Re: CHAT: The King of Glottal Stops Reigns Supreme!
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2002, 12:43 |
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, jogloran wrote:
> <<
> Oh, and what's 'generic news-reader-type English? Radio National
> has, in
> the morning, that Australian version of RP (Modified Australian, I
> think),
> JJJ has, at times, an Irish one (I think).
> >>
>
> Well, it's like this. It's normal pronunciation that you hear the
> anchors using on, say, ABC or Seven News. It's just a normal Sydney
> accent without any interesting other features...
I don't watch much tv., especially not commercial tv. channels' news. Does
Sydney lack the variety of Melburnian, as described before? (There are
more, of course.) Not one of those accents can be considered 'normal'. And
I've been told that Melburnian is relatively (compared to Sydenysiders'
speech) unaffected, or is untrue?
Tristan