Language Down Under:
Several ways to take fucking English in this context: in particular, defiantly (not some other fucking language) or boastfully (really fucking great English) or descriptively (English full of fuck). Or all at once.
Language Down Under:
Several ways to take fucking English in this context: in particular, defiantly (not some other fucking language) or boastfully (really fucking great English) or descriptively (English full of fuck). Or all at once.
September 22, 2011 at 11:43 am |
You assume an adjective. It could be that an optional comma is not included after “speak,” and that the versatile word in question is intended as a verb.
September 22, 2011 at 1:32 pm |
Well, anything is possible. But some things are much more plausible than others.
September 22, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Well, “we speak [only while] fucking English” would leave the continent an awfully quiet place unless there were plenty of English to go around, but “we speak [occasionally while] fucking English” would hardly be worthy of a T-shirt unless they are otherwise notably quiet fuckers.
September 22, 2011 at 11:47 am |
I’d suspect #1 – and obviously a shade of #3.
September 22, 2011 at 9:38 pm |
Australia has its jingoistic rednecks too :-/
I’d say it was meant to be a humorously defiant description.
September 22, 2011 at 11:21 pm |
Perhaps they mean that Australians don’t speak German, as an answer to the popular Austrian T-shirt ‘There are no kangaroos in Austria‘.