Re: Antipodean Accents; was Re: Klingon Script

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 00:55, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> 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,
Forgot to finish. 'invalid statement, considering that Australian has a
range of levels of broadness in its accents?'

> 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'.
I do believe the vast majority of Australians would agree with you in
most contexts, unless the word in question is 'six'.

> 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.
Ahh----another good quote. Kiwi's accents just don't sound right. That's
a good one. At least, when taken out of context.

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

Tristan.