Social Science Australian dialects

[Scotland]

Outside individuals we don't really have a cultural impact on America. Nobody there is watching the AFL or ******* Packed to the Rafters.

I wouldn't have thought we have a cultural impact on anywhere except the UK and NZ.

 

[Scotland]

Are we just going to brush over what Scotland looks like?

Jesus christ, he's like what I reckon people think I look like.

I thought he was like old and washed up and had a short back and sides but he's like... wow.

I'm not nearly that handsome, SA.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The subject of American arrogance is interesting. One that gets much less attention here is English arrogance. It's like the Empire never really ended for shitloads of them. It was part of the core of the Brexit cake and eat it too delusion, that Britain could have whatever it wants and its 27 closest allies would happily go along.

I think it's different though, because you can talk about it with the Portuguese and Spanish. Any imperialist has blood on their hands. The French are notoriously arrogant but tbh I liked 90% of those I bumped into, and they generally have a decent outlook. They come from this old, old country with so much history, and tension, art, culture, they're so integral to so much and you can sort of respect them going 'ahh, we'll have a war head too, aye. Don't need it. Just want it.'

The poms are evil campaigners though. The shit between them and the Scots, the way they fought was ****in dirty. Their lack of attention or remorse toward Aboriginals is pretty galling too. They almost say it's white Australia's problem (it is) but forget that white Australians are basically all poms. And that British people were the ones to spear and rape and pillage and take.

My biggest qualm with the English is their lack of respect toward the territories they took.

For example, Brazilians can go to Portugal easily. The French are liberal with letting in people from those African countries. The English have taken away this grandfather rule so Aussies have gone from everyone being able to live there, to almost no one. It's unbelievable. If you're an Aboriginal why can't you want to go live in London? Bit ****ed up that the people who took your proper country won't let you in theirs. If you want to hold onto some outdated notion of the Commonwealth, well show it some respect and if we're connected to the Queen, allow us to live in the UK and get a British passport. It's not like they're letting in random people from random countries – Australians in England are annoying but there'll be no cultural decay or ghettos (then again Shepherd's Bush...).

The big joke is the English really only took Australia because, and this is a weird thing that's half-respectful, they just had this dog hungry approach to take whatever. They saw a benefit in anything. There's lots of evidence the Portuguese were here well before but passed through as it didn't give anyone anything. The Dutch. But then the English took this chance and had this arrogance and made something from an arid, dry, foreign place. They even do the same today when they move to bonafide shithole developments in north flung suburbs of barely even Perth, more extensions of Joondalup.

 

[kickazz]

In professional circles I've never had any trouble being understood by Americans, with the exception of certain words or phrases. I am careful to speak clearly though. One of the first things Australians working in the UK learn is that they need to stop letting their words run into each other so much.

Not enough is made of the differences across Australia. Splitting into those three traditional categories was simplistic.

The one that i didn't realise until a few years ago was the way Victorians say celery and salary the same, but others don't. Being Victorian is probably harder to notice.

It's when you describe the difference from the opposite point of view that it sounds weird. To a Victorian, saying a South Australian says miwk makes sense. But then ask a South Australian how we say milk and I've heard some interesting descriptions, putting in stuff i didn't think was there!

 

[Plugger35]

I think it's different though, because you can talk about it with the Portuguese and Spanish. Any imperialist has blood on their hands. The French are notoriously arrogant but tbh I liked 90% of those I bumped into, and they generally have a decent outlook. They come from this old, old country with so much history, and tension, art, culture, they're so integral to so much and you can sort of respect them going 'ahh, we'll have a war head too, aye. Don't need it. Just want it.'

The poms are evil campaigners though. The shit between them and the Scots, the way they fought was ****in dirty. Their lack of attention or remorse toward Aboriginals is pretty galling too. They almost say it's white Australia's problem (it is) but forget that white Australians are basically all poms. And that British people were the ones to spear and rape and pillage and take.

My biggest qualm with the English is their lack of respect toward the territories they took.

For example, Brazilians can go to Portugal easily. The French are liberal with letting in people from those African countries. The English have taken away this grandfather rule so Aussies have gone from everyone being able to live there, to almost no one. It's unbelievable. If you're an Aboriginal why can't you want to go live in London? Bit ****** up that the people who took your proper country won't let you in theirs. If you want to hold onto some outdated notion of the Commonwealth, well show it some respect and if we're connected to the Queen, allow us to live in the UK and get a British passport. It's not like they're letting in random people from random countries – Australians in England are annoying but there'll be no cultural decay or ghettos (then again Shepherd's Bush...).

The big joke is the English really only took Australia because, and this is a weird thing that's half-respectful, they just had this dog hungry approach to take whatever. They saw a benefit in anything. There's lots of evidence the Portuguese were here well before but passed through as it didn't give anyone anything. The Dutch. But then the English took this chance and had this arrogance and made something from an arid, dry, foreign place. They even do the same today when they move to bonafide shithole developments in north flung suburbs of barely even Perth, more extensions of Joondalup.

In fairness to the UK they are a small country and probably have more people wanting to enter their country than France and Portugal so they need to toughen up on who they let in and for how long, London in particular is awash with refugees from all sorts of undesirable places due to them being such a soft touch for so long. That being said I don't know why they would make it tougher for young people from places like Australia and NZ to live and work there since we tend to fit in well with their culture and don't cause many problems compared to immigrants from other countries.

 

[Catfish Alley]

That’s the whole CANZUK thing. There is a push for free trade and migration between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and UK.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

In fairness to the UK they are a small country and probably have more people wanting to enter their country than France and Portugal so they need to toughen up on who they let in and for how long, London in particular is awash with refugees from all sorts of undesirable places due to them being such a soft touch for so long.

Is this satire?

 

[Scotland]

France is the most visited country on Earth.

 

[Plugger35]

Is this satire?

Have you lived there? Getting hassled by gypsy beggars almost everyday on the tube wasn't too pleasant, you don't see stuff like that on the trains here.

France is the most visited country on Earth.

No doubt France would get a lot of tourists but I'd say there'd be more people wanting to live and work in the UK due to being an English speaking country.

I could be wrong though.

 

[Scotland]

London and Paris are both shitholes filled with poor migrants from previously colonised countries.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Well that sucks. I actually really enjoyed London when I lived there. That was 16 years ago now though.

 

[Plugger35]

London and Paris are both shitholes filled with poor migrants from previously colonised countries.

They're both very similar cities apart from the language difference, much better places outside of them where there's more locals and less migrants.'

Well that sucks. I actually really enjoyed London when I lived there. That was 16 years ago now though.

It has it's good points in terms of entertainment/nightlife, greater work and travel opportunities but it's also dirty, polluted and crowded so it's not a place I'd want to live permanently.

 

[Papa G]

London in the 90's was awesome.

 

[Scotland]

Most big cities are great above a certain income level. Give me GBP100k a year and I could make a great life in London. Give be 5 quid an hour cleaning pub toilets and life would literally be pretty shit.

 

[Plugger35]

London in the 90's was awesome.

I was there at the tail end of the 90s and early 2000s but if you liked doing pills and going to clubs it was a pretty fun place to be.

Most big cities are great above a certain income level. Give me GBP100k a year and I could make a great life in London. Give be 5 quid an hour cleaning pub toilets and life would literally be pretty shit.

First job I had there was working as a porter at some Xmas functions for around 6 or 7 quid an hour, the hours were shit too but I worked with some fun people and we got free meals thrown in so it could have been worse.

 

[Chris_6678]

Travelling in Europe i got asked if i was from the US quite a few times... Then years later travelling the US i got asked where about in England i was from..

 

[quotemokc]

What about "battery"?

When I think about it I pronounce it bat-tree instead of bat-er-ree

That a WA thing or Australia in general? (Or just me)

 

[Catfish Alley]

I'm Victorian and would say bat-er-ree.

 

[Cuzz09]

France is the most visited country on Earth.

Does that mean its the most shitted on?

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[Cuzz09]

I say "Bat-tree"

"Ahhh the bloody bat-trees dead"

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[Catfish Alley]

Does that mean its the most shitted on?

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Despite a smaller population than China, I’m gonna say India take that title.

 

[iluvparis]

Have you lived there? Getting hassled by gypsy beggars almost everyday on the tube wasn't too pleasant, you don't see stuff like that on the trains here.



No doubt France would get a lot of tourists but I'd say there'd be more people wanting to live and work in the UK due to being an English speaking country.

I could be wrong though.

I lived in London for 2.5 years

Not once was I harassed by a gyspy beggar on the tube

If anything this happened more on inter-European trains

 

[mr bagcroft]

I say "Bat-tree"

"Ahhh the bloody bat-trees dead"

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I say Bat-tree
Only time I have ever said "Bat-er-ee" is when quoting the Metallica song.

 

[Plugger35]

I lived in London for 2.5 years

Not once was I harassed by a gyspy beggar on the tube

If anything this happened more on inter-European trains

You can't have used the Piccadilly line much then, that was the line I used the most as I lived near it and it was where I mostly encountered gypsy beggars.

They would target that line as tourists would catch it from Heathrow and they were easy pickings for them, most other people would just tell them to piss off.

 

[Billy ray]

When i was in the US, san fran specifically, i went ti burger king and asked for a whopper with cheese.
She replied the shake machine is broken