The smegging hell?
Oct. 24th, 2003 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamGeorge W. Bush to the Australian Parliament, recaling John Howard's visit to the ranch in Texas some time back:
"You might remember that I called him a man of steel. That's Texan for fair dinkum."
....
Since when does fair dinkum, meaning to be true, real, honest, upfront etc translate into 'man of steel'? The hell?
I guess we can safely say Mr Bush's troubled track record with English also includes mangling Aussie-isms.
Unless he was cracking a joke.
I'm not sure which one troubles me the most.
"You might remember that I called him a man of steel. That's Texan for fair dinkum."
....
Since when does fair dinkum, meaning to be true, real, honest, upfront etc translate into 'man of steel'? The hell?
I guess we can safely say Mr Bush's troubled track record with English also includes mangling Aussie-isms.
Unless he was cracking a joke.
I'm not sure which one troubles me the most.
