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Message board > Happy Australia Day
Happy Australia Day
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cheezels
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Awesome!!!!!! Have a great day mate :-)
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26 Jan 2009
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meuge
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Happy Day!!!!
Enjoy it and celebrate it!!! 
Hugs!! 
M. Eugenia |
26 Jan 2009
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spring
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Hi All,
I wish you lots of love... Happy Australia day Mate:)))
In all the gifs I have found it says "mate"
Is it smth special or has a meaning???
I wonder why isn�t it a friend or fellow or guy but mate:))))
Is it a silly question???  |
26 Jan 2009
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alien boy
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As a couple of my mates have said, there�s no such thing as a silly question, just a silly answer.
�Mate� means friend. It�s one of the words traditionally associated with Australia. There have even been comedy skits done where a whole conversation can be made up of that one word said with different stresses to convey different meanings.
You may find a few other similar terms like �me old china� (from Cockney rhyming slang), �cobber�, �digger� & I�m sure a lot of others too!
So thank you, Mate!
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26 Jan 2009
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cheezels
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I just looked on youtube for something funny on how to be Australian or Australian slang.... unfortunately... they were not suitable to post a link here... hehe.... so you can look various ones up at your own risk! :-)
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26 Jan 2009
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alien boy
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Sounds like typical Aussie slang & sense of humour - that�s why I�ve refrained from making a worksheet about it for my junior high school students....
& from what I remember, Kiwi�s are pretty similar too!
Thanks digger!
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26 Jan 2009
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Damielle
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Happy day Alien_boy and all the Australians!!!
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26 Jan 2009
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dennismychina
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Yea Bryce I hope you had a good day and were able to celebrate with a couple of fellow Ausies.
I�m afraid Ricky Ponting and his lads won�t be doing to much celebrating this evening though. Chuckle chuckle chuckle |
26 Jan 2009
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alien boy
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At least there�s still The Ashes to go!!!!
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26 Jan 2009
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