[Leica] Strine - How many languages do you speak?

[DouglasMSharp at netscape.net (Douglas M. Sharp)]

Hi Marty,
a few years ago we had visitors (distant relations)from Port Augusta at 
home in the UK. When they were chatting among themselves I hardly 
understood a word of it, but they said that the rest of their family 
from, if I remember rightly,
Tea Tree Gully and Parramatta, were even worse.
Douglas
(Extremely distant descendent of Samuel Marsden - that's the M of the 
middle initial)

Deveney, Marty (PIRSA) schrieb:

>Doug maaate,
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>>Any speakers of Strine on the list? - good on yer' cobbers!
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>Well there's me (fluent in North Queensland drawl and Southern Rural strine
>dialects) and then there's Alex in Sydney, Andrew Nemeth, Alastair Firkin
>and probably others.  You can't live here and at least be able to understand
>it.
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>I am also fluent in music (classical notation and guitar tab).  I can order
>food and beer in several European languages.  Apart from that I'm pretty
>useless, linguistically, unless you need a scientific document 'translated'.
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>Marty
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