OT And we call all of this English?

[rob101]

for starters gayle that "sydney" person that you linked to sounds like the australian equilavent of a red neck.

where as the chick from brisbane sounds normal
as does this dude from sydney http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_languag...&speakerid=525
or this guy from melbourne
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_languag...&speakerid=140


please don't assume we talk like that other dude from sydney, and please if one day i do sound like that guy someone please feel free to kill me so i can't have children who will butcher the language like that yokel

[Gayle]

for starters gayle that "sydney" person that you linked to sounds like the australian equilavent of a red neck.

where as the chick from brisbane sounds normal
as does this dude from sydney http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_languag...&speakerid=525
or this guy from melbourne
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_languag...&speakerid=140


please don't assume we talk like that other dude from sydney, and please if one day i do sound like that guy someone please feel free to kill me so i can't have children who will butcher the language like that yokel

Hey, I don't have a problem with rednecks. Did you listen to Arkansas? That could be my mother. And some people in this country can't understand our fellow countrymen/women if they have heavy southern accents.

But thanks for the clarification about Syndey. I have probably meet 10 Aussies since I moved to California and none sounded like the Sydney guy. To my ear, Aussie English sounds flatter and broader than British English. Hubby and I thought the Sydney clip sounded like Cockney English.

When we were in the London airport about 10 years ago, a woman with a Cockney accent came up to us, handed us literature, and said some that to us was about as intelligible as *%#$*^%#@$%#. After the 3rd repetion, I was able to understand her to say "Take a ponder on this." My husband never could make what came out of her mouth sound like words. I thought it was pretty funny.

Even if you Aussies speak "normal" English, you still have all that slang.

[rob101]

Even if you Aussies speak "normal" English, you still have all that slang.

i didn't mean we speak "normal" english i meant that those other clips were more representative of "normal" Australian English. and yes we do have slang.