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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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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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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:53:07 GMT, "CatNipped"
wrote: "Bev" wrote in message ... 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 -- The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. Americans are notorious for their lack of knowledge of geography, myself included! ; I can't remember the percentage off the top of my head, but I remember reading that a surprising number of Americans were surprised to learn that New Mexico is part of the USA, and Spanish is not the first language. I don't really know that that story is true, but if it is maybe it's a good thing that the perventage of people who take part in elections is so low. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:53:07 GMT, "CatNipped"
wrote: "Bev" wrote in message ... 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 -- The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. Americans are notorious for their lack of knowledge of geography, myself included! ; I can't remember the percentage off the top of my head, but I remember reading that a surprising number of Americans were surprised to learn that New Mexico is part of the USA, and Spanish is not the first language. I don't really know that that story is true, but if it is maybe it's a good thing that the perventage of people who take part in elections is so low. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:53:07 GMT, "CatNipped"
wrote: "Bev" wrote in message ... 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 -- The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. Americans are notorious for their lack of knowledge of geography, myself included! ; I can't remember the percentage off the top of my head, but I remember reading that a surprising number of Americans were surprised to learn that New Mexico is part of the USA, and Spanish is not the first language. I don't really know that that story is true, but if it is maybe it's a good thing that the perventage of people who take part in elections is so low. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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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 Now that's weird. I am terrified of snakes. I have an unfounded, neurotic fear that they are going to chase me. But I like sp--- sorry, those eight-legged critters. I have a beautiful one on my porch overhang. Gorgeous yellow and black color. It's an argiope, I've watched her all summer lure flies and such in her web, then ZING! She wraps them up in thread lightning fast. Grandaddies I don't mind either, or those jumpy ones that are always in the flower bed. I can ID a black widow or a fiddleback, they're the only ones I squash. Sherry |
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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 Now that's weird. I am terrified of snakes. I have an unfounded, neurotic fear that they are going to chase me. But I like sp--- sorry, those eight-legged critters. I have a beautiful one on my porch overhang. Gorgeous yellow and black color. It's an argiope, I've watched her all summer lure flies and such in her web, then ZING! She wraps them up in thread lightning fast. Grandaddies I don't mind either, or those jumpy ones that are always in the flower bed. I can ID a black widow or a fiddleback, they're the only ones I squash. Sherry |
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