Chris Schillig: You re phat if you read this
Chris Schillig
Special to The Alliance Review
As if to prove my contention that I learn more from my students than they learn from me, every so often they teach me new slang.
In recent weeks, they have taught me “phat” (a compliment), “make bank” (to go to work), and “sheesh,” which can be an expression of appreciation (sheesh, that team is good) or a call-and-response, where one person says the word again and again in a high-pitched voice until somebody else says it back.
“Bussin” was one of this week’s entries. It means food that tastes really good. For example, the hamburger I had for dinner Wednesday was really bussin, although when I said this to my wife, she asked me what was wrong.
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Dr Kate Burridge and her colleagues at Monash have received a government grant covering three years of research into the uniqueness of
Australian vernacular from the late 1800’s to today.
As Kate puts it, “every gang has their own slang” and the origin of some Australian slang can be traced back to the Old Bailey and the language used by prisoners in the docks before they were sentenced to deportation.
Transcripts of those cases are just one of the sources researches will be exploring.
Duration: 38min 20sec