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Strine is a word probably invented by Monica Dickens back in the 1970s.
It was meant to show how the Australian accent pronounced "Australian". She wrote a book called "Let's Talk Strine" and it gave a translation of the words Australians used into standard British English.
So when an Australian said they had an "egg nishner" in their "Gloria Soame" this simply meant that they had an air conditioner in their glorious home.
Now whilst the book was an amusing little jibe at the Australian dialect, it highlights a fundamental truth about language, viz, that what one understands as being spoken may not be the same as what the speaker intended to convey.
This happens to a much greater degree when the words are being spoken in a foreign language, especially a language that is thousands of years old.
When we try to read the Bible, we need to discover what the original writers meant to convey, not only the actual words, but the images and the logical frameworks they used as well.
This website is a meagre attempt to contribute something to this mammoth task.

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