for me to express a Goodonya and a Fairdinkum when I read that Australia's unemployment rate is at 5.1% which is much lower that the about the 9.5% level it is here in Yankeeland.
for me to express a Goodonya and a Fairdinkum when I read that Australia's unemployment rate is at 5.1% which is much lower that the about the 9.5% level it is here in Yankeeland.
Ok, here is how that would sound if you wanted to use those expressions in a congratulations: "Fairdimkum, I just noticed the Australian uneployment rate that's fantastic', goodonya." Or: "Are those unemployment rates fairdinkum? Goodonya for weathering the fininacial crisis so well."
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Onya, Roller.
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Here in Australia we seem to take great delight in "brutalising" the English language. I even heard a county person (a lady in fact) use the word "Dinkumest" in the context of e.g. "Roland is the dinkumest person I have ever met". It was used in relation to a particular Queensland Senator and drew a contrast between him and other politicians. Personally, I would never say that of any politician.
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But you would say that of Roland ?Originally Posted by David Graham
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It's a compliment about integrity. David was just giving an example of how it might be used.
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and a fitting example at that.
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So it is actually a good thing then ? Thank you for explaining .
Marg
"Dinkumest" would be a conversion of the noun "dinkum", a shortened form of "fair dinkum", into an adjective. Fair dinkum means truthful, honest, worthy, valuable. Used as a question "fair dinkum?" it would mean something like "are you telling me the truth?", like a person might hear a report and say, "honest?" Or, "seriously?" So to say that about a politician is is to say "this person is the most honest person I have ever met. " David was saying he wouldn't be prepared to say that about a politician.
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Is there an English-Australian dictionary?
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Actually yes there is but there is also an official Australian dictionary that is a fully research endorsed dictionary in every sense of the word that includes all Ausrtalian idioms, it is called the Macquarie Dictionary.
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