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To: count-your-change

ROFL!

I wonder how you will butcher Aussie English to size...


15 posted on 10/26/2012 3:47:06 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett

I think Aussies are still in the “Cowboy Myth” stage. Only for them it’s the Outback instead of the West. Just as the hardliving cowpoke had his own lingo so does Aussie English.

For example: Mite (either flea like or friend but not wife)
or Bier (either a stand for a corpse or the brewed drink).

To most words the voice must be raised slightly at the end to produce the distinctive sound of Aussiespeak. Americans tend to drop the voice at the end of words, not every time but more often than not.


20 posted on 10/26/2012 4:16:34 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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