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Why do Australians have strange accents?

submitted by UncleDoug to Australia 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 02:22:10 ago (+19/-1)     (pomf2.lain.la)

https://pomf2.lain.la/f/tlx1bwog.mp4

Why don't Australian or New Zealanders sound British? We do, it's an amalgam of British regional accents.


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[ - ] Cantaloupe 6 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 03:30:31 ago (+6/-0)

It's because they are upside down - don't believe it? Bend over in front of someone and ask if you sound Australian

[ - ] Sector2 4 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 03:37:02 ago (+4/-0)

Australians have a uniquely peculiar relationship with language. For example, ask one to name the fast food restaurant with the 'golden arches', or the colloquial term for a member of a motorcycle gang. They're a cute people though.

[ - ] calx 1 point 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 16:54:59 ago (+1/-0)

How to speak Australian: today's lesson is "razor blades."

Say it with me: "Rise up lights." :)

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 17:15:41 ago (+1/-0)

Haha, don't get me started? Every sentence might end up as a question?

[ - ] calx 2 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 23:22:42 ago (+2/-0)

I think you're confusing Australian with Californian.

[ - ] Love240 3 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 03:11:31 ago (+3/-0)

I find videos about these things intriguing for whatever reason. Interesting.

[ - ] dulcima 2 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 08:06:17 ago (+2/-0)

Americans are always mistaking us for poms. See it here even.

And when they aren't doing that, they think South Africans are Aussies...

[ - ] GreenSaint 0 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 08:16:46 ago (+0/-0)

There’s this fighter I like South African guy. If I only heard him talk for a little bit I might think he’s Australian

[ - ] GrayDragon 0 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 08:42:13 ago (+0/-0)

Three decades ago there was South African Dave in the bar I went to. Guy totally sounded like what American's back then would have thought were Aussies.

[ - ] Rowdybme 2 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 07:10:03 ago (+2/-0)

Now explain american accents

[ - ] BaalsDeep 1 point 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 11:43:54 ago (+1/-0)

This is stupid. All British colonies should sound Australian then. Obviously there’s more involved,
Australians never had a political revolution, so they had a linguistic one instead.

[ - ] stillmostlyfriendly 1 point 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 10:28:33 ago (+1/-0)

Same thing happened in the German belt in central Texas.

(I'm told) the German spoken is a melding of all regional German accents, due to the ~40K German immigrants in the mid 1800's from all over Germany. And, the Texas German language uses words / phrases that were common in Germany ~200 years ago, but are no longer used in modern German.

[ - ] 2plus2equals5 0 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 11:44:12 ago (+0/-0)

Is he blogging from Africa?

[ - ] GrayDragon 0 points 10 monthsJul 24, 2024 08:25:20 ago (+0/-0)

Because you're on an island?