Re: Antipodean Accents; was Re: Klingon Script

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 00:18, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> From: Joe [mailto:joe@WANTAGE.COM]
>
> > Well, English people can't tell the difference either.   Kiwi
> > seems to be Aussie shifted upwards, though.
That seems to me to be a pretty major difference. Consonants don't
really play all that big a difference in English accents (exceptions
apply, but they serve more to define categories then be a feature of the
accent, but there are exceptions to that rule, too).

> And less broad too.
What, exactly, defines a broad accent?---And anyway, wouldn't that
really be a fairly invalid statement,

> 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.

Tristan.

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