Following on from perardua I think it was, about the word gen. Here in Australia we used a variation of the word to mean bad information/not true, the phrase was "duff gen" and if you wanted to convey some truth or urgency to a matter you would say "no duff" e.g. during a training ex where you might be simulating casualties for the medics, if someone actually got injured you'd called for a "no duff casevac"
LT. Ox, that's your time in Vietnam showing! Didi mau is Vietnamese slang and from what my father told me (he did a tour in the last few years of the Aussie deployment), if you pronounced it Di, di mau it meant, "piss off/get out of here, right now!"
I also remember him talking about "Number 12" - if Number 10 was "the worst", then Number 12 was even lower/worse than that - and also Dinky dau, meaning to be crazy, screwed up. If you were boocoo dinky dau, you were majorly screwed up/insane (taken from French and Vietnamese, beaucoup & dinky dau).
Edit: Some more Aussie slang
Pisserphone - any tube, typically the cardboard tube used to pack individual mortar, recoilless rifle or Charlie G rounds, stuck in the ground standing up, to be used as a urinal.
Last edited by StainlessSteelCynic; 08-27-2015 at 07:14 PM.
Reason: adding
|