Re: Antipodean Accents; was Re: Klingon Script

From: Tristan McLeay [mailto:kesuari@YAHOO.COM.AU]

> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 00:18, Keith Gaughan wrote:
>
> > And less broad too.
>
> What, exactly, defines a broad accent?---And anyway, wouldn't that
> really be a fairly invalid statement,
Well, in this context it means diphthongs are less pronounced in the
Kiwi accent than the Aussie one. Kiwi vowels and diphthongs are just
a bit too clipped for my taste. Which makes me think...

   The Kiwi accent is essentially the Aussie accent with all the
   vowels and dipthongs converted to `u'.

> > Before I lived with a guy from NZ, I wouldn't have been able to
> > tell a Kiwi from an Aussie. Now I can, if only for fear of having
> > my liver gorged out with a spoone :-)
>
> LOLOLOL! I agree with that one. Not that it's something that
> needs to be learnt. Everyone should be able to tell the difference,
> it's clear as day. It's as obvious as the difference between, say,
> Aussie and Cockney or RP.
It didn't really take me long to cotton on. I was challenged to
guess where he was from and I guessed he was from Enzed seeing
as his accent just didn't sound right.

The fact I've seen a couple of episodes of Shortland Street didn't
hurt either...

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