Grammar Police Gazette

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Holey rubber can mean disaster

It lasts for a paternity.

[Marty_d]

Oh! And I thought he was talking about tyres.

(I did cotton on eventually)

[Jerry_Atrick]

Not for those of timid dispositions:

 

[facthunter]

Says ERROR so I won't touch it, thanks.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

You have to watch it on YouTube as it contains adult language..

 

 

[onetrack]

It's all about the F-word - and as to its quality as a linguistic presentation, it's pretty f***ed. 😄 

[willedoo]

I thought I'd post this question here for want of a better place. I was watching a youtube video today of a bloke on a farm fixing a ride on mower, and a few small things about his accent made me think he was a Victorian. He had a very similar accent to a bloke from Warrnabool I used to work with in S.A.. One thing in the video stood out though, and that was the way he was pronouncing the word belt as balt. Not as in bolt, but more of a dipthong like baelt with the e part very brief. His profile said he was in southern Victoria, so the question is whether that is just some localised pronounciation or something more wide spread in the state. 

[rgmwa]

I grew up not far from Warrnambool and lived there for a while. Belt was pronounced `belt' as far as I know.

[facthunter]

Never Have I heard it suggested there was a Victorian   Accent. People who live overseas for a while can pick up a bit of the  Local accent. People who have Migrated to Here as they get older often revert to  their original accent. The Australian accent is strong  in general there are  regional differences in some semi isolated spots. Nev

[old man emu]

If he was fixing a  worn balt, it was probably becasue it a had a fault.

[willedoo]

Maybe accent is not the correct word and the word pronunciation would be more correct. In all other ways the bloke in the video speaks very much like the bloke from Warrnabool I used to work with, but that one word belt had quite a strong difference. Maybe he had a Scottish grandfather and it was just a family trait.

 

Regarding small differences in Australian accents, it probably depends on where you are from regarding how noticeable some are from one's own pronunciations. For a Queenslander, South Australians are easy to pick but probably stand out to a lot of others as well. We can pick Victorians probably about 70% of the time but that depends on their age groups and sometimes where they live in Victoria. Sometimes the way they pronounce slang words is a giveaway. As far as NSW goes, a Queenslander generally can't pick them. We usually can't pick Tasmanians either.

 

Probably one of the biggest accent differences is a demographic one where you get into the so-called outback areas . We always used to jokingly call the language 'ringer' as it's most predominate among station people and dilutes the closer toward the coastline you travel excepting places like the Kimberleys and the Territory. It comes from white people absorbing a lot of aboriginal accent into the speaking of English. You almost need an interpreter to understand some of the white people.

[facthunter]

Where all the People look the same is a bit of a Giveaway.  It's an extended family. Eh!. Nev

[Marty_d]

South Australians are strange.

They pronounce Lego as "lay-go".

[red750]

And they pronounce potato cakes as fritters. Don't mention scallops, they're seafood.

[willedoo]

45 minutes ago, red750 said:

And they pronounce potato cakes as fritters.

I haven't had fritters for years but I don't ever remember any potato in them. The ones we had were corn beef fritters, just shredded corn beef in a type of batter fried.

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

South Australians are strange.

They pronounce Lego as "lay-go".

I know of a big kid who has mar-a-lay-go

[pmccarthy]

Whenever I hear an old lady who sounds like my mum, I know she is from the Riverina