Talk:Aussie

message: The chant looks like Oggy Oggy Oggy -- a spin-off? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.16.250.33 (talk) 06:23, 19 February 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The section on Aussie as a cultural moniker reads like a defenseve attack upon a so-called "radical egalitarian movement" and goes on to throw in a comment regarding legal the "fictions of arbitrary citizenship status". 
The paragraph whiffs of polemic and needs cleaning up. mangonorth
The argument (where it should not be an argument but description of facts) posits that it is not the nationalists that are being exclusive in their use of the word Aussie. This seems to fly in the face of their obvious intentions!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.228.152.208 (talk) 11:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Please Explain!

message: I have removed the lengthy description of the "Aussie" chant, as there is already an independant page on this topic.
As the chant is a relatively new phenomenon, (and one that has been politicized under the current wave of nationalism,) it should not dominate a description of a word that has broader, long standing and more inclusive meaning. mangonorth  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.228.152.208 (talk) 11:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: As Chant?

message: Article states:
"In New Zealand and the United Kingdom the term is sometimes used to refer to the country of Australia, as well as Australian persons. In Australia itself the term is only used to refer to its inhabitants."
Does anyone agree with this? I am an Australian and I have heard a number of people use "Aussie" to refer to the country. Should this unsubstantiated claim be removed from the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buvelot64 (talk • contribs) 10:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word "Aussie" 

message: I've removed this topic from the category 'Perjorative terms', as the term Aussie is rarely or never used perjoratively itself. Offensive use of the term 'Aussie' comes from its use as an exclusive term, thus labelling others (particularly Australians with an ethnic heritage) as 'not real Aussies'. I haven't found any reference of the term Aussie used perjoratively; please edit this if you find a solid reference.
peterl 21:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perjorative use 

message: Do we really need that pretentious factoid in the lead? The lead should talk about the most important aspects of the subject matter, and the fact that this happens to be an autonym is an eye-rolling trivia that should be either removed or push well down in the article. When people look up something quickly in Wikipedia they don't want to know about some other smart-arse word that they probably don't care about. Not unless the oh-look-I-know-this-word-logism is necessary to explain the subject. 205.228.108.58 (talk) 07:36, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Relegated to a category. Hopefully acceptable username (talk) 01:10, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autonym 

message: Aussie, is a colloquialism that is a substitute for 'Australia' and 'Australian'
Examples of how Aussie is substituted, include:
* You can be Australian, or you can be Aussie.
* You can also be an Australian citizen, or you can be an Aussie citizen
* You can visit Australia, or you can visit Aussie. 
FlatOut 13:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification on Use 

message: There are four sources cited. One is an article to which the link doe not work. The other four are dictionary definitions which do NOT include the country as one of the meanings of "aussie". Cloudeight (talk) 17:51, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  use of "aussie" to refer to the country itself