literally another aussie in london

i don’t go UP

Something wonderful happened to me in a conversation about accents.

I was told I don’t go up at the end of every SENTENCE.

Like many Oztrayans DO.

People get very annoyed by THIS.

Quite RIGHTLY.

Sorry.

Apparently in England there used to be 400 odd accents, I have no idea if that is true, and now there is apparently like 40, not sure if that is true either.

Australia doesn’t have many accents.

It’s a good thing i think, in England, you can sort of classify someone based on how they speak, in Australia, that is much harder to do.

North Queensland definitely has the New Texas drawl, so if you hear that you can tune out for a while without missing much.

Adelaide sounds more like New Zealand, or they just say Bro a lot, so you listen to them, but never quite work out what they are saying.

Bogan (Australian for Chav) is an accent, but it doesn’t seem to matter where you come from for that one, but once you speak like a bogan, you are a bogan for life, even if you are a rocket doctor or sumting.

The other accent that is very prevalent to me is the European Australian accent.

People from Greek, Croation, Italian and those type of eurpean type backgrounds have a very special accent.

It doesn’t seem to matter where you were born for this accent, it just matters where your parents or grandparents were born.

The sound of that accent is part Crocodile Dundee and part Deniro in raging bull, and has earned alot of comedians money when they weren’t that funny.

Like the Irish.

I have always wondered why Australians don’t have more accents, but I haven’t thought about it very hard, couldn’t be bothered really.

September 19, 2008 Posted by Jrod | living in london | accents | 4 Comments