lost art in some ways.
Onya mate.
Onya!
This is normal language to me , I grew up with it. 😂
Same!
Whenever a foreigner asks what an Aussie calls anything I always say 'a bajangawang' just to see how long it takes them to find out I'm winding them up.😂
😂
I’m Aussie and it was called joined up writing or cursive when I was growing up.
Joined up writing is not something I’d heard of until the comments in this video. Interesting how we all had differant terms for the same thing!
Yeah, I remember in primary school we got our Joiners Licence and Pen Licence.
I only heard it called Cursive on the Simpsons.
Grew up in Adelaide, always called cursive.
Maybe it’s a NSW thing? Thanks for watching!
KNOATH it's used daily by oh so many😅😊
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KNOATH! Or the slightly longer version, but I'd better not go there...
I was just funkin that
Nobody but an Australian can say G,day and Nobody can do an Australian accent😊
Very cringe when someone tries!
I agree that 99/100 fail miserably, but there've been a couple of good ones. Liev Schreiber in Mental was pretty good. Kate Winslet in Holy Smoke was perfect. I can think of a hundred more that were lazy and appalling. Pacific Rim for instance,
Ken Oath
Good bloke that 😂
Watching movies lately, I've heard them say dickhead. Its weird hearing an American say that.
Hearing kiwis say it is also a little differant 😊
@FromDownUndertoDownSouth wouldn't it be duckhead in a kiwi accent ?
Unlike Mickey D’s in the US and Mackey‘s in the UK, which are specifically nicknames for the McDonald’s restaurant, Maccas is not specifically for McDonalds.
The nickname Macca is given to anybody whose name starts with Mac or Mc and their property or place is Macca’s.
Like “Hey Macca, come here” or “Are you going over to Macca’s place later for some beers?”
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Of course we call it Maccas, where else are you going to go for a MacAttack
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How about all the different ways "mate" can be used
For sure! Cheers mate 😊
.... or said....like the drawn out "Maaaaate"
We use both cursive and running writing. When you’re a kid it’s called running writing so you get the idea it runs together. I teach porimary and I don’t know ant schools that teach it now but the kids ask me to teach them running writing.
I’m glad someone knows what I was talking about! Thanks for watching!
Sugar honey ice tea for when trying not to teach your child to swear.
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My mum and her parents spoke slang all the time until the movie there a weird mob
I just read the plot for the movie, sounds interesting! Thanks for watching!
go 4 it....What's up ...guz on ya mate
Love it, cheer for that!
Hate when Americans call us ossies with a soft S. No mate we are Aussies!
And don’t forget Emu
@Katrinagaming-en1os oh yes, emoo
Like nails on a blackboard!
Never heard “running writing”.
Maybe it’s a regional NSW thing.
You would have to be particularly thick to not be able to work out that a car park is where the cars are parked.
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What about "bonza"?
Apparently it’s a word that originated from a game of marbles, who knew?!
"Oo-roo", shortened from Hoo-roo, meaning goodbye.
Love it, haven’t heard that for a while. Cheers!
I still sign off my letters with Oo-roo cobber/mate/sheila.
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You may remember that, Don Burke from Burke’s Backyard always used to sign off that way.
Thank you for the video. 👍🏻🇦🇺
Larrikin
Classic
"Chook"; add it to your next video.
I like it. Couple of meanings with that one too, resourceful people aren’t we 😂
Here is a Tasmanian song about Bogans: th-cam.com/video/eNvkCVvhIvg/w-d-xo.html
It is a good example of what a bogan is.
I saw that one the other day, so many words that the rest of the world wouldn't know! 😂
Onya sconya!
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Choc a block
Cheers!
"Why don't you give ya mouth a go?!"
= You're talking out of your arse. Talking shit.
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Never heard it called running writing, maybe it depends which state you're from (I'm from Victoria)
I’m thinking it was a NSW thing? Thanks for watching!
Depends how old you are. If you’re born after 1980 that explains it 😂
Dutch= bosbrand which is bos = bush, brand= fire
1970's macdonalds was just mac or the mac in Holland. Sinds mac CAFE is in the Netherlands macca is filtering into dutch now.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Running writing? Never ever heard it called that ever. It was always cursive. I’m from South Australia maybe that’s the difference?
Could be? I’m from NSW, maybe it was a thing just there?
Aussies don't give a rat's bum what anyone thinks about our sayings , especially American's.
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As a born and bred Aussie I’ve never heard it called running writing, always cursive
I grew up in Sydney and it was always referred to as running writing
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I'm from SA. This is the first time in my 63 years that I've heard it called running writing. It just sounds bogan to me.
Pull the other one ,it's got bells on it , whaddya doin thesarvo, git on ya bike , bugga off,
Classic Aussie sayings there!
Victorian here. The writing was called cursive when I was a young 'un at school.
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Cursive where I grew up in Victoria, never heard it called running writing.
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West oz running writing
All over the road like an unregistered dog 🐕
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Dardy for being something good.
Not sure uf that's just a Western Australian thing though...
Can’t say I’ve heard of that one!
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It's just WA - if that.
You have one of the best Aussie slang explanations I have seen, usually there are things I’ve never heard during my 70+ years in Australia.
Haven’t heard of Darcy before. Just googled it:
Dardy
An Australian Aboriginal English word from South-western Western Australia that means "cool" or "really good".
Never heard that one and I’m a sandgroper
Like cu in the nt
Good marketing I guess? 😂
@@panicfarm9874 that was brilliant play on words and council in Darwin tried to ban it from sales at the Matkets which saw a explosion in sales
@@IanBrasher-uq4te I’ve actually seen it abroad many times from Singapore to Germany, it’s great the council failed in their embargo
A couple more, for no particular reason.
Drongo. Noun. Incompetent, second best. (From a racehorse in the 1920s that never won a race, but often finished second.)
Boofhead, noun and adjective. Dim-witted, or oversized head.
Furphy/Furphies. Noun. A tall tale, sketchy story, outright lie.
Used in conversation. "That drongo is telling you furphies about what he thinks he knows. What a boofhead."
Furphies! Haven’t heard that one in a while!
@FromDownUndertoDownSouth I probably associate with more dubious people.
Never heard cursive called running writing anywhere in Australia.
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We called it running writing when I was learning it in Victoria in the 1950s.
I have always called it that. I'm 60. I think cursive is what younger people call it.
We're not here to fuck spiders. In other words we aren't here to waste time
I'm surprised that one didn't come from a movie. Thanks for watching!