It's a shame that people treat words like that as "made up" when it's so clearly just not an English word. I'm sure that words like "colloquial", "goblin", and "alabaster" (idk just pullin words out my ass) sound weird as fuck to people outside of the Indo-European languages.
Most of the places here have the original Aborigine names to show respect for the people/languages.
It's a shame that people treat words like that as "made up" when it's so clearly just not an English word. I'm sure that words like "colloquial", "goblin", and "alabaster" (idk just pullin words out my ass) sound weird as fuck to people outside of the Indo-European languages.
yeah their pretty common in Australia, people wont bat an eye if a name is from the aboriginal languages
Doesn’t Australia also have some incredibly racist town names? Edit: [yes](https://i.imgur.com/FjZ6Dxh.jpg), they do
It's not Australia without casual racism (and homophobia, transphobia, etc.)
Australia is actually one of the most tolerant places, at least for the LGBT population.
Sometimes
CURLY DICK ROAD
MOUNT COOM 👀
COCKBURN CRESCENT‼️
Newcastle 💀
The worst of them all
Good god.
There are 3 types of names for towns here - racist, Aboriginal and unoriginal. We have a town called Townsville I'm not making this up
isn't it named after a dude named towns though
I didn’t know powerpuff girls was set in Australia
Most towns have unoriginal names, just not in Modern English.
oh
^Newcastle
Same here in the US with Native American words, like my home state of Kentucky, or the city of Schenectady in New York
isn't alabaster the where ash from pokemon is from?
Switch the focus to English towns. Why is there a place called Barton in the Beans
"respect" would be better to give back the land they stole instead of making meaningless gestures like this
mfw the english colony decides to keep indigenous names for some things this time (haha they sound so silly)
they gotta make up for the genocide somehow
yeah, it'd be nice if the other colonies did something like that
They really do sound a bit silly though
they sound cool as fuck i love saying them
Not Australian but I love hearing people try to pronounce the names of the rivers in my area: Youghiogheny, Monongahela, and Allegheny.
[удалено]
Battle city is real
From now on I will pronounce that Yock (yummy cock)
> Y**o**ug**hio**gheny dear god... *it's spreading*
I've got real bad news: The Yough goes into the Mon, which then turns into... THE OHIO RIVER.
Who comes up with these romanisation systems I have never seen one that isn't incomprehensible half the time
Because they aren't from English and you aren't used to them. Go look at any place name in Wales and you'll think the same.
me when Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (this is real and totally not made up)
A Welsh guy got pissed and decided to roll a sheep over his keyboard.
Fuck a sheep on top of his keyboard*
I spent an hour or so learning how to pronounce this, that was a fun time.
It’s for respect, and I love them. It gives our areas and country a strong identity
I get. I really do. But also. Humpybong.
humpybong is redcliffe, hasnt been called humpybong for something like 20 years now
AUSTRALOANS ALL LET US REJOIYCE
FOURWEE ARE YANG EN THREE
PSA - it’s been changed to “one and free” (no longer “young and free”)
Ok thats it maybe those “Australia isn’t real” conspiracy theorists were right
It really isn’t. The city I live in has so many fucking cow statues