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Aussies Used Talk Different

icyfroth — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:27:02 GMT

Watching the Australian Story on Andrew "Boy" Charlton last night it struck me how the newsreaders of the day had a much "plummier"

accent.

Almost but quite quite the "pommy" rrrrrowwnded vowels. Distinctly Orstrelian.

We've relaxed a lot since then and grown into our own accent.

But it's nice to listen to the way the old narrators and newsreaders used to speak in their formal way. God forbid they should use the accent of the broader aussie population

Here's an example:

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lakeland27 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:29:38 GMT

and yet it was used as another weapon against a former PM .

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imastawka — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:36:02 GMT

Forget the accent. Thank you, icy, for the film of Melbourne.

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icyfroth — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:38:17 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Forget the accent. Thank you, icy, for the film of Melbourne.

Yes I picked it at random but it was interesting wasn't it?

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the_bob_delusion — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:41:16 GMT

When I was oversea and talk to other aussies it's interesting how we do talk slightly differently between states. Melbournite accent is a bit more slangish "Dat's fully Sick Mate. Adelaide accent is kinda posh, And QLD accent is more boganish.

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Anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:45:21 GMT

I'll agree with Q-landers being boganish

Living so close to the border, we say stuff like 'it must have been a Q-lander' and inevitably- they are carp drivers 😄

and they do say 'hey' a lot.

lol

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icyfroth — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:04:22 GMT

And how about gorgeous "Boy" Charlton?

Andrew Murray Charlton (12 August 1907 – 10 December 1975), known popularly as Boy Charlton, was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1920s and 1930s who won a gold medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.

"Physiologists had become involved in sport at the time of the Paris Olympics and Charlton's lung capacity was tested with a machine, which blew mercury through a set of bent tubes. They could not believe his lung capacity. It was the highest lung capacity of anyone they had rated at that time - only 16 years of age."

He was like the Phar Lap of swimming

He set five world records and also won a further three silver and one bronze medal in his Olympic career.

Yet refused to go professional, instead chose to live his life on the land he loved.

His son, Murray Charlton, said on ABC's Australian Story, "...Probably smoked up until the last five years of his death, but he had emphysema, so really, once he got emphysema, he couldn't even smoke.

Er, that was the irony of it. And he yeah, it was certainly what killed him in the end. I mean, yeah. Which was, I thought, was very sad, coming from a world champion, to die of cigarettes.

It was very sad, I thought. It's like the gods… I mean, if you're a wonderful artist, they usually take your sight away. And I think that's probably what they did with him, in that they took these wonderful lungs away with cigarettes."

Phwoar!

Apparently the movie talent scouts were all after him like Johnny Weissmueller who was the original Tarzan, but he declined. Didn't want to be filmed running around after crocodiles and monkeys lol.

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kennedia_nigricans — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:04:37 GMT

mmmhhh posh errhhh you have NEVER been to port adelaide have you?

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icyfroth — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:06:30 GMT

@kennedia_nigricans wrote:
mmmhhh posh errhhh you have NEVER been to port adelaide have you?

no. but visiting Adelaide is on my bucket list

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kennedia_nigricans — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:09:52 GMT

the accent in port adelaide is so strong that even my hubby (english is his first language) can't understand what they say.

and it's certainly NOT posh PMSL

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icyfroth — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:11:51 GMT

Looking forward to it.

Can't be much different to Western Sydney.

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lakeland27 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:14:59 GMT

it was a no go zone when i was a teenager .. south road was the mason -dixon line.

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freshwater-2 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:39:23 GMT

Icy, back in those days the sound recording, and microphones were very different from what they are today.

The tended to accentuate the accent,, making the oz accent hard to understand,

Most of the newsreaders, etc. were chosen for their Southern English accents which were easy to understand.

Even the early days of tv here they did the same.

With the change in techology, there is no hollow bounce back, and makes our accent easy to understand.

I must say that when I returned to Australia after 17 years away I had difficulty in understanding some of the aircraft cabin crew.

Although I deliberatey made the effort to keep my Australian accent I had grown accustomed to the many USA accents.

No matter how educated you are, and how well you speak....the Australian accent if quite strong and very individual

I love it !!

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lind9650 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:12:38 GMT

In 1964 when I came to Victoria, I had to go to a Police Station for some personal things. The Officer asked me where I came from, and I told him the country in Europe I migrated from. No - he said - I mean here in Australia. When I told him I lived in Coober Pedy for the last four years, he nodded his head and sid; "I thought so. Central Australians speak much slower than the rest of us."

Even today, if anyone is a fast talker, I can hardly follow their conversation.

Yes, even Aussies have dialects.

What we Victorians call a suitcase, in NSW it is a Port. I could go on with other expressions, but It would take all night.

Erica 😉

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boris1gary — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:04:02 GMT

Erica, maybe because it's so hot.

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boris1gary — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:08:03 GMT

did anyone see russell crowe, it was on some american interview show, he was saying that australians don't open their mouths very wide while talking and this is because of the flies, he got the interviewer to try it and he sounded just like an australian.

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buzzlightyearsgirlfriend — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:11:44 GMT

It appears some Australians also use grammar different.

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kilroy_is_here — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:43:21 GMT

There is actually 8 different dialects in Australia

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acacia_pycnantha — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:51:10 GMT

Accents may be, but dialects?

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lyndal1838 — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:38:28 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
What we Victorians call a suitcase, in NSW it is a Port. I could go on with other expressions, but It would take all night.

Erica 😉

That is very generalised Erica. I lived for 21 years in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and have lived for 44 years and counting in a south eastern suburb of Sydney and never have I heard a suitcase called a port.

What part of NSW were you referring to?