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Samoan slang enters Australian mainstream, fuels interest in Polynesian culture, language
When I sat down to watch the Australian drama Bump on the day of its release, I was excited to hear the term “uce” peppering the dialogue between two teenage characters.
Key points:
- Australian series Bump mirrors contemporary youth culture and the Samoan slang term “uce” is centre stage
- The term “uce”, coined by the Samoan diaspora in New Zealand and the US, is growing in Australian usage
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“Uce” comes from the Samoan word uso, and is used when a man addresses another man as his brother, or a woman addresses another woman as her sister
This slang term of endearment, coined by the Samoan diaspora in the US and New Zealand a couple of decades ago, has made its way across the Tasman and into mainstream conversation.
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