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Date Posted: 03:06:45 08/03/07 Fri
Author: Stardoe
Subject: Cool!!!
In reply to: SMH 's message, "We don't really have a drawl" on 12:44:45 07/19/07 Thu

The old Baltimore accent is very cool from what I could make for it. That crown=crayon is a problem here with our kids. My youngest says crown for crayon. Perhaps she should go live in Baltimore. LOL. Very interesting. I'd love to go to an accent convention and listen to all the REAL raconteurs of each accent from each place. Here we all talk the same apart from those very slight differences I mentioned previously. There is no real difference and unless someone is a real Queenslander you can't ever tell where someone comes from here, unlike with America or england. Very cool.We do, however, have an accent where foreigners who have conglomerated in the western suburbs of sydney have a westy accent and a wog accent. Anyone with a greek, italian, middle eastern background talks differently than the rest of us.

Also the aborigines have their own accent and way of talking which is on a spectrum of strength. I have recently been working with some aboriginal boys and they have the talk. Sometimes I can't understand them and have to ask them to repeat what they say coz they talk so fast and there's an accent. And the grammar is all wrong for standard english. One boy was looking for papers and another teacher said they are there and he said "Where day is?" for where are they? None of these boys know their traditional language but have been brought up to speak english in such a way that past people have. Not all of them talk this way but they do to an extent. It's hard teaching them to write at school because they don't know standard english and how to write in it. They say things like "We was going to the shop." Or they'll say "Pass me that there pen there." They will often say a name and put he or she after it. They don't use plurals especially in writing. NO S's at all on the end of words. So there 's a big push to make them realise that there is home talk and standard talk and they have to learn standard talk and writing in order to be accepted by city [white or foreign]bosses who interview them for jobs etc. Most Sydney people [including employers] would never have seen an aborigine let alone spoken to one and there's no way their lingo would be accepted in that context.

It's all so interesting. I enjoy learning about accents and languages. etc.

Stardoe.

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