The complete works of professor afferbeck lauder, 2009. He was professor of strine studies at the university of sinny and a fellow of the yarnurdov foundation, london. Oct 10, 2012 in 1812 the convict james hardy vaux pictured produced what is credited as being the first australian dictionary. After youre setup, your website can earn you money while you work, play or even sleep. Spurred on by the succes of let stalk strine, professor lauder continues his research into the strine wire flife. A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Lauders tan cancel town council is more like teown keowncel.
Also included are fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite, lauders guide to the strangled dialect of the english upper class. Among text publishing s text classics series is strine, a compilation of afferbeck lauder s writings on the english language that includes let stalk strine and nose tone unturned. Or the manufacturer of one of the millions of products that we sell. The complete works of professor afferbeck lauder on your website. He revealed his findings in a little book called let stalk strine, an instant classic and as john clarke writes in his ford. Citeseerx qualitative spatial reasoning in interpreting. Alastair ardoch morrison, under the strine pseudonym of afferbeck lauder which is strine for alphabetical order, wrote a song with air chew without you in 1965 followed by a series of books let stalk strine 1965, nose tone unturned 1967, fraffly well spoken 1968 and fraffly suite 1969. Actually ive heard people distinguish three different australian accents. Here, collected in one volume, are afferbeck lauders aka alastair morrison and alphabetical order groundbreaking studies of australian speech, let stalk strine, nose tone unturned, fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite. Also included are fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite, lauder s guide to the strangled dialect of the english upper class. Afferbeck lauder was the pseudonym used by alastair ardoch morrison, born in melbourne 21 september 191115 march 1998, an australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented strine in the song with air chew and a series of books beginning with let stalk strine ure smith, sydney, australia, 1965. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
I even thought afferbeck lauder was the author s real name. It is pretty difficult to understand even though you are technically speaking the same language the way of express. A lexicon of modern strine useage by compiled and annotated by afferbeck lauder and a great selection of related books. The complete works of professor afferbeck lauder by. Jan 31, 2009 considering the intense interest australians have shown in their language think of afferbeck lauder s let stalk strine, barry humphries, or john ogrady, and others earlier, it is really. Afferbeck lauders two books decades ago about australian speech. Let stalk strine nose tone unturned he also wrote a couple about the speech of the upper english class. It was professor afferbeck lauder who made the groundbreaking discovery that australians speak strine not english, as had long been thought. Strine text classics, afferbeck lauder shop online for. Afferbeck lauder was the pseudonym used by alastair ardoch morrison, born in melbourne 21 september 191115 march 1998, an australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented strine in the song with air chew and a series of books beginning with let stalk strine. Let s talk australian, 1965 let s talk australian dictionary source. The crazy games of john clarke michael heyward on the. Smartselltm the new way to sell online we wont be beaten by anyone. Let stalk strine has been compiled for stewnce, overseas vistas and new strines, and also for the jell public.
Afferbeck lauder afferbeck lauder poems poem hunter. Also included are fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite. The start of something beautiful estee built her company with the perfect mix of knowhow, dedication, persistence, passion, family commitmentand a lot of free samples. Let stalk strine, a lexicon of modern australian usage by professor afferbeck lauder, was a funny, quirky guide. Here, collected in one volume, are afferbeck lauders groundbreaking studies of australian speech, let stalk strine, nose tone unturned, fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite. Afferbeck lauder was the pseudonym used by alastair ardoch morrison 21 september 15 march, an australian graphic artist and author who in the s documented strine in the song with air chew and a series of books beginning with let stalk strine ure smith, sydney, australia. Book, fraffley strine everything, paper, written by afferbeck lauder alistair morrison and illustrated by al terego alistair morrison, being the complete, unabridged fraffly strine everything and comprising together in one volume let stalk strine, nose tone unturned, fraffly well spoken. The complete works of professor afferbeck lauder by afferbeck lauderbuy. The original title let stalk strine, is a sort of dictionarycumphrase book of australian terms and. Afferbeck lauder a syncope for alphabetical order is a psudonym for alastair ardoch morrison, an australian writer who gave no clue as to his identity in any of his books. I read let stalk strine but missed most of the humour because i hadnt realised it was based on spoken australian english and meant to be read aloud.
It s easy to get started we will give you example code. A new and comprehensive vocabulary of the flash language. Its like afferbeck lauders lets stalk strine, or the poems of ern malley. Here, collected in one volume, are afferbeck lauder s aka alastair morrison and alphabetical order groundbreaking studies of australian speech, let stalk strine, nose tone unturned, fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite. Afferbeck lauder, author of let stalk strine, on librarything.
Also included are fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite, lauders guides to the strangled dialect of the english upper class. It was apparently written by a man named professor afferbeck lauder professor alphabetical order explaining how to speak in an australian accent. Let stalk strine, a lexicon of modern australian usage by professor afferbeck lauder. Johns early drafts made it plain that he was doing much more than imagine the great minds of the century playing each other at tennis. The idea for the book arose as result of a report in the sydney morning herald, 30 november 1964. In the broad variant the vowel shifts are particularly obvious, but i speak cultivated and have been mistaken for english by englishmen several times. It was essentially a compilation of slang used by the flash criminal element in the infant colony, much of it a derivative of london slang. Strine is a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a broad accent of australian english.
Hello asmita, working on a diverse team with your international counterparts is indeed a very challenging task in today s world. Let stalk strine is the first and only clear, straighforward exposition of the strine language. The logistics of 50 per cent ockhams razor abc radio. Let stalk strine, a lexicon of the modern strine language, by prof.
I just finished rereading afferbeck lauders 1965 classic let stalk strine and, although it was still hilarious, it is now very dated. Here, collected in one volume, are afferbeck lauders groundbreaking studies of australian speech, let stalk strine and nose tone unturned. Let stalk strine, a lexicon of modern australian usage by professor afferbeck lauder, was a funny, quirky guide to the peculiar way we spoke, lived and thought after the war and it sold like hotcakes, in sydney in particular. Strine, afferbeck lauder shop online for books in australia. Click to read more about let stalk strine by afferbeck lauder. Thank you again for taking the time to let the world know about your positive experience. A lexicon of modern strine useage by compiled and annotated by afferbeck lauder and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Alastair ardoch morrison, under the strine pseudonym of afferbeck lauder a syncope for alphabetical order, wrote a song with air chew without you in 1965 followed by a series of books let stalk strine 1965, nose tone unturned 1967, fraffly well spoken 1968, and fraffly suite 1969. Its popularity spawned a series of books and other. Find let stalk strine by lauder, afferbeck at biblio. Strine publishings including nose tone unturned no stone unturned for those too young to remember here are some strineisms. The idea is its a joke dictionary where the words only make sense if you pronounce them in an australian accent, so if you go through the whole thing it might be quite useful. Sep 19, 2019 it may come as a surprise to many but the name australia is a nick name. Here, collected in one volume, are afferbeck lauder s groundbreaking studies of australian speech, let stalk strine, nose tone unturned, fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite. Thanks to text publishing, we have one copy of strine to give away. Dunno if uspecialagentscooby agrees, but ive found alastair morrison afferbeck lauder s let stalk strine 1965 a surprisingly useful reference for this. The solution to my problems was lauders book let stalk strine lets talk australian lauder 1965. Strine meaning and origin of the name strine nameaning. The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word australian in an exaggerated broad australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run words together in a form of liaison.
I distinctly remember my own introduction to the wonders of strine. Afferbeck lauder afferbeck lauder biography poem hunter. A lexicon of modern strine usage twelfth impression by lauder, afferbeck isbn. He wouldnt know what a dunny is, he doesnt talk strine.
Also included are fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite, lauder s guides to the strangled dialect of the english upper class. Here, collected in one volume, are afferbeck lauder s groundbreaking studies of australian speech, let stalk strine and nose tone unturned. For a guide to the phonetics of strine check out morrisons works, published under the pseudomyn afferbeck lauder strine for alphabetical order, let stalk strine and nose tone unturned. This book is an strine as ned kelly and waltzing matilda. He revealed his findings in a little book called let stalk strine, an instant classic and as john clarke writes in his ford a publishing phenomenon. Let stalk strine and nose tone unturned afferbeck lauder. Strine, text classics by afferbeck lauder 9781921922329. Who is charlie charm puck in waltzing matilda there was never any book about australian speech like strine or about posh british speech like fraffly well spoken. I conclude by summarizing the common features of the spatial inferences involved here, and by tentatively drawing some morals for research in this area. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. In afferbeck lauders seminal work, let stalk strine, aorta is defined by the example, aorta fix the roads.
Australian slang covers commonly used words and sayings in australia today. It is very sydneybased sinnybeist and the vowel dipthongs are no longer true. The complete works of professor afferbeck lauder by afferbeck lauder, 9781921656804, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. In 1965, ure smith in sydney published let stalk strine, by the creative genius, afferbeck lauder. I was probably about ten when i read it and the companion volume, nose tone unturned. As john clarke outlines in his foreward, in 1965 an unusual book called let stalk strine let s talk australia thumped onto the nearly bare humour section. Oct 25, 2010 it was professor afferbeck lauder who made the groundbreaking discovery that australians speak strine not english, as had long been thought. What should i do to easily understand the foreign accent. In the mid 60s an australian writer alistair morison wrote a book under the pseudonym afferbeck lauder alphabetical order called let stork strine let s talk australian which became popular for a while and spawned a series of books and other strine publishings nose tone unturned aka. Indeed, there is a veritable cottage industry of dictionaries of australian slang, beginning with professor afferbeck lauder s 1965 1 tongueincheek let stalk strine, and culminating in. Strine is a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to. Let stalk some more strine the sydney morning herald.
Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers all about let stalk strine by afferbeck lauder. The book is a satirical guide to the spoken australian language. Fraffly well spoken fraffly suite these are available in single volumes or as collections from various places, e. Afferbeck lauder s studies of australian speech, let stalk strine and nose tone unturned with fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite, lauder s guide to the dialect of the english upper class.
Let stalk strine by afferbeck lauder and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Afferbeck lauder was the pseudonym used by alastair ardoch morrison 21 september 1911 15 march 1998, an australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented strine in the song with air chew and a series of books beginning with let stalk strine ure smith, sydney, australia, 1965. Australian wit and humor australian wit and humour australia. Way back in 1965 a peculiar little book became an australian publishing sensation. A lexicon of modern strine usage afferbeck lauder on. Strine by afferbeck lauder, 9780725406011, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. This book is as strine as ned kelly and waltzing matilda.
The complete works of professor afferbeck lauder by afferbeck lauder, 9781921520853, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Let stalk strine is the first and only clear, straightforward exposition of the strine language. Let stalk strine 1965, nose tone unturned 1967, fraffly well spoken 1968 and fraffly suite 1969. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Morrison illustrated the books and also used the pseudonym al terego. This collection of afferbeck lauders hilarious writings on language includes the original let stalk strine and its sequel, nose tone unturned, along with fraffly well spoken and fraffly suite.