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<blockquote data-quote="net1" data-source="post: 21867"><p>In the beginning was the word, and the word was "G'day!."</p><p>That's how the New Testament might have begun if Jesus had been born Australian, according to an Australian author and broadcaster who has just completed a collection of favorite bible stories retold in Australian English.</p><p></p><p>To some, Australian English is a screech of tortured vowels and suppressed consonants parodied by "Seinfeld" and "The Simpsons."</p><p></p><p>But to Kel Richards, author of "The Aussie Bible (Well, bits of it anyway)," it is a rich vein of regional idioms and unique slang expressions.</p><p></p><p>"We don't talk like anyone else on Earth," </p><p></p><p>Based loosely on a similar book of mainly New Testament bible stories in Cockney rhyming slang, Richards' "Aussie bible" was backed by the Bible Society of New South Wales in an attempt to win new readers for some of the world's best-known stories.</p><p></p><p>The Three Wise Men, for example, becomes "three eggheads from out east" who go in search of the baby Jesus. "We saw his star out east, and we've come to say 'G'day Your Majesty'," they say.</p><p></p><p>Richards' version of the bible has the Good Samaritan attacked by "a bunch of bushrangers," while "Australian Jesus" describes those who build their houses on sand as "boofheads."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="net1, post: 21867"] In the beginning was the word, and the word was "G'day!." That's how the New Testament might have begun if Jesus had been born Australian, according to an Australian author and broadcaster who has just completed a collection of favorite bible stories retold in Australian English. To some, Australian English is a screech of tortured vowels and suppressed consonants parodied by "Seinfeld" and "The Simpsons." But to Kel Richards, author of "The Aussie Bible (Well, bits of it anyway)," it is a rich vein of regional idioms and unique slang exp[b][/b]ressions. "We don't talk like anyone else on Earth," Based loosely on a similar book of mainly New Testament bible stories in Cockney rhyming slang, Richards' "Aussie bible" was backed by the Bible Society of New South Wales in an attempt to win new readers for some of the world's best-known stories. The Three Wise Men, for example, becomes "three eggheads from out east" who go in search of the baby Jesus. "We saw his star out east, and we've come to say 'G'day Your Majesty'," they say. Richards' version of the bible has the Good Samaritan attacked by "a bunch of bushrangers," while "Australian Jesus" describes those who build their houses on sand as "boofheads." [/QUOTE]
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