Saturday, April 28, 2012

Jesus rode an arse into Jerusalem?

Yes, yes. If you live in Queensland and are under 40 it appears that this is true.

Everyone I have heard talk of the idiotic craze that is Jackass who is a Queenslander in that particular demographic calls it Jackarse.

I cannot convince them that it is Jackass because a jackass is a male ass or donkey.

Now I'd like to suggest that people click on the link and click on the UK and the US pronunciation of the word to clarify.

And while I'm complaining about this I'd like to add a couple more words.
Sachet. It is not pronounced "satch-ette", as Queenslanders seem to say (why don't their teachers correct them?). Listen to this one, too!

Pamphlet.  It is not pronounced "pamp-let", as Queenslanders pronounce it. Listen, learn.

And while I'm at it, so glad I won't be hearing "Arks" instead of asks from the Queensland Premier any more. Anna, you must practice, here you go! Start of with ask and then just add the s on the end.

Here are some more.

13 comments:

bruce said...

My kids were saying 'Jackarse' about 5 years ago when the craze started. I tried calmly pointing out the confusion then, but 'That's what all the other kids say'.

So I gave up.

Why doesn't the ABC cover things like this? History is complex, and the 'devil is in the detail'. But the young want easily digested pap, and ideologues are happy to feed it to them.

cav said...

Never use "A" to end a sentence with.

Thanks for doing away with the double password thing, A?

Minicapt said...

It's spelled "eh?"

Cheers

cav said...

eh? A?

Anonymous said...

Just a few that quickly come to mind:

Defin-ate-ly
Compuder
Impordant
Pacifically
X-er-ay
Fith
Vinigaret
Youse
Rewrit
Satdy

Regards
Sandi

Steve at the Pub said...

Height-th
Date-th
Expresso
Cup-of-chino
burg-you-la
Cassol (Castle)
Pull (pool)
Skul (rhyme with "full" - school)
chewzdi (tuesday)
do-oh (duo - they're starting to drop the "Y" sound)

.... and I could go on all day about the foreign slang overriding our perfectly good slang! (Peter Beattie was a big offender in that regard)

kae said...

SatP, yeah, heighth... arrgh.

But I'm sure Beattie's sorry about it. (Whipped him out of the shit in the polls more times than I can count.)

Hi guys, more, gimme more!

I myself say pooh-well, cos I'm kulcha'd.
(smileyface)

kae said...

And I say lie-berry, too. Particularly to those who work there.

LOL

(never to any students or people I don't know)

Minicapt said...

'momentary' vs 'in a moment'
'presently' instead of 'at present'

Cheers

Carpe Jugulum said...

I hate people who say;

bescetti (spagetti)
nufing (nothing)
birfday (birthday)
firdy free (33)
spes-ee-al (special)
apendectomy (it's a frigging apendicectomy in Oz)

Steve at the Pub said...

Eks-cape

Steve at the Pub said...

Eks-cape

missred said...

enunciate people!! ;)