I like that English accent. Actually I like all accents. And the way I grew up, I'm a bit of a chameleon.

No offense meant at all to anyone. I wasn't making fun. I love that people from so many different places can find such camaraderie. I'm the one saying all the time "okay, what does that mean?" because I truly want to know.

The Aussies will know what I am saying..(I hope).

But can any of you from the US or Britain etc understand?

"Owyergoinorright?"

to which the reply might be:

"Orrightowareyou?"

Then, if it's a Monday morning at work..the conversation might go this way:

"Djaveagoodweegend?"

Of course (and I explain this to my Chinese students who often find it funny/strange) Australians talk like this because there are so many flies in the outback that it's important to speak with the mouth kept as closed as possible. Sorta like ventriloquism!



Other than the accent, this is how the rednecks from back how speak. At least an Aussie sounds a bit sexy. There guys spoke low with their mouths almost closed. It was muddybone this, muddybone that Never understood a damn word.

The Aussies will know what I am saying..(I hope).

"Owyergoinorright?"

"Orrightowareyou?"

"Djaveagoodweegend?"


  QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ October 21, 2010, 14:49)

Y'all, I am originally from that mecca of hillbilly, West Virginia. I have lived in Florida now, longer than I did in Wva, so my hillbilly accent has softened some. However, when I go home for vacation, even for a couple of days, I come back and the accent is as thick as it was the day I left.

Oh, and sometimes I say 'pop' and sometimes I say 'soda,' it just depends...on what I have no idea!

I love a foreign accent, Gaelic, Irish, (British) English and Australian...Yummy is the man who speaks to me in one of those!

I agree about the Scottish accent. However, something I learned on a History Channel show about the Appalachian area and how it developed over the years, they said that was comprised mostly of Scottish settlers. Its amazing to me how the beautiful Scottish accent morphed over the years into the way that "hill folk" (as the series dubbed them) speak today. During interviews with "hill folk" there were subtitles at the bottom of the screen because what they were saying was basically unintelligible.

  QUOTE (pepper @ October 22, 2010, 02:38)



what about Scottish

I remember when I was very young, one of our family elders had a birth defect. His tongue was too short or malformed. He couldn't speak very well at all.
It's amazing how we all could learn 'his' language. I couldn't as well as his siblings that grew up with him of course, but I could understand about half or so.

He was born at home, in the hills. Hospital were too far away and totally unaffordable, so babies were born at home and I guess you kinda had to deal with the hand dealt to you.

I remember an Aunt who did follow a few of the superstitions she was raised with, she hated a hoot owl near her window at night, that was supposedly a bad omen.
Part of her knew better, part of her was a little frightened by it.

That's interesting about the word "route", come to think of it, in my area we say rowt when we talk about a route to take, but still the classic historical highway is still pronounced root 66. I have no idea why.

  QUOTE (Chazzy @ October 24, 2010, 11:06)


lol..root 66 is the wife the Sheik has between wife No.65 and Wife No.67.
Which reminds me, maybe this should go in the jokes section too..a guy told a friend he was going to Melbourne the following week and asked him what route he was taking. He replied..Oh none of my girlfriends, just the wife this time.

Oh and a wombat eats roots and leaves.
Ya see, an American just couldn't tell these jokes.