This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: Antipodeans

Antipodes comes from  "anti" or opposite and "podes" for feet. Having feet
up and head down. I didn't think we worked that hard. generally used to
refer to people from Australian and New Zealand.
Stewart ACT

----------
> From: Vanessa Marsden <vmarsden@postoffice.utas.edu.au>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Re: Antipodeans
> Date: Friday, 15 August 1997 17:03
> 
> >Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:03:15 +1100
> >To:monster@super-highway.net
> >From:vmarsden@postoffice.sandybay.utas.edu.au (Vanessa Marsden)
> >Subject:Re: Antipodeans
> >
> >>What does antipodean mean?  I hate sounding stupid, I'm just new :)
> >
> >
> >Dear Trish,
> >
> >*grin* better to sound stupid than be stupid! 'The Antipodes' is British
> >colonial jargon for places on the opposite side of the earth. I can't
find
> >any solid references at the moment (so people may want to correct me
here)
> >but I think that the Antipodes was originally thought to be a sort of
> >"upside-down world" which was the opposite of the world when it was just
> >Europe and the near East. So when there was mention of 'The Great South
> >Land' people imagined it to be the true Antipodes. Then, when Europeans
> >settled here it was so far away from 'home', and so full of weird
things,
> >that it did seem to be The Antipodes.
> >
> >Hope the facts are pretty right- and it makes sense :)
> >
> >vanessa.
> 
>
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index