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... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Yowie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 22/10/04 |
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... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Yowie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 22/10/04 |
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... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Yowie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 22/10/04 |
"Yowie" wrote in message ... "Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Yowie Ditto for the Canucks. Here we do it because of the black flies in the rural areas - hence, Tranna, my home town. When Conan O'Brien originated his late-night show here we enjoyed how he called it "Toe-rahn-toe!" with all the syllables. |
"Yowie" wrote in message ... "Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Yowie Ditto for the Canucks. Here we do it because of the black flies in the rural areas - hence, Tranna, my home town. When Conan O'Brien originated his late-night show here we enjoyed how he called it "Toe-rahn-toe!" with all the syllables. |
"Yowie" wrote in message ... "Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Yowie Ditto for the Canucks. Here we do it because of the black flies in the rural areas - hence, Tranna, my home town. When Conan O'Brien originated his late-night show here we enjoyed how he called it "Toe-rahn-toe!" with all the syllables. |
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(unless someone really does want soft drink mixed into their Scotch and Soda ^_^) Scotch??????????????? Single malt, please. I like Oban. Neat. :) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com DH cringes when people even think about desecrating a single malt (blended scotches are not to be tolerated) ;) His favorite is Glenmorangie. I can never remember if it's the port or sherry finish that he likes best but the current bottle is 15yr Rare Malt...... smooooth :) -- Elise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves) dragonandthistle at snet dot net |
(unless someone really does want soft drink mixed into their Scotch and Soda ^_^) Scotch??????????????? Single malt, please. I like Oban. Neat. :) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com DH cringes when people even think about desecrating a single malt (blended scotches are not to be tolerated) ;) His favorite is Glenmorangie. I can never remember if it's the port or sherry finish that he likes best but the current bottle is 15yr Rare Malt...... smooooth :) -- Elise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves) dragonandthistle at snet dot net |
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:34:53 +1000, "Yowie"
yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:56 +1000, "Yowie" yodeled: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +1300, Bev yodeled: Cheryl Perkins wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: The former Mr. T (an Aussie) had people remark to him that it must be cool to live in a country from where you could drive all over Europe. :P I've heard that many people think that Australia and Austria are the same place, which would certainly lead to that kind of confusion! -- Cheryl Even funnier are the people who think that Australia and New Zealand are part of the same country or people who think New Zealand is a part of Holland or Alaska. When we travelled around the US recently few people could pick our accents. They always began by thinking we were English, no, Australian then, nooo, then they gave up :) Bev "New Zealand: The Canada of Australia" ;) Forget New Zealand (I don't mean really)! That's beyond most of our ken. In fact it was beyond my Aussie Mr. T's ken, too, but I think that was on purpose. :P I don't know it it is because I am so familiar with "down-under" accents that I don't see why most Americans mistake them for English. But I suppose that there are so many English accents that they think that those just might be a couple more. I guess its what you are used to hearing. If you hear lots of Aussie accents, and a fair few Kiwi accents, you can pick the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi one, and even the different Aussie accents (eg, difference between a Melbourne accent and a Sydney accent). But if you don't here alot, you would probably hear them as similar. For example, I, as an Aussie, cannot tell the diffence between the accent of Bridget, Hazel, Ginger-Lyn or Pam Shirk, and only barely recognise the difference between those four and Grace's. However, they all come from different parts of the USA and I'm sure that to their ears, their accents would be quite distinct. I'm also sure that all Americans would find my imitation of an American accent just as painful as us Aussies find imitations of our Aussie accent [except for Meryl Streep, she got it almost 100% right]. And an American imitating an Australian accent sounds different to Aussie ears than a Brit imitating an Aussie accent. I guess when imitating a different accent, you accentuate the differences between the other accent and your own, which is why they sound different. Yowie I once startled an unsuspecting Aussie here out of his socks by pronouncing Canberra correctly. ;) swelling with pride Thats Can-bra, like Mel-b'n (Melbourne) and Briz-b'n (Brisbane) . After living many years with a man from Melbn, I still get a little jarred when I hear my countrypeople say (as they will) Mel-bourne. ;) The principle of the Aussie accent is that the longer you leave you mouth open, the more likely it is that a fly will get in. So shorten everything that can be shortened, and what can't be, mumble the last syllable or syllables. Carn! ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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