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Re: OT: All quiet on the west coast front
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Brian Ferguson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:07:36 +1100
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On 23/01/2011, at 10:03 PM, THDW wrote:

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> On 22 Jan 2011, at 20:55, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
> 
>> Recent you mean? Link? (Counldn't find anything recent on the BBC site.)

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> There's a scene in American Gangster where Russell Crowe, playing a hard nosed NY cop, starts duffing somebody up and calls his victim 'mate'. Sure that wasn't in the script.
> 

Russell Crowe is a New Zealander, but being a rugby league person calls everyone 'mate'. 
To me, a 'mate' is a person, male, with whom you are great friends and who would support you forever, but others treat the word as being just a general form of address, certainly not his victim. Very Sydney.

On the other hand, I doubt if Mr. Crowe, being a New Zealander, would appreciate being said to 'duff up' anyone.

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