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qaz @lemmy.world

4w ago

bingle rule

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A dictionary is descriptive not prescriptive.
If Aussies wanna say bingle for a prang, they can go right ahead
- We have them too, they are different though. Last time I had a prang I was on my pushy.
  
  As someone who doesn't have the luxury of distinction in my dialect of English, when is a bingle a bingle and when is a prang a prang? Is the line between the two or is there a third, yet to come up, term
- Feel like a bingle is more like when you reverse into a pole or scratch the bumper, or maybe rear end/reverse into another vehicle at <10km/h. Prangs require panel beating and maybe a trip to the hospital.
  
  Ah interesting I think we would maybe say dinged if it was a minor superficial bump, prangs go from there up to about what you described, generally no one gets hurt in a prang over here though. After that it's probably just crash until you get to the totaled/wrote-off territory

To be fair, "fender bender" sounds like it could be Australian, too, if said in an Australian accent.
- Fendo bendo
  
  Feendah beendah
- The thing is we typically say “guard” instead of “fender” when referring to the car body panel surrounding the wheel. Although this could be regional within Australia

Is a bingle the same as a fender-bender?
- Excuse you... that is a bingle-bangle.
  
  Funbucket, is that you?

I like the german word for that: Blechschaden.
Literally means: Sheet metal damage.
Pretty descriptive.
- Same goes for Dutch. Blikschade.
- Also, onomatopoeic.
  
  Only if you can't read German though.
  ch-sch has a very smooth transition from the back to the front of your mouth.
  Unless you're Swiss. Then it's onomatopoeic.
  
  Every time there’s a discussion about language on lemmy, someone writes a German word and someone else comments a weird incantation.

no way

It's so funny, non Australians complaining about Australia slang mirrors foreigners complaining when learning English. E.g. people think Australians are crazy for giving toilets an "immature" and "toy like" name in the form of dunny, but potty is also immature and toy like.
- The only people who say potty are children and people talking to children.
  
  And people talking to their pets :)
- I can't explain why but I absolutely hate the word "potty" and refuse to use it. Something about it is like digging splinters in underneath my fingernails, but in my soul. Luckily I don't have kids, but when I'm around my nephews and one of them says they have to "go potty" I hate it, every time.
  
  My kids used a potty when they were potty training. A potty is a cunningly fashioned piece of plastic that children shit and piss into once they're big enough not to use nappies, but too small for a toilet. Calling a toilet a potty is infantilising and weird.
  ... Anyway that's why I think I sounds off to use that word.
  
  Try switching to shitta,
  I apologise for my potty mouth

Their ancestors had a long long time on a prison transport with nothing else to do. Now they have a long long time in a desert with nothing else to do. It’s why they’re good at cricket. A long long time with nothing else to do.

its a beautiful language

In Finnish you would say "kolari", which is sort of "kolahdus" as in "a clunk" / "crash" with a diminutive at the end.
So like, "clunkito", or "crashito."
Even when it's a big one. Although then you tend to veer into territory where you'd describe it as an "unfortunation", if it's sever enough. (Onnettomuus,)

It's evolution forking them from us so later we can fork them as crabs.... Sorry, I meant evolution is dinglehoppering them from us.

Hate us cuz they ain'us (im not an aussie though)
- hatus cuz they anus
  
  Exactly! They hate us because they ain't us.
- Nice username
  
  ¡Danke!

This is why when celebrity Lara Bingle's career took a bit of a nose dive, it was funny as hell. But it's not a commonly used word in my social group.

I cannot read Australian slang but when I'm actually talking to people it makes too much sense
- Yeah nah it gets worse when you write it down, like reading Shakespeare opposed to seeing it performed.
  
  Mate that is the greatest metaphor

wiktionary confirms

It sounds whimsical until you hear the people saying it.

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