On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled:

"Yowie" wrote in message
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:30:42 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

"Yowie" had some very
interesting
things to say about "go down cellar":

I'm remembering when I rang a very fancy hotel in Minneapolis to
talk to
my
friend who was away on business. I used to think I didn't have a
particularly strong Australian accent, but the receptionist
simply
couldn't
understand me until I started speaking in my fake American accent.
For a
hotel that would surely get guests from all over the world, I
would have
thought my accent would not present a problem, but perhaps
Australian
sounds
*particularly* strange to American ears.

Not to me, it doesn't, and I happen to like the Aussie accent. I
like
the sound. :-)

I lived with one for quite a few years. You get used to it.
Sometimes you can even understand it. :P

But I have to say that when I was hearing news reports on NPR about
the recent Australian election, I was almost jolted out of bed by
the
strength of Howard's ("Haaaaaaaad") and Latham's accents. 'Strewth!

Both speak with quite an "educated" city accents (except for Mr
Howards
characteristic "aaah" and "umm"s) and would have most likely taken
eloquotion(sp?) lessons. The way the speak is similar to our news
anchor
people, which have to speak "correctly" (for an Aussie, anyway).

The further you go from the cities, the stronger the accent and slower
the
drawl. People from Far North Queensland, Northern Territory and the
northern
bit of Western Australia have much stronger accents than us urbanites,
who
in comparison speak very fast and "clip" our words.

Yowie

On my first trip to Australia, I didn't notice any difference in accents
in the various places I visited. On my second trip, I noticed some
differences, as well as different speech patterns. For instance, most
places I went, the usual greeting was "G'day". In Darwin, it was,
"Howaya?" I noticed a few times, though, that if one Aussie greeted
another with "Howaya?", the other usually responded by saying "G'day".

Anyone say Hayagoin?


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