more Australia-related questions
Oct. 17th, 2010 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitThe fic I'm working on has generated a couple more Australia-related questions that google isn't answering:
1) What's a common kind of tree that someone might have in their garden, in the Melbourne area?
2) Is there an endearment that a middle-class man in his early thirties might use to address his wife? He's speaking in an offhand way--thanking her for something minor--rather than in a romantic or highly emotional context. If he were an American he'd say "Thanks, honey," but I don't know if there's an Australian equivalent.
Many thanks and geographically appropriate endearments to anyone who can help!
1) What's a common kind of tree that someone might have in their garden, in the Melbourne area?
2) Is there an endearment that a middle-class man in his early thirties might use to address his wife? He's speaking in an offhand way--thanking her for something minor--rather than in a romantic or highly emotional context. If he were an American he'd say "Thanks, honey," but I don't know if there's an Australian equivalent.
Many thanks and geographically appropriate endearments to anyone who can help!
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Date: 2010-10-19 01:51 am (UTC)I've been told that in the UK, class and region are huge factors in when/how "love" is used--with the result that I'm now nervous about using it in fic, ever.
Actually "hon" as a generic term of address in the US is quite regional and class-based, too. It's mostly southeastern, as you said, and it's also pretty working-class.
Argh, why must language be so complicated?!