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You're not alone. A friend of mine says the same thing - she can't even look at a photo of one. I'm not phobic about snakes - I quite like them, and we don't have very poisonous ones here in Finland - but I am arachnophobic. Can't even look at a picture of a... one of those... with the eight legs. shudder I sat with my eyes shut in the movie theatre for the last part of LOTR (thanks again to Yowie for telling me when to shut them and when it was safe to open them). -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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You're not alone. A friend of mine says the same thing - she can't even look at a photo of one. I'm not phobic about snakes - I quite like them, and we don't have very poisonous ones here in Finland - but I am arachnophobic. Can't even look at a picture of a... one of those... with the eight legs. shudder I sat with my eyes shut in the movie theatre for the last part of LOTR (thanks again to Yowie for telling me when to shut them and when it was safe to open them). -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:51:55 +0100, "Christina Websell"
yodeled: "Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed Yea-- I should have added that it's only Americans who seem to mistake Australians for English. English people NEVER mistake Aussies for English-- and Aussies NEVER mistake Poms for Aussies. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:51:55 +0100, "Christina Websell"
yodeled: "Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed Yea-- I should have added that it's only Americans who seem to mistake Australians for English. English people NEVER mistake Aussies for English-- and Aussies NEVER mistake Poms for Aussies. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:51:55 +0100, "Christina Websell"
yodeled: "Yoj" wrote in message news:XjVed.9581$around the US recently Actually, the most common Aussie accent bears a definite resemblance to the English Cockney accent. There is also the fact that a large number of Aussies came from England originally, and never lost their English accent. Joy Not so. No Australians I've even met sounded like they were English, and I should know. Only English people sound like they're English. Tweed Yea-- I should have added that it's only Americans who seem to mistake Australians for English. English people NEVER mistake Aussies for English-- and Aussies NEVER mistake Poms for Aussies. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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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 Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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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 Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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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 Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:36:07 GMT, "Yoj"
yodeled: "Yowie" wrote in message ... "Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... 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? Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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