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    I have always thought the Aus-try-lian accent was typical. I hear it on the radio - I heard it last night in an election commentary.
    However, I don't think I have ever heard it in AW vids. Is it a regional [or class] variation?
    g

    #2
    I can't really tell the accent all the time because I'm used to it, but when you hear the Australian accent and another accent in the same vid you can definitely tell.

    All around Australia our accent is pretty much the same, although I think people from the country have a slightly different accent.

    Dave

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      #3
      Erm, try listening to Ana (who isn't even a native-born Aussie) for a fine example of the AQI. Most of the other Australian girls on the site have - to my British ears - distinctively Australian accents - though some are broader than others (Mya comes to mind).

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        #4
        Originally posted by pjay
        Erm, try listening to Ana (who isn't even a native-born Aussie) for a fine example of the AQI. Most of the other Australian girls on the site have - to my British ears - distinctively Australian accents - though some are broader than others (Mya comes to mind).
        I wasn't suggesting that they didn't have Australian accents. I was referring to the particular one in which A is pronounced like I. It seems to be particularly prevalent with guest speakers on ABC.
        g

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          #5
          Talking of Aussie, I’ve noticed that Hubby has joined another porn site!!! Hmmmmm abstinence didn’t last long!!!!!!!! Seems to be another Aussie site devoted to “the girl next door but not the sort you would introduce to your mother” and er…. also some girls who could be your mother!!!!! Only had a brief butchers but some of the women are distinctly Chav-like (That’s a Brit term)

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            #6
            Originally posted by Mrs Roops
            Hubby has joined another porn site ... some of the women are distinctly Chav-like (That’s a Brit term)
            Translation: 'chav' = 'girl-in-the-next-trailer' as opposed to girl-next-door.

            I should have thought that Roops would prefer a site where the models are all scions of the aristocracy. Now there's an idea!

            - P

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              #7
              Originally posted by adamsgcan
              I wasn't suggesting that they didn't have Australian accents.
              No-one but an Aussie could pronounce the phrase "verjoiner leerier" quite like an aw.com model. (And I'm sure Luxman would remember which model it was.)
              Last edited by Philos; 4 November 2004, 03:40 PM.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Darth Dave
                All around Australia our accent is pretty much the same, although I think people from the country have a slightly different accent.
                There are some regional variations between states, listed here. However, over time, these differences are starting to blur; mainly because the majority of TV shows are produced in Sydney or Melbourne.

                Most common variation you'll probably find is the "a" vs "ae" pronounciation; this often crops up from time to time in party/group conversation topics (it did for me the other day). Here's some examples:
                • Chance => either "chaance" (flattened, lengthened 'a' like american) or "charnce" (rounded 'a' more like english accent)
                • Australia => either "'straayya" (flat lengthy middle 'a', rushed leading 'aus' and 'l') or "Ostrarlya" (rounded middle 'a', with more time spent on the other bits)
                I'm no linguist expert, I might add!

                My accent generally follows the former, with a few small exceptions. However my brother generally follows the latter; although my dad is Australian-born, my mum is a New Zealander, which probably lent some influence.

                As most of you overseas AW members have figured out by now; yes, Steve Irwin is an exception!
                Last edited by Diablo; 5 November 2004, 11:12 AM. Reason: spelling

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                  #9
                  Hi all you aussies
                  I´m one of the oversea AW members (english is not my native language) and I must say that I like the australien accent very much. Spent more than a year in your beautiful country back in ...... huuhh, too long ago. Very glad to be "virtually" back now and oh yes, have to watch more AW videos!
                  And one more thing: I envy you for the upcoming summer overthere, sigh.

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                    #10
                    With the weather we've had the last few days summer feels along way away, can't wait for it to start, although it would be nice to have snow during christmas.

                    Dave

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Diablo
                      Chance => either "chaance" (flattened, lengthened 'a' like american) or "charnce" (rounded 'a' more like english accent)
                      Some English accents. The /a/ pronunciation is typical of RP (received pronunciation) which might be described as the theoretical accent of the theoretical BBC newsreader - or more usefully the accent of the Southern upper-middle classes. The rest of us use /æ/. To put it more clearly, in the North of England and the Midlands the vowel in 'chance' is the same as the vowel in 'cat'. In the South, 'castle' rhymes with 'parcel'; in the North, 'castle' rhymes with 'hassle'.

                      Interestingly, there's a link from the Wikipedia page that Diablo posted to a long page listing differences between numerous different dialects in English. Take all info here with a pinch of salt - the info on the Birmingham accent is plain wrong!

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by pjay
                        the info on the Birmingham accent is plain wrong!
                        It's more like Black Country. As a Wednesbury resident said to a visitor: "Oi doh know how yo ore, nor wheer yow coom fram, but howiver yow ore and wheeriver yow coom fram, yow'm a bloody fuel."
                        Last edited by Philos; 6 November 2004, 05:02 AM.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Philos
                          It's more like Black Country. As a Wednesbury resident said to a visitor: "Oi doh know how yo ore, nor wheer yow coom fram, but howiver yow ore and wheeriver yow coom fram, yow'm a bloody fuel."
                          I'm considering dredging up an Aynoch & Ayli joke, but suspect it would be wasted on the 99.9% of board members who don't live within a ten mile radius of Tipton

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                            #14
                            Tipton! Pearl of the West-Midlands! Standing out from surrounding Dudley, Bilston, Darlaston, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Bloomfield, Burnt-Tree, Dudley Port, and Horseley Heath! Center of gravity to Gospel Oak and Princes End! Refreshed by the Birmingham Canal! Unlocked by the South Staffordshire Railway at Great Bridge and Dudley Port! With its extensive and valuable mines of coal and ironstone!

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Quartz
                              Tipton! Pearl of the West-Midlands! ...Unlocked by the South Staffordshire Railway at Great Bridge and Dudley Port! With its extensive and valuable mines of coal and ironstone!
                              Blimey, Quartz. You appear to have the Tipton Tourist Board's 1947 brochure

                              Sadly, the last mines in the Black Country closed down decades ago and the South Staffs railway was turned into a cycle path around the same time. (There are plans to extend the nascent local tram network along its former route, however). Tipton is nowadays most famous for producing recruits for the Taliban - allegedly.

                              I do feel slightly ashamed, however, that I can't riff on the environs of Rotterdam with any degree of knowledge.

                              Still, as there may be as many as three people here who might get it, a Black Country joke with an Aussie flavour. How's that for serendipity?

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by pjay
                                Blimey, Quartz. You appear to have the Tipton Tourist Board's 1947 brochure

                                1851, to be precise

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                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by Quartz
                                  1851, to be precise
                                  It's amazing how little things have changed in the last 15 decades. Though I believe electricity is now available in the posher parts of the Black Country

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by pjay
                                    I'm considering dredging up an Aynoch & Ayli joke, but suspect it would be wasted on the 99.9% of board members who don't live within a ten mile radius of Tipton
                                    They don't really work in translation. But let's try this on the international set:

                                    Aynuk: Where are you off to Ayli?
                                    Ayli: I'm going up to Bramah's works to see if I can get a job.
                                    Aynuk: There's no jobs there. They've got this bloke called Dry-Bollick Jack, as does the work of ten men.

                                    Then there's the famous one about the whale that Ayli caught in the canal.....

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                                      #19
                                      I guess you had to be there.

                                      And I'm glad I wasn't.

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                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by Philos
                                        Translation: 'chav' = 'girl-in-the-next-trailer' as opposed to girl-next-door.

                                        I should have thought that Roops would prefer a site where the models are all scions of the aristocracy. Now there's an idea!

                                        - P
                                        Actually, despite his ranting elsewhere on the boards, Roops has no airs and graces at all despite his posh background. The fact that he married a council house chav like me is testament to that. Ironically if you want snobbery, then look no further than moi!!!!

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                                          #21
                                          Mrs R, I'm still intrigued by these chav women on Roops' new site of choice. Do they make dildos in a burberry pattern then?

                                          Non-Brits may seek explanation here.

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