icyfroth
Community Member
In response to kennedia_nigricans

on ‎22-04-2014 08:11 PM

Looking forward to it.

 

Can't be much different to Western Sydney.

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lakeland27
Community Member
In response to icyfroth

on ‎22-04-2014 08:14 PM

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

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freshwater-2
Community Member

on ‎22-04-2014 08:39 PM

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
Community Member
In response to freshwater-2

on ‎22-04-2014 10:12 PM

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
Community Member
In response to lind9650

on ‎22-04-2014 11:04 PM

Erica, maybe because it's so hot. Woman Happy

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boris1gary
Community Member
In response to boris1gary

on ‎22-04-2014 11:08 PM

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.Woman LOL 

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buzzlightyearsgirlfriend
Community Member

on ‎22-04-2014 11:11 PM

It appears some Australians also use grammar different. 



“I’ve got my purse and my gift and my gloves and my selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor and my monoamine oxidase inhibitor and I have my anti-anxiety disco biscuits and I am ready to go. I am really ready!” Sheila

kilroy_is_here
Community Member
In response to buzzlightyearsgirlfriend

on ‎23-04-2014 12:43 AM

There is actually 8 different dialects in Australia
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acacia_pycnantha
Community Member
In response to kilroy_is_here

on ‎23-04-2014 12:51 AM

Accents may be, but dialects?

 

 

 

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lyndal1838
Honored Contributor
In response to lind9650

on ‎23-04-2014 01:38 AM

@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?

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