Samoan slang enters Australian mainstream, fuels interest in Polynesian culture, language – ABC News

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
• “Uce” comes from the Samoan word uso, and is used when a man addresses another man as his brother, or a woman…

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