Re: CHAT: "Mister" (WAS: Re: New Lang: Igassik)

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yeah, I noticed that when I would say things like "Are you in college?"
> when chatting with Aussies (the response would often be "What?").  I
> quickly picked up that the usual term (at least, among the couple of
> Aussies I've chatted with) is "Uni", which I've since adopted for
> myself, in addition to Chrissy for Christmas.
Yes, 'uni' is a very common abbreviation for 'university'.

On the other hand, 'chrissy' is not a common abbreviation for Christmas,
in fact it's downright unfamiliar to me.

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