LOL! Thanks, Russell, very informative. Someone (perhaps yourself) mentioned
that Paul Hogan's accent is atypical - what's different (wrong?) about it?
How about the other crocodile guy? And what do Aussies think of him. People
over here seem to either hate him or love him. I think he's kind of a nut,
but funny in small doses. Wouldn't surprise me to see _him_ slowly poking the
fire.
Doug
Russell Chapman wrote:
> Gosh - New Zealanders all sound alike accent wise (there are variations in what
> they say), and Australians and South Africans have only small differences
> regionally (though the three are completely different to each other). Your
> question runs into real trouble when you get to the English. Leaving aside the
> non-English UK accents (Scot, Welsh, Irish, Channel Is) the variation in England
> is enormous. East Enders and Cockneys might as well be speaking different
> languages. For the Queen's english, you need the "official" BBC accent, but after
> that it's a maze... Experts could, until recent times of high population
> mobility, pick London suburb of origin with considerable accuracy.
>
> For the colonials, New Zealanders soften everything (it's all those sheep) as in,
> fuh, fife, sex, sivvin, ett, nine, tin.
> Australians drawl a bit (not like Hollywood would have you believe)and add a
> "twang" to many of their syllables, and South Africans have a "harder edge" from
> the Dutch influence, with some extra "R" sounds thrown in.
>
> As it happens, I received a joke about this in my email this morning.
> Warning:
> Some crudity involved
> Please stop if you are likely to be offended...
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> .
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> The scene is set, night cold, campfire, stars twinkling in the night
> sky. some of you know the scene well ! Three hang glider pilots, one
> Aussie, one Kiwi and one Saffer there are sitting around a camp fire in
> the Brecon Beacons, each of them embroiled in there own bravado, a night
> of tall tales begins.
>
> Kevin the Kiwi says "I must be the meanest, toughest hang glider dude
> there es, ay, why, just the other day, I landed in a field, sceared a
> crocodile who got loose from the swamp which ate sux men before I
> wristled et to the ground.... weth my bare hends ay"
>
> Koos from South Africa typically can`t stand to be bettered. "Well you
> guys I lended orfter a 200 mile flight on a tiny trail ind a fifteen
> foot Namibian desert snike slid out from under a rock and made a move
> for me. I grebbed that borsted with my bare hands and beet its head orf
> ind sucked the poison down in one gulp. Ind I`m still here todaiy".
>
> Barry the Aussie remaind silent, slowly poking the fire with his dick.
