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I love an Australian accent (i.e., that accent that we in the States would recognize as Australian). Whenever I hear them count (thirdeen, fourdeen) it makes me smile with affection. But most accents from the UK just annoy me, especially coming from girls. Just throwing that out there.
Manchu wrote:I love an Australian accent (i.e., that accent that we in the States would recognize as Australian). Whenever I hear them count (thirdeen, fourdeen) it makes me smile with affection. But most accents from the UK just annoy me, especially coming from girls. Just throwing that out there.
Most of us don't actually sound like that. That's the outback/bogan accent you're hearing.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
It's highly diverse. True, a fair few Australians sound like that, but the stronger accents like the one Steve Irwin put on for TV aren't particularly prevalent. I've been told I sound more English than Australian, probably because my mother is English, but there are a lot of people I know who sound like me.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Well, just to be clear that cute girl has a cute accent. As opposed to "English" accents, as I've heard them (not claiming there is only one or that I'm an expert).
This girl, for example, has an accent that starts to annoy me by the end:
Funny that she says American accents on girls are annoying.
Automatically Appended Next Post: (Let me just be clear that I've never met a Britisher--and I mean met IRL, not on dakka--that I didn't like. I just don't like their accents.)
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Speaking of accents, I have a friend who was born in Canada and has a Canadian father, but he sounds perfectly Australian. His brother, who's a year younger, has the most obvious and annoying Canadian accent I've ever heard.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
the_ferrett wrote:Hmmmm. I can't work out what our national movie is:
Crocodile Dundee or Pracilla, Queen of the desert.
'Muriel's Wedding' for the bogans
'Wolf Creek' for the lovely knock about bush characters
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Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
Several mates have told me about The Castle, but I haven't seen it myself.
Oh well. The End of another fantastic day in Aus. Gotta be heading of soon, I've got the First Day of School tommorow, and it's my final year. Now what I do actually matters.
On the other hand, those blokes on the West side of this country are probably just starting to live it up.
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The south, too, EF! My holidays don't end until the middle of next month, so it's smooth sailing for a few more weeks.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Cheese Elemental wrote:I thought this thread was about Australia.
I thought this thread was about aged bat eating rock stars who shuffle about mumbling incoherently...
Ditto.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Australia's national movie? Why, 'Chopper' of course! Awesome film.
@Manchu - I absolutely know what you mean - All of the Americans I've met have been lovely, but that accent is....unfortunate, let's say. Maybe it's a cultural thing - Americans think our accent sounds snobby and condescending, whilst many Brits think American accents sound a little...thick. Sorry, couldn't find a nice way to put that, and it certainly isn't true (in either case), but it's a matter of perception, not fact. 'Two nations divided by a common language', and all that.
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the_ferrett wrote:Hmmmm. I can't work out what our national movie is:
Crocodile Dundee or Pracilla, Queen of the desert.
'Muriel's Wedding' for the bogans
'Wolf Creek' for the lovely knock about bush characters
Actually it is Dogs in Space. A cracking little movie.
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Manchu wrote:Wait, I don't mean Crocodile Dundee or his IRL counterpart Steve Irwin. Do you not sound like this:
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The ironic thing about this video is that she never spoke to an American. She spoke to someone in the Philippines. People in the Philippines speak English with an American accent as that is where they learn English from. The person she spoke to was speaking slowly not because s/he was American, but because s/he doesn't speak English as well as a natural speaker would.
How do I know this? She said she got a call from Optus, her internet provider. Optus does not have any call centres in the US. They have call centres in the Philippines though - I know this because I control the lives of some 190 of them every week. So yeah, her bemusment at the American accent is directed incorrectly. Really she found the Philippine interpretation of the American accent amusing.
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Albatross wrote:Australia's national movie? Why, 'Chopper' of course! Awesome film.
@Manchu - I absolutely know what you mean - All of the Americans I've met have been lovely, but that accent is....unfortunate, let's say. Maybe it's a cultural thing - Americans think our accent sounds snobby and condescending, whilst many Brits think American accents sound a little...thick. Sorry, couldn't find a nice way to put that, and it certainly isn't true (in either case), but it's a matter of perception, not fact. 'Two nations divided by a common language', and all that.
A heavy Southern Drawl or barrio accent would probably kill you then.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Middlesbrough might not be the best place to live in the world, but Newcastle isnt any better. I come from middlesbrough, and am proud of it. But I dont have to advertise it, because I dont have an accent that screams "Beer swilling moron" wherever I go.
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It speaks volumes about middlesbrough when the best thing they could come up with to go in the mayfair slot on their version of monopoly was the football ground.
People from Newcastle just sound like Scottish people with their brains bashed out.
And monopoly? What the feth does that prove?
Middlesbrough has a wonderful location right on the crest of the Cleveland hills. Its close to Whitby, has a beach less than 5 miles away from it, has the insitute of modern art with all its picasso's, the legenday Transporter Bridge, The Miniature Matterhorn of Roseberry Topping (can see it from my bedroom window) and 30 pubs within half a mile of the train-station.
Newcastle has brain-dead dole walling toothless women beltfeeding their 20 stone school-children micro-chips and a lump of scrap iron shaped like something with wings on a hill next to a motorway.
Middlesbrough is a far nicer town than that gak pit city of yours. Ive seen Biker grove.
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
Perhaps we should play a game of 'how many polls can you find which place middlesbrough as britains worst city'
Before you get going on slagging of newcastle as if I care, I don't. Unlike you seem to, I don't bear some personal connection with the city I was born in as if it was my own brother. On the contrary, I see a dump: I see a dump. Nothing personal.
whatwhat wrote:Perhaps we should play a game of 'how many polls can you find which place middlesbrough as britains worst city'
Before you get going on slagging of newcastle as if I care, I don't. Unlike you seem to, I don't bear some personal connection with the city I was born in as if it was my own brother. On the contrary, I see a dump: I see a dump. Nothing personal.
Yeah i was only fething about like mate, its not like slagging off a town i was born is akin to shagging my mother.
And regards the "worst" city poll, its fair to say that 99% of the people who watch "location location" have never actually been and are simply deciding it is "rough" from the comfort of their bedrooms.
Here is a classic funny one you may have seen....
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
If you read that from me making a comical stereotype about a Viz style Geordie housewife then i apologise.
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
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