# Can anyone teach me to speak Strine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781 "2014-05-20T00:15:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/21 "2014-05-21T08:53:56Z")
You will get to shout me at long last (after putting up with your jokes on FB 🙂 ) 375 mls is also a normal can- only sheilas drink small bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/22 "2014-05-21T09:16:08Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Only if I can join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wallamaloo. Oh yeah, thats moi alma mater. I was in charge of the sheep dip. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/23 "2014-05-21T11:16:25Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > OK. You’ll need to understand some basic terms, forget the pronunciations for the time being. > > You will drink beer. Good beer. You will also visit a pub. A pub is a place that decants beer. > > Depending upon where you are going to be living, beer comes in different types of glass. In NSW you will ask for a _schooner_. If you come to Victoria, the bartender will laugh at you if you ask for a schooner. In Vic you ask for a _pot_. > > If you are buying bottled beer, it comes in two sizes: 700ml is a longneck, 375 ml is a stubbie. It is perfectly couth to drink beer straight of a stubbie, but if you try the same with a longneck, people will assume you’re a hopeless alcoholic. Do not ever try to hide your beer in a paper bag…the assumption noted above applies. > > Do not drink Fosters beer. Only Americans drink that shit. Same with light beer…why bother drinking something that is not going to get you drunk? > > Your first purchase here should be an ESKY. It is a lightweight, portable box that keeps beer cold. > > 😃 As others have noted, you can now buy a schooner in Melbourne, but it’s a different size to a Sydney schooner and I’m not sure what they use in Adelaide - they’re all messed up they consider West End to be Beer. Now you have to be prepared to walk into a country pub in NSW and ask for a pony. If you have your mum with you get her a pony shandy. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/24 "2014-05-21T17:05:49Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > As others have noted, you can now buy a schooner in Melbourne, but it’s a different size to a Sydney schooner and I’m not sure what they use in Adelaide - they’re all messed up they consider West End to be Beer. Not that I saw. I actually was sad enough to check. 425ml, same as NSW. > [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Now you have to be prepared to walk into a country pub in NSW and ask for a pony. If you have your mum with you get her a pony shandy. Now, this is a weird thing. I’ve actually done as you described and ordered a pony or a “seven” for my mum. In the past this was no worries, but in recent years I’ve found a lot of NSW pubs no longer carry the glasses. Smallest is a middy. Similarly, twenty years ago, the middy was what was in the hand of about half the drinkers in a pub, but now it seems to be well on the decline. Everybody seems to be drinking schooners. I’ve seen similar in Victoria, where the seven ounce used to be the thing, and drinking a pot was a bit blokey, but now I never see the seven down there, and pots themselves are starting to give way to schooners (but more usually, pints). Note to Brits reading this: a schooner is simply a 3/4 pint. IMHO, it is a bloody sensible measure. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/25 "2014-05-21T18:00:08Z")
Shoot for relocating to Perth. There’s a band out of there that I’d love to see live sometime, Boom! Bap! Pow!: ["Suit" and "My World" live: Boom! Bap! Pow! at TEDxPerth - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiJ400Smz4w) ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/26 "2014-05-21T18:58:59Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Only if I can join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wallamaloo. [Woolloomooloo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolloomooloo). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/27 "2014-05-21T20:25:22Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > They were trying to break it to you gently, **VunderBob** , but it’s not really a voluntary opportunity. > > I mean, you do realize that Australia is a penal colony, right? > > (And what the heck did you do, anyway?!?) So, how are the travel plans coming along, Vunderbob? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/28 "2014-05-22T01:04:29Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > So, how are the travel plans coming along, Vunderbob? Started packing. A Nigerian prince will be delivering our visas any day now. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/29 "2014-05-22T13:02:32Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > As others have noted, you can now buy a schooner in Melbourne, . Yes, I buy schooners in Melbourne. Don’t forget to answer questions with, “Yeah, no”. As in, “Did your team win on Saturday?” “Yeah, no, they got thrashed”. Most words are pronounced like baby talk, i.e. Brissie=Brisbane, Tassie=Tasmania, Firey=Fireman, Tinnie= can of beer, Barbie= BBQ, sunnies= sun glasses, Footy= Football, Cossie=bathing costume (bathers). ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/30 "2014-05-22T13:42:14Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_York](#): > > Yes, I buy schooners in Melbourne. Don’t forget to answer questions with, “Yeah, no”. As in, “Did your team win on Saturday?” “Yeah, no, they got thrashed”. Hang about cobber, that’s a Kiwismism…dang summut like that. We have a national tv campaign explaining it to the POMS and Aussies. Yeah Nah. That is Kiwi. [http://www.sayyeahnah.org.nz/](http://www.sayyeahnah.org.nz/) ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/31 "2014-05-22T13:51:19Z")
> [@Ken001](#): > > Hang about cobber, that’s a Kiwismism…dang summut like that. We have a national tv campaign explaining it to the POMS and Aussies. > > Yeah Nah. That is Kiwi. > > [http://www.sayyeahnah.org.nz/](http://www.sayyeahnah.org.nz/) It’s Aussie too. 90% of Aussie rules players say it when asked about the game on TV. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/32 "2014-05-22T14:20:10Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_York](#): > > It’s Aussie too. 90% of Aussie rules players say it when asked about the game on TV. Aussie Rules players are positively articulate, nay poetic or even silver-tongued, when compared with League players. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/33 "2014-05-22T14:53:01Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Aussie Rules players are positively articulate, nay poetic or even silver-tongued, when compared with League players. True. I find both codes equally tiresome, but the AFL players do at least seem to have necks and opposable thumbs. Mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/34 "2014-05-23T01:27:56Z")
League players have thumbs, but they’re mostly up their opponent’s arses. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/35 "2014-05-23T08:29:26Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > League players have thumbs, but they’re mostly up their opponent’s arses. Hopoate used an index finger, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/36 "2014-05-23T08:39:25Z")
The building at 175 Eagle St Brisbane is (presumably much to the chagrin of its owners) known pretty much universally amongst Brisbane City folk as the “Hopoate Building”. I [will leave it to you to work out why](https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-27.465682,153.03049,3a,75y,141.77h,82.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYKsNFbhxEe0_imZTs2qxZg!2e0)… ps My office window is visible in this streetview. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/37 "2014-05-23T09:02:01Z")
“root” means “f\*\*\*” - not sure if that is really outdated though ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/38 "2014-05-23T09:16:22Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > The building at 175 Eagle St Brisbane is (presumably much to the chagrin of its owners) known pretty much universally amongst Brisbane City folk as the “Hopoate Building”. I [will leave it to you to work out why](https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-27.465682,153.03049,3a,75y,141.77h,82.67t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYKsNFbhxEe0_imZTs2qxZg!2e0)… > > ps My office window is visible in this streetview. I do like an apt nickname. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781/39 "2014-05-25T03:15:06Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > “root” means “f\*\*\*” - not sure if that is really outdated though I think it’s in decline a bit, but I wouldn’t say it’s outdated just yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-teach-me-to-speak-strine/688781.md?page=1)