Aussie greeting question

[Alpo]

Is that how everybody in Oz greets everybody, every damn time?

I meet someone, and I might say hello, or good morning, or how you doing, or howdy. All kinds of different greetings.

But whenever there is an Australian in a movie or a television show or an Australian made commercial trying to sucker the tourists to come over there and give them our money, they all say the same thing.

G'day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Or G’day mate.

[Waxahachie Kid #17017 L]

My son used to date a girl from Queensland, who was up here doing some work for the girl scouts, or some such thing. 

We loved her, and her accent.

For some reason, she thought we had an accent. 

Go figure. 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

9 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Or G’day mate.

 

Its usually G'day mate if its a mate (but not always you can say G'day mate to a stranger) or just G'day if you don't know them (like a bank teller, check out operator etc).

 

But to answer Alpo's query "Is that how everybody in Oz greets everybody, every damn time"?   ...... that's a yes.

[Alpo]

Y'all need to expand your vocabulary. Learn some other greetings. Hey-howaya. Top o' the morning. Konichiwa. Namaste. Aloha. Shalom.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

Or just a plain "Howdy". That's what I say.

[Buckshot Bear]

16 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Y'all need to expand your vocabulary. Learn some other greetings. Hey-howaya. Top o' the morning. Konichiwa. Namaste. Aloha. Shalom.

 

Ok.....I just asked my wife if I'm allowed to say "G'day good lookin" to females"......she said I must keep to my known vocabulary   

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

Clever girl!!

and smarter man to follow that advice

Regards

   

Gateway Kid

[Alpo]

45 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

.I just asked my wife if I'm allowed to say "G'day good lookin" to females

It's not, "G'day good lookin' ", it's, "Hey good lookin' "

 

(dang furriners cain't talk english )

 

 

[Pat Riot]

G’day Y’all…it has a ring to it, does it not? 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

Y'all need to expand your vocabulary. Learn some other greetings. Hey-howaya. Top o' the morning. Konichiwa. Namaste. Aloha. Shalom.

Dobree dyen 

[Alpo]

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Eto budet rabotat'

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

An Aussie Flight Leftenant I knew in 'Nam used to to say "G'day, Cobber" to me and my bunk mate.  I never asked what "cobber" meant.  I was a afraid it would lead to bloodshed.

[Pat Riot]

31 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

An Aussie Flight Leftenant I knew in 'Nam used to to say "G'day, Cobber" to me and my bunk mate.  I never asked what "cobber" meant.  I was a afraid it would lead to bloodshed.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cobber

 

cobber

[ kob-er ]

noun - Australian.

- a close fellow male friend; chum; pal.

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, Alpo said:

Namaste

 

Isn't that New Age for, "Well, bless your heart."?

[Major Crimes]

3 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

G’day Y’all…it has a ring to it, does it not? 

 

Australia and America, two countries divided by a common language.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

2 hours ago, Major Crimes said:

 

Australia and America, two countries divided by a common language.

 and that common language is English-ish ........   

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

..... this fella will tell you all you need to know .....   

[Painted Mohawk SASS 77785]

8 hours ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said:

My son used to date a girl from Queensland, who was up here doing some work for the girl scouts, or some such thing. 

We loved her, and her accent.

For some reason, she thought we had an accent. 

Go figure. 

 

She was right...

Myself I could listen to a real southern drawl accent all day 

[Alpo]

5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Isn't that New Age for, "Well, bless your heart."?

My understanding is that is Dot Indian for, "Hey Bubba, 'sup?"

[bgavin]

In Oakland (CA) it is usually "gimme your wallet" accompanied by something stuck in your back.
 

[Ramblin Gambler]

14 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

An Aussie Flight Leftenant I knew in 'Nam used to to say "G'day, Cobber" to me and my bunk mate.  I never asked what "cobber" meant.  I was a afraid it would lead to bloodshed.

 

Reminds me of working on the border and the mexicans I was working with started calling me wheto (or weto, or jueto ... I never met anyone who knew how it's spelled).  I asked what that meant and the only answer I got was that it was me so I stopped pushing it.  I didn't know if there was fixin to be a fight or what but it all turned out friendly.  Found out later it just means white boy.  No negative connotation by itself.  I started dating some girls down there and they called me wheto too. 

[John Kloehr]

1 hour ago, Ramblin Gambler said:

 

Reminds me of working on the border and the mexicans I was working with started calling me wheto (or weto, or jueto ... I never met anyone who knew how it's spelled).  I asked what that meant and the only answer I got was that it was me so I stopped pushing it.  I didn't know if there was fixin to be a fight or what but it all turned out friendly.  Found out later it just means white boy.  No negative connotation by itself.  I started dating some girls down there and they called me wheto too. 

Supposedly spelled guero IIRC. But sounds like weto.

 

No negative if actually referring to a white boy (or girl), but say that to a hispanic person? Get ready for a fight!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Guten tag, mein freund.

[Noz]

YAH AAAT SEEE

[Howlin Mad Murdock SASS #4037]

20 hours ago, Alpo said:

Y'all need to expand your vocabulary. Learn some other greetings. Hey-howaya. Top o' the morning. Konichiwa. Namaste. Aloha. Shalom.

Jambo, if you're ever in Kenya.

[Alpo]

2 hours ago, Noz said:

YAH AAAT SEEE

Isn't that a dice game?

[St. Louis Suomi SASS #31905]

I always liked Justin Wilson's greeting:  "How y'all are?  I sure am glad for you to see me."

 

STL Suomi

[Rye Miles #13621]

Whassup ?

[Singin' Sue 71615]

On 10/16/2021 at 3:22 AM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

..... this fella will tell you all you need to know .....   

G'day Wallaby!

Good on ya!

You just started my day off GREAT!

[Singin' Sue 71615]

Yá'át'ééh

 

Being reared on the edge of the Navajo Nation...this was familiar to me at a young age.

One of Daddy's hands was Navajo...Gilbert Tom was his name.

 

I always thought it funny in the John Wayne movies the would say Yah Ta Hey!!!

Just now, Singin' Sue 71615 said:

Yá'át'ééh

 

Being reared on the edge of the Navajo Nation...this was familiar to me at a young age.

One of Daddy's hands was Navajo...Gilbert Tom was his name.

 

I always thought it funny in the John Wayne movies the would say Yah Ta Hey!!!

Sounds like you are saying Yacht A!

[Alpo]

That's how I always heard it - ya ta hay. But then, I always heard it on television or in a movie. On The Brady Bunch, where they went to the Grand Canyon and camped in the bottom of it, Alice runs into Tonto and says it to him, and he says it back, correcting her pronunciation.

 

Several years ago a fellow came on this board and announced that he was one quarter Cherokee. And someone that was here at the time (who himself claimed to be 1/8 Shawnee) welcomed him by telling him ya ta hay. I thought that it was quite unlikely that that term meant anything in either Shawnee or Cherokee, but if it made them feel good, let them say it. They were speaking Indian.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

5 hours ago, Singin' Sue 71615 said:

G'day Wallaby!

Good on ya!

You just started my day off GREAT!

 

 Proud to be of service Ma'am ......