Very Blokie language

[Steve Mars]

Last week at our local market I saw a youngish, say 13 year old girl carrying her AFL ball throughout the market as one is encouraged to do if one wants to become better footballer. Something I suspect I would have been most unlikely to see before the start of the National Women's Roster and the associated advertising/promotion. All I was trying to point out that the blokiness of the language in many of the videos, if you haven't noticed it just watch a couple again, is probably not doing the company any favours in encouraging women and girls to become involved. It was not meant as a criticism of the language used per se, but rather to suggest they may be missing an opportunity.

[DrNomis_44]

Last week at our local market I saw a youngish, say 13 year old girl carrying her AFL ball throughout the market as one is encouraged to do if one wants to become better footballer. Something I suspect I would have been most unlikely to see before the start of the National Women's Roster and the associated advertising/promotion. All I was trying to point out that the blokiness of the language in many of the videos, if you haven't noticed it just watch a couple again, is probably not doing the company any favours in encouraging women and girls to become involved. It was not meant as a criticism of the language used per se, but rather to suggest they may be missing an opportunity.

I think the Blokish language in the videos is really just due to the majority of us being Australians, and the way we live life here in Australia, plus there's the Australian culture, most Australians tend to be big followers of Australian Rules Football, and Cricket too, we Australians tend to use Australian "Slang" words when we say things, for example, we use the word "mate" a lot which is Aussie slang for "friend", it is equivalent to the American slang word "buddy", or "bro", the word "bloke" is Aussie slang for "man", there are lots of other slang words that we Australians use too.


Most of us are pretty broad-minded, but we do try to keep this forum family-oriented, that's one of the reasons why I actually do like being a part of this forum and it's community, I'm also a member of another forum that is dedicated to building D.I.Y. effects pedals, and the tone of some of the posts in it is not exactly what would be acceptable in this forum.