대전외벽 May 2nd at the Daejeon Wall

[shanja]

So...a big thanks and cheers to the magnificent crew who showed up for some awesome plastic fantastic at the Daejeon Wall. Heidi (Bloom), Sirius, 김연, 선지 and Lloyd, Lindsay and Brendan, Matt, Andrew and Sarah, Dale...am I fogetting folk? There were the usual crew of awesome locals, Andrew 구, 형찬, 박기웅 (선생님!), 은니누나, 청원...and the Chinese take away delivery dude who made lunch so awesome! I'm still full as a goog*
The weather, sweet wags, was splendid, as magnificent a cragging day as could be conjured by the ken of any. Light breezes lifted locks of hair 20m up and stayed the dreaded sweat-fest intimated by the overhanging gape we stood before. Afar and near the bursting green new growth and flowered lands kept up thye vibe of "good" whilst some fine climbing was done. Especially big wraps to 연 and Sarah who got in their first ever climbs, and to Lloyd for showing such fast improvement in technique. Awesome stuff all around, and great day.

* full as a goog = Australian vernacular for very full indeed (goog= googey egg/ an egg)

[haneulsae]

Jake and everyone,

Thanks for resurrecting my dead climbing soul on Sunday. I was generally depressed and suffering from withdraw after ice climbing season ended. Now that I've had a taste of sport climbing I feel like I've been born-again.
I've uploaded some photos of the Sunday session on Facebook. Just go through Jake's page and you'll probably see a link to my page.

Speaking about Australian slang here are a few phrases I like:

Having a shocker - having a bad day (because 'shocker' rhymes with 'Barry Crocker' who is this really bad and cheesy singer in Oz)

dead horse - tomato sauce (What North Americans call ketchup) 'horse' and 'sauce' rhyme when you say them like an Aussie.

[shanja]

Yes, we all have a "Barry" every now and then (A Barry = A Barry Crocker = A shocker). Australian English has a lot of Cockney rhyming slang incorporated. "A China" = A china plate = a mate (friend). Trouble and Strife = wife, the frog and toad = the road, the Johnny = John Dory = the story...etc

a-What the Johhny with Kev and Bev?
B-Aww it's a shocker mate, Kev did a runner with Bev's sister!
A-Crikey! I though he and the trouble and strife were happy as Larry!
B-Nah mate, me old China said they were always having a blue (a fight) over something or other...
A-So that's why Kev hit the frog and toad with Bev's sister, eh?
B-Yeah, speaking of which I better chuff along (go) too before my trouble and strife gets all antsy (worries/ upset).
A- Alright me old China, too-a-roo (goodbye).

[tivs]

You all really say "crikey"?! ㅋㅋ

[shanja]

Well...we do sometimes, but "strewth", "blimey charlie", "stone the crows", "bloody nora", "holy bloody wars", "strike a (bloody) light" and "hooley dooley" also get a fair run off the tongue....
though sad to say, uncouth, uncreative swearing all centred on the "F" word has replaced a lot of these words in some people. Not that I'm offended, but it's kinda sad to see such homogenization and dumbing down of language...
"bloody" has been termed the "great Aussie adjective/ adverb" for it's unique frequency within the venacular...often replacing "very" etc as in "bloody hot/ cold/ good/ bad/ nice/ terrible etc etc"
or as an inter-word particle as in "fan-bloody-tastic", "you bloody beauty", un-bloody-believeable", "super-bloody-human", fabu-bloody-lous" etc
or as a universal intensifier, where "very" would not work in English, as in: "I'm tired to bloody death", He's a hard bloody boss", "it's all bloody broken", you're in big bloody trouble" etc
It's not even considered a particularly rude word. It was in an international TV ad for "visit Australia" camapaigns: "Where the bloody hell are ya?"
OK this has nothing to do with climbing, I bloody well know. But we had a fan-bloody-tastic time, in beautiful bloody weather with a sweet bloody crew.

[Louise]

Jake,

You ledgebag! Loving the juice you're unleashing on the dialects. Reckon we'll all be fluent in no time!