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Date Posted: 23:55:58 07/13/07 Fri
Author: Stardoe
Subject: Re: do I talk funny?
In reply to: BDM 's message, "do I talk funny?" on 12:25:49 07/12/07 Thu

I actually think our accents [Aussie and NZ] are decidedly unsexy. I don't think they sound nice at all. My friend in Europe loves hearing me talk and just loves the accent. Can't think why. I love the standard british accent [which many Aussies put on when they think they are posh] I really love Hugh Grant in films and Jude Law. I like that subtlety to their manor as well which adds to the whole attractiveness of them. I have to say I'm a sucker for that suave british type.

I enjoy all the British accents and like to try and guess where people are from. I had a lovely conversation with a book seller for my library last term. He was from Yorkshire and before he left england, he was on the Yorkshire dialect committee. Apparrently there are heaps of accents in that tiny area. Even within the town of York, people know which street you live on by the way you talk. Like Professor 'iggins in Pigmalion. It's like that in europe too but I never knew it was like that in england. He reckons he could pick a bloke here in Australia who basically had lost his Northern English accent but the book seller knew that the bloke was not Australian by the little ways he said certain things. We had a great chat and I wasted alot of time on dialects when I should have been buying books, LOL. As my family watches LIttle Britain, we all do accents all the time for fun. Now that Torchwood is on, we do the Welsh accent too. It's kind of my hobby,,,,,,languages, dialects and accents. It's fun and the kids are into it. I also like picking Canadians out in TV shows too.

People have trouble doing Aussie and NZ accents. It's the diphtongs. I find NZ hard to do. I have to concentrate hard when I talk it. They range in spectrum from like us to very strong NZ. We have a show on here called "The Chasers' War on Everything" These blokes go around doing stuff to prove things right or wrong. It's really funny although they do step over the mark at times. They gate crashed a press interview with the NZ Prime Minster, Helen Clarke. They asked her questions where the answer was always six but she wouldn't answer them because NZs say six as sex. She took it very well and laughed and in the end she said "siiiiiix."

But I still don't think our accents are sexy.

Stardoe

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Replies:

Re: do I talk funny? -- BDM, 07:48:12 07/14/07 Sat
- Don't you hate that? -- Stardoe, 04:50:00 07/19/07 Thu
  - Speaking of accents -- SMH, 10:11:09 07/19/07 Thu
    - Re: Speaking of accents -- BDM, 10:19:32 07/19/07 Thu
      - We don't really have a drawl -- SMH, 12:44:45 07/19/07 Thu
        Cool!!! -- Stardoe, 03:06:45 08/03/07 Fri
  - Gridlock -- BDM, 11:47:28 07/21/07 Sat
    - I"ve always wondered that -- Stardoe, 03:14:43 08/03/07 Fri