Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Why aren't Canadians more like Australians?

I was in the midst of a heated MSN discussion today and found myself lost for a turn of phrase. The only thing that popped to mind was 'fair dinkum'.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai3.htm
Where's the original Canuck phrase when you need it? Those Australians are light years ahead of us when it comes to language.
I mean, what do we have. Toque, Zamboni, Canoe, Eh. Much harder words to work into everyday conversation. Well ok, eh is pretty easy - but a lot less cool.
Right after Japan, I think I'm going to swing over to Oz - I wonder what percentages are like over there? Think they'd be higher if I throw around words like Toque?

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