Does anyone else find the Australian accent intimidating? (move, places)
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There's something about the Australian accent that I find very annoying. It sounds far too informal. And the pronunciation of words bears absolutely no resemblances to how they're actually spelled.
The Australian accent sounds really British/English to me. Then again, I'm an American and well if I were to hear someone from South Africa or Australia, I would think they're British.
I think Russell Crowe has a nice accent. I know he was born in NZ but his accent is Australian. Not every Australian has a real strong accent like Steve Irwin had. The strong Aussie accent can be a bit annoying but a toned down one I think is nice.
There's something about the Australian accent that I find very annoying. It sounds far too informal. And the pronunciation of words bears absolutely no resemblances to how they're actually spelled.
Sounds cheap and lacks finesse
You find the Aussie accent intimidating because its too informal?
I like the slightly "sing song" cadence and rising inflection that marks the Australian and (some) Canadian accents. In contrast, to me its the end of sentence "down tone" and determined pronunciation of each and every word distinctly that stands out in US, British and Kiwi accents.
Last edited by Richard1098; 01-24-2014 at 02:04 AM..
The Australian accent sounds really British/English to me. Then again, I'm an American and well if I were to hear someone from South Africa or Australia, I would think they're British.
So how do you know if they are from Australia or South Africa?
But point taken; perceptions are interesting.
I remember watching a video of Eleanor Roosevelt for the first time - it took a long time for me to be convinced she was American and born in New York, and not British. Similarly Ted Kennedy sounded like a strange mix of Irish, Scottish and Northern English, as does the mother character in Two and Half Men.
Last edited by Richard1098; 01-24-2014 at 02:41 AM..
The Australian pronunciation that is presented to the world tends to be an exaggeration of how many of us speak. In most of the circles that I move in the accent is there, along with some slang, but nowhere near the overdone stereotypical Aussie.
Most of the way that words are pronounced align more closely with the British pronunciation which one could argue is more "correct" as it originated first........
That's funny, I had 2 people in separate places in the US say that they liked our accent and that is was a "smoother" version of an English accent.
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