Sunday, August 16, 2015

How to talk Australians

Link to video

3 comments:

rhhardin said...

You can't beat this on Waste Water Treatment.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Get stuffed?

Chip Ahoy said...

Well, here it is.

I've been avoiding expecting the usual. Nothing what I thought. The last bit about the joey growing up to be a mother and the guy who knows the term "joey" but not the term "doe" doesn't bother continuing to argue outwardly but instead sinks to inward concentration of the new dilemma.

It's a poor lesson.

A real lesson will begin, "First, your conversations must be about basic natural things and each conversation contain the words, "air," and especially "water," and always the word, "years."

Resolute in determination to avoid enunciating the "R" in each of these words then the vowel preceding them, and sometimes changed to a different vowel for the purpose, is tortured.

Metaphorically the vowel put upon the torture rack and twisted mercilessly to the point of breaking with tremendous emphasis on the vowel to overcompensate for the missing consonant by 600%.

So "Ai-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-yah
and "Wo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-tah.
and "Ye-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-ahs.

That's the basics.

The next thing is express declaratives as American express interrogatives, an uplift in pitch at the end that connotes inquisition to Americans but is a affectation of charm and agreeableness to Australians. (incidentally, Japanese add "ka" to declarative statements to produce interrogative so there isn't this situation)