Hockley Heights Gazette

Jackson and Mitchell's English to Australian translation

Hello everyone and welcome to the blog of the year!!! This month on the blog we are concentrating on people so we thought we would start with our school mates. In this blog you will experience some high school English slang of which we have found some very interesting and wonderful words in.

To start off with every sentence has to contain 'init' at the end. For instance 'lets go to the field init' no matter how silly it sounds it gets added on everywhere. Also they add 'ain't I' a lot for instance 'I've got my sisters birthday ain't I' even if you have no idea. Another amazing thing about the English high school students are the amount of swear words they have. there's about three times the amount compared to the ones i have heard in Oz. Things like git, twat, prat gimp and mong are the nicest swear words they use, we won't go into the really bad ones.

Another weird thing we have come across is phrases like 'are you taking the mic' and 'that's out of order'. taking the mic like making fun of and that's out of order as in that's unfair. Another fing (that's how they say everyfing) is that they use 'well' instead of hell for example 'that's well good init......thats been going for well long'. Another word used instead of well is 'bare' which is a London word eg. 'thats bare good init' which is a bit silly.

Last we shall present to you what certain people are called. For example girls are commonly referred to as birds, gash, gashdem and to say they are hot you say they are fit or buff. So if we put this all together you get a sentence like this.. ' look at that well buff bird int (isn't) she well fit init' which sounds completely ridiculous but kinda makes sense if you know what they are talking about. For boys they are commonly called bruv, blad and mandem. For example 'look at that hard-nut bruv with all his mandem and gashdem' which means look at that try hard boy with his group of boys and girls.
Now with all that we have taught you we will say a full sentence of this gibberish. 'Look at that wasteman (insult to a boy) thinking he's well hard init bowling (strutting) about with his mandem and gashdem blearing out his bear tunes, he thinks his safe in his endz (neighbourhood, local area), we'll cus (hit, disrespect)him later, let's roll blad.' In conclusion if you came from another country and started in an English high school (us) you'll be pretty confused.

Thankyou for reading volume one of Jackson and Mitchell's English to Australian translation. Join us next time when we cover other topics.

L8erz mandem and gashdem ( byebye everybody)

p.s. From Dad: I take no responsibility for the veracity of the above - it looks like complete gibberish to me and may in fact be complete gibberish! I will say that the last thing I expected in England is that many people do not in fact speak English! I respectfully point out to Eric, a son of this land and now my naturalised Australian father-in-law, that the rules have obviously changed.