Re: YAEPT: Woman imitates many English accents

On 09/03/08 00:53:24, Lars Finsen wrote:
>
> Tristan McLeay wrote:
>
> > quoting me:
> >>
> >> Nice video, btw. They must love it Down Under, I think.
> >
> > You must forgive me, but why?
>
> I'm a little ironic. Guess I ought to use smileys more. She was
> joking a little at their expense, wasn't she?
If you mean the way she says "twinty-sex --- no twinty-siven --- no
twinty-five", that's because the biggest difference between the Kiwi
vowels and the Australian ones are in the short front vowels: The only
good example of that otherwise is the word "Yis" which she says very
quickly and isn't really a part of the speech.

Also, it's no worse than Australians do to Kiwis or vice-versa.

> BTW, does NZ also classify as Down Under, or does that only refer to
>
> Australia?
I don't think so. I've always understood "Down Under" to refer to the
country of Australia, not the Antipodes or the continent. Wikipedia
says it "refer[s] to Australia and occasionally New Zealand".

--
Tristan.

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