I just realised that I’ve been in Australia for over 3 years now. Time sure flies and time for reflection. So, random things I notice #1: words and phrases Aussies (or at least Sydneysiders (or at least young Sydneysiders (or at least those around me))) particularly love to say:
- I reckon
- heaps (of?), e.g. thanks heaps, heaps cool
- mate
- hey? (used at the end of a statement)
Combining all of the above may or may not sound extremely Australian.
Also, the Middle Eastern people I meet outside Uni are very hostile.
A lot of Caucasians here are also closet and not-so-closet racists.
Australia is also not known for its flies for nothing.
I’m also sweating profusely at the moment but I still can’t help but love this place. What’s up with that?
Vickie Diablos is a postgraduate student in Health Informatics, a hardcore gamer geek and a socially awkward logic and science nerd. She thought keeping a "cool blog" would make her a cool person. Alas. 
Wayne Brooks
2 Nov 2009
12:48 pm
I thought “I reckon” was an Alabama phrase. That’s right Sidney is in “Southern” Australia.
new illuminati
2 Nov 2009
4:42 pm
Hey mate, I reckon heaps of people talk like this!
new illuminati
2 Nov 2009
4:43 pm
Hey mate, I reckon heaps of people talk like this! Struth, you’d be fair dinkum normal if you spoke this way!
Elize
3 Nov 2009
3:08 am
i have a friend who’s been there for about 3 years too – and i really don’t think he’ll ever leave that place.
seems like australia has something to make people fall in love and stay – and maybe that’s why i am so afraid of going there
Ria
3 Nov 2009
4:20 pm
Awww my friend lives in Australia and she hates it. She’s originally from South Africa. She finds it too hot generally and is always complaining. She’s been living there a long time though I guess and would probably rather be in Japan.
Latrina
6 Nov 2009
2:56 pm
I have always wanted to visit Australia! That’s funny that they say “I reckon” there – I wasn’t aware of that! That’s what people here in the south (USA) say.
Melody
10 Nov 2009
1:39 am
My friend came back after she completed her degree in Melbourne. She loved it there but I think she loves being at home now too. Luckily for me, she didn’t start saying things I don’t understand. I also heard about the ‘racism’, which sounds kind of weird to me, because in Scotland I was never (not once) treated that way. I wonder if you prefer England or Australia?
LJP
12 Nov 2009
1:28 am
In Victoria we don’t say ‘hey’ at the end of a sentence so much – I think that’s more a NSW/QLD thing. I don’t see so much racism in Melbourne either, but then that could just be the people I encounter…
Another couple of sayings:
F*ckn’ Oath!!
Bloody Oath!!
Maaaaaaaaaaate!!
You f*ckn’ beauty/ripper etc.
kenwooi
12 Nov 2009
4:17 am
i wish to australia one day!
Jenny
12 Nov 2009
2:20 pm
A lot of the aussies on WoW use “mate”. It kind of annoys me.
But I would love to visit the country one day. It looks so awesome.
Jen
16 Nov 2009
3:05 pm
I only seem to use the first two. And I’ve lived in Sydney my entire life, so I guess I don’t really understand why people fall in love with Sydney, or Australia. It all seems rather ordinary to me. Maybe I need to go live some place else and then come back to see the beauty of it.
The Envoy
17 Nov 2009
5:26 pm
Hmm…I’m planning to move to Australia in a couple of years….so this is quite an insight.
Joo73
9 Dec 2009
2:05 am
Sup? Yeh I live in the goldfields in Western Aust, hot red dirt and lots of people from all over the world and the most racist people here are the ‘natives’ I reakon we do speak heaps of sh*t hey, true enuf if you ask me the old so called ‘aussie’ way of life is all but long gone, not entirely but close to it. I still wear stubbies in summer and a singlet ,oh and and a real aussie beer, VB!
. @ latrina , yeh I know of that as well, but we say it with a E and dont emphasize the Rrrr..
Joo
Btw Awesome blog!