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No-one says doco for 'documentation', but they do all the time for 'documentary': "I saw a doco on sharks last night..." We're definitely losing a lot of our c
by vacri 9y ago
No-one says doco for 'documentation', but they do all the time for 'documentary': "I saw a doco on sharks last night..."
We're definitely losing a lot of our colloquial terms, but not so much the way we speak. It's the nature of language after all, to change over time. I miss some of the terms, and a while back I intentionally started to use 'crikey' again (though that word itself is not hugely missed). Friends of mine, born and bred here, think it's hilariously quaint.
- emmelaich 9y agoI've used doco for documentation though as you say it is almost exclusively means documentary.
- hiharryhere 9y agofor me docs = documentation and doco = documentary
- phillc73 9y agoStrewth. You'd sound like a flamin' galah.
- nthcolumn 9y agoNo-one says doco for documentation? You'd better have a word with everybody in Little Collins Street then mate. (Used to drive me mad bloody victorians).