#Australian accent

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

pt II australia but i've never been there

I didn't even have to wait for y'all's responses on part I to make this because Australia is WILDING. As per usual, salutations to Arthur's grandmother's boyfriend Brian.

Everything remaining that I know about Australia:

There was an emu war. There were many emu casualties, and no human ones, but the emus won anyway. Sun Tzu is making way for the emus.

That was the only research I did on the emu wars, but as someone who met a few emus once, they were very lovely to me and very soft to pet. They also were very jabby. One of them looked deeply concerned as they looked at me, I believe they thought I was a deformed emu. I am on the winning side of the war.

During Christmas, Santa does not have a sleigh. He has a surfboard, and he does slay.

There are a lot of animals. Many have no placenta, as I recall from biology. Due to the nature of the continental drift and geographical isolation, Australian marsupials evolved separately from placental mammals, and were not wiped out by invading species. Due to convergent evolution, there are also analogous species between the placental mammals and the marsupials.

What just happened I'm sorry deep science trauma was unearthed. The point is, a lot of animals. A kangaroo is probably in your backyard. A koala just stole your girlfriend. An alligator murdered your classmate. It just happens.

KOOKOOBURRA SITTING ON THE OLD GUM TREE MERRY MERRY SOMETHING SOMETHING idk I was 3 when my mum sang me that.

The internet is awful. Rumours are that the local snake ate it.

Australia is very very pretty, I know this because of an Australian Tourism Department ad that I saw when I was 12 and had cable TV.

You must not forget your Hat. It's like the three little kittens song, but with the Hat instead of mittens.

The Wibbles are a thing. I thought they were a band. Spotify said no. I no longer know what they are.

Crocodile Dundee is a thing. I saw him in Snoopy/Peanuts.

Steve Irvin met his wife in an animal area and his daughter met her husband in an animal area. I don't know anything more these lovely folks, or what the animal area was, I'm afraid.

There is a cake with white stripes that is the Best for Birthdays.

The accent is beautiful, but I admit for years I couldn't differentiate it from British and American accents as a child because to me it sounded like the lovechild of them both and it made me very confused.

Uh, Australia exists.

Yeah, no, that's all I've got. Love to the Australian maggots.

[godinvent]

“OMFG British people call French fries chips” that’s not the important part WHAT DO YOU MEAN BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE SPELL JEWELRY “JEWELLERY”

[randomtheidiot]

“Most Attractive Accent A Man Can Have” quiz.

Vote for the most attractive accent that a man can have! This will be part of a series and I’ll be using it to do something cool, so keep watch!

If you don’t like men, pretend that you do for however long it takes for you to put your votes in. Then go back to kissing girls, kissing others or kissing nobody in particular.

Note that I’m not taking regional dialects of certain countries into account. Many of these countries are being watered down because I doubt the average Tumblr user is smart enough to point out half the places here on a map.

Now, tell me honestly…

EDIT: To those of you who are asking “what about this country???” There is a limit to how many poll answers I can put down. I intentionally left that country out because the accents there are more obscure and I wanted to make sure I got all the big, well known ones. In hindsight, I probably should’ve made an “other” category, but I’m too fucking tired to care and if I did make an “other” category, I’d have to go through every single comment and reblog to see what “other” means for each person and it just wouldn’t be worth it.

[karihighman]

Luke’s Australian accent >>>> also Jessy is the real MVP for recording these haha 😀

[hasellia]

So apparently, as an Aussie, you can't use the word "busting" online because it's been corrupted to mean something else. It now joins the ranks of "lolly" (as in lollipop, used to refer to candy in general), as Australian cultural lexicons forbidden by the internet. At least we gave the world "selfie," though.

This, however, still pales in comparison to what the internet has done to the African American Vernacular English dialect (this is where "rizz", "Karen", "woke", "drip", "gyatt" and many other modern internet slang have been appropriated from). Or how just anything related to the Scottish dialect of English is used as an unserious joke.

Back in my day, we made up our own nonsense words instead of stealing words we don't understand and insisting it never had any value in the first place.

The hegemonic soft power that white USAmerica has over the english language, even through the World Wide Web, is so damn infuriating sometimes.

[sapphicshart]

joke for australians

courteney cox: paul vault bar: yes

[chuckvsthemovie2-blog]

Yvonne Strahovski on'The Late Late Show' Craig Ferguson asks if Her Last...

Yvonne Strahovski on'The Late Late Show' Craig Ferguson asks if Her Last Name is ScottIsh 😂

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[themf-scholar]

Hey guys did you know I’m in love with Poppy Li

Cause I am

[shellingtons-failed-driving-test]

I like both, but the Aussie accent fits her surfer vibe better. I think that if she's not Aussie the love for surfing seems way more random. That's just my opion, though.

[birds-are-really-nice]

I consume too much American media, I was in the grocery store the other day and heard people talking in an Australian accent and I was like “oh cool, Australians!” But then I realised I’m Australian. I live in Australia. This took place in Australia. I have an Australian accent too. :/

[acrowseye]

part 2 of my experiment: what english-speaking country are you from, what region and what do you call the following images? if you don't know what the first image is please try to guess i'd love to see it

[musicprincess1990]

Y'all, I loooooove when we get patients at work that are from other countries! Where I live, most people either have the "standard" US accent, or they have the corn-fed hick accent (which I slip into once in a while, see the "y'all" at the beginning of this post).

But today, we had a patient come in who is from Australia. I. LOVE. THAT. ACCENT. And, bonus, he is also super nice and friendly! But then, I have never met an Aussie I haven't liked! (I've also only met two or three Aussies total, but that's beside the point.) He's a sweet old guy, and I definitely look forward to seeing him more, and hearing him talk more! 😆

[leche-flandom]

Had a loud and confusing convo with my little monster that went on for way too long because I forgot to consider the context.

Her, for the 7th time: But what is an ornor?

Me: I mean, you tell me kid, I've never heard of that word before.

Y'all.

It was "OH NO."

She was asking what an "oh no" was after watching an hour of Bluey.

[chiegetseven]

Amy Walker - 21 Accents

This video is over a decade old and I can't testify to the quality of her non-English speaking accents, but the differentiation of the UK ones, American ones, and the Australian vs. New Zealand ones is great. The little riff she does about the trans-Atlantic accent always gets me:

"Oh hello, my name is Amy Walker and I'm an actress and a writer and a singer and a dancer and I was asked here today to give you an example of the trans-Atlantic accent I was trained in in 1945."

[netscapenavigator-official]

I always found it funny how the accent you use when saying “au naur” got called “speaking in cursive” or the “indie girl accent.” Like, y’all, it was always, and still is, supposed to be a mockery of the Australian accent. It doesn’t need a new name. It’s just making fun of the Aussie accent. It always has.