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Book Synopsis The Great Australian Book of Insults by : Bill Wannan
Download or read book The Great Australian Book of Insults written by Bill Wannan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Aussie Insults by : Bill Wannan
Download or read book Great Aussie Insults written by Bill Wannan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973, under the title of 'With Malice Aforethought', this edition has been expanded and updated. Presents general insults hurled at various sections of society including politicians, the clergy, unionists and foreign migrants, as well as invective against particular people and places. Includes a chapter of epitaphs and eulogies, and a section on sport. Includes an index.The editor has published over 60 books, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1991 for his services to literature, particularly folklore.
Book Synopsis Great Aussie Insults by : Bill Wannan
Download or read book Great Aussie Insults written by Bill Wannan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Aussie Quotes by : Bill Wannan
Download or read book Great Aussie Quotes written by Bill Wannan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this collection of quotations from notable Australians is an updated and expanded version of 'Dictionary of Humorous Australian Quotations and Anecdotes'. Includes quotes from politicians, writers, humorists, journalists, and trade unionists, on a wide range of subjects such as abortion law reform, fishing, women, men and dogs. Includes an index. The author has published many books on Australian literature and humour, and was made a Member of the Order of Australian in 1991.
Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Australian Slang by : Lenie Johansen
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Australian Slang written by Lenie Johansen and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.
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Download or read book Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888-1988 written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Little Book of Aussie Insults by : Robert Treborlang
Download or read book The Little Book of Aussie Insults written by Robert Treborlang and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-03 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australian Books in Print 1998 by : Bowker
Download or read book Australian Books in Print 1998 written by Bowker and published by Bowker-Saur. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...excellent coverage...essential to worldwide bibliographic coverage."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. This comprehensive reference provides current finding & ordering information on more than 75,000 in-print books published in or about Australia, or written by Australian authors, organized by title, author, & keyword. You'll also find brief profiles of more than 7,000 publishers & distributors whose titles are represented, as well as information on trade associations, local agents of overseas publishers, literary awards, & more. From D.W. Thorpe.
Download or read book Australian Slang written by David Tuffley and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aussie Slang is a richly-textured, often ribald world of understatement and laconic humour. This guide aims to do three things; (a) to help the traveller decipher what they hear around them in everyday Australian life, (b) give the causal reader some insight into informal Australian culture, and (c) make a record of some old Australian expressions that are slipping into disuse now that English has become a global language. Readers will recognize both British and American terms in this list. Australian English has absorbed much from these two great languages. For depth of knowledge of their own language, no-body beats the British. Its their language after all. A thousand years in the making, the English language is embedded deep in the DNA of the British. No-one uses their language more skilfully than they do. On the other hand, American English has a creative power that recognizes no boundaries. Americans have taken a very good all-purpose language and extended it in all kinds of directions with new words describing the world as it is today. They do not generally cling to old forms out of respect for tradition. As Winston Churchill observed, Britain and America … two great nations divided by the same language. Australian English sits comfortably in the space between the two. Australian English began in the early days of settlement as English English with a healthy dash of Celtic influence from the many Scots, Irish and Welsh settlers who came to Australia. Large numbers of German settlers also came in the 1800's,and their influence on the language is also clearly evident. For over a hundred years, Australia developed in splendid isolation its unique blend of English, tempered by the hardships of heat and cold, deluge and drought, bushfires and cyclones. The harsh environment united people in a common struggle to survive. People helped each other. Strong communitarian loyalties were engendered. It is from this that the egalitarian character of Australia evolved. There is a strong emphasis on building a feeling of solidarity with others. Strangers will call each other "mate" or "luv" in a tone of voice ordinarily reserved for close friends and family in other parts of the world. Everyone was from somewhere else, and no-one was better than anyone else. A strong anti-authoritarian attitude became deeply embedded in Australian English. This was mainly directed towards their British overlords who still ran the country as a profitable colony. The Australian sense of humour is generally understated, delivered with a straight-face, and is often self-deprecating in nature. No-one wants to appear to be “up themselves”. Harsh or otherwise adverse conditions had to be met without complaint, so when discussing such conditions, it was necessary to do so with laconic, understated humour. Anyone not doing so was deemed a “whinger” (win-jer).Following World War II the American influence came increasingly to influence Australian culture and therefore the language. No-one is better at selling their popular culture to the world than the United States of America. Their pop culture is a beguiling instrument of foreign policy, so pervasive and persuasive it is. Young Australians enthusiastically embraced American culture, and since the 1940's the old established British language and customs have become blended with the American. If Australian English has a remarkable quality, it is the absence of regional dialects. It is spoken with relative uniformity across the entire nation. Brisbane on the East coast is a 4,300 kilometre (2,700 mile) drive from Perth on the West coast, yet there is little discernible linguistic difference between the two places compared with the difference, for example between Boston and San Francisco in the US. Nowhere else in the world do we see such linguistic uniformity across large distances.
Download or read book Scorn written by Matthew Parris and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time.' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage 'You're as ugly as a salad.' Bulgarian insult 'I'm going to beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.' Muhammed Ali There's no pleasure like a perfectly turned put-down (when it's directed at somebody else, of course) but Matthew Parris's Scorn is sharply different from the standard collections. Here are the funniest, sharpest, rudest and most devastating insults in history, from ancient Roman graffiti to the battlefields of Twitter. Drawing on bile from such masters as Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth I, Donald Trump, Groucho Marx, Princess Anne, Winston Churchill, Nigel Farage, Mae West and Alastair Campbell - which form an exchange between voices down the ages - Scorn shows that abuse can be an art form. This collection includes extended literary invective as well as short verbal shin-kicks. Encompassing literature, art, politics, showbiz, marriage, gender, nationality and religion, Matthew Parris's sublime collection is the perfect companion for the festive season, whether you're searching for the perfect elegant riposte, the rudest polite letter ever written, or a brutal verbal sledgehammer.
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Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australia’S Unthinkable Genocide by : Colin Tatz
Download or read book Australia’S Unthinkable Genocide written by Colin Tatz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are a moral people and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkableso claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UNs Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider themselves good colonists are capable of doing just thatkilling people because of who they were, forcibly removing their children in order to assimilate them and erase them from the landscape, and then, in the name of their protection, incarcerated them on reserves in a manner that caused them serious physical and mental harm. This confronting book addresses the whole issue of what happens to an indigenous minority who were considered other than human, an unworthy order of beings destined to die out.
Book Synopsis Merv Hughes' Best Sporting Insults by : Merv Hughes
Download or read book Merv Hughes' Best Sporting Insults written by Merv Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian sportsmen are known worldwide for their hilarious and, quite frankly, inspired sledges. Over the years, there have been some classic lines uttered on a variety of sporting fields and arenas, whether it's across the cricket pitch or on the footie field. Now, for the first time, we have the ultimate collection of sporting insults brought together by a man with a reputation for his humorous witticisms and cutting sledges: Merv Hughes. Merv Hughes' Best Sporting Insults will amuse any sports fan for hours.
Download or read book Who's who in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Literary Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: