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    Death of ‘drongo’: Are Aussie insults and swearwords dying out?

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    4. NecessaryUsername69 on

      We need more young people signing up to the Alf Stewart program, ya flamin’ galahs.

    5. Yasin616 on

      All local slang is dying across the world as algorithms globalise slang, your local swear words are dead

    6. 22nd_century on

      I started saying drongo again when I had kids and didn’t want to swear in front of them. It’s firmly back in rotation now.

    7. FamiliarDirection563 on

      Yep, Australianisms are being replaced by asshole, Zee, fall, diaper…it makes me want to puke

    8. xRicharizard on

      Hmmmmm drongo hasn’t left my vocabulary, but my friends and I had always used the Australian vernacular ironically.

    11. CaravelClerihew on

      Language evolves? There’s a ton of slang that’s since died and been replaced. What’s the last time you used “lairy” or “Blind Freddy”?

    12. Mysterious_Dot2090 on

      Probably, but this reminded me of the trailer I saw for Apex last night where Taron Egerton says some weird phrase (which I can’t remember) that I have never heard an Aussie say and it’s said in his terrible Aussie accent 😭 I am tempted to watch the movie just for the cringe factor of his accent throughout lol. I usually think he’s ok but the accent is so bad.

    13. iball1984 on

      Language evolves over time.

      As and example, calling a redhead “blue” is proper old-school Australian. But that’s died out, to be replaced by “Ranga”, which is equally as Australian.

      So no, Australian slang is not dying out. It’s changing.

    14. gooder_name on

      I like dingus, but will reintegrate drongo assuming it doesn’t have some kind of terribly racist etymology

    16. Joleda217 on

      Is calling someone a grub counted? Very much still in rotation at my house 🤣

    17. Hefty-existence26196 on

      My Dad has been calling me a drongo (not in a harsh way, just when I’ve done something dumb) for 30yrs lol. I never knew until a few years ago that a Drongo is actually a stunning looking bird species.

    21. Admirable_Count989 on

      Ya don’t hear someone being called a “muppet” too much either. Mine you, I’m a night shift worker so I really don’t get out much. 😎

    22. Steinbulls on

      I like callung people a dunce, its got a punchiness out the mouth like cunt but is PG

    25. crocicorn on

      I still say boofhead like 50 times a day, I’m not letting that die on my watch.

      I do need to bring back derro and gronk though, haven’t been using them much since I was a teenager.

    27. Hypo_Mix on

      “why is Australian culture dying out? Also why should my taxes pay for the arts and abc?”

      Bluey only got made as the BBC decided to fund it, because of the liberals cuts to the ABC. 

    29. SunflowerSamurai_ on

      I would say Aussie slang actually punches above its weight and is very global. We invented the word selfie! I hear Americans saying “rando” all the time, and similar phrases I can’t remember off the top of my head.

    31. Defiant_Hamster24 on

      Let’s normalise muppet while we are at it. Used in a sentence: Have a go at the muppet over there off his chops at 10am on a Sunday, 2 sleeps till Christmas for that battered sav.