Aussies no.
The Aussie accent is the same across the country.
At least it was when I was there some 13 years ago.
We do have regional accents though very slight many wouldnt pick up on. When I go to QLD every shop keeper asks where I'm from so I mustn't sound local.
We do have class accents. Search for housos on youtube for an example of a lower class accent. I slip into it when angry but have had people ask how old I was when I came out from the uk (5th gen aussie) round my vowels or some such rubbish.
I've always been made fun of by the way I speak. Even my siblings call me posh. I do wonder why it is though that I can't seem to speak in a "standard" Australian accent.
Most people say, I sound "posh". Certainly not like Alf Stewart. I have an aversion to the word "mate".
In the US you have the deep south accent which seems to be a slow drawl and the Bronx accent is quite guttural. Then there is the New England accent which seems posh (think: Katharine Hepburn).
That's not necessarily the case in England .You can be as poor as a church mouse but yet be extremely posh Or the other way round , Becks is loaded yet would still be considered an East End oik ,Welcome to the very confusing English class system.
In Germany they have regional accents. I can speak fairly good German and I can often pick up roughly where someone is from in Germany too.
The people in Hanover are said to have the "purest" German, or "Hoch Deustch" (High German). The people in the South speak a different German, especially in Bavaria. Switzerland and Austria are again different versions of German. My friend from the former Easter Germany speaks with a "funny" accent according to my friend from the North of Germany and both of them use different terms and slang to my friend from Bavria from example, all 3 of them may have some difficulty understanding someone from Zurich.
It's a bit like someone from Shetland trying to be understood by someone from New Zealand...both may be speaking English, but such a variation may make it hard for them to converse.
Stewie from family guy has a blatantly posh / southern english accent!
I do think its crazy that you can go from street to street in the uk and hear a completely different accent but you can travel from state to state in the us / australia / canada and hear the same one!
I had no idea about the many different french accents (they obviously all sound the same to me!) it must just occur in older countries that have had hundreds of years to develop an accent. Maybe mass immigration has something to do with it aswell?
I always thought the New England accent was considered the 'poshest' in America.................like the Kennedys and the Mayor of Springfield...................
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"turd blossom" lol yall are so classy in texas!
Yeah, we have such a way with words don 't we??:D
We do have regional accents though very slight many wouldnt pick up on. When I go to QLD every shop keeper asks where I'm from so I mustn't sound local.
We do have class accents. Search for housos on youtube for an example of a lower class accent. I slip into it when angry but have had people ask how old I was when I came out from the uk (5th gen aussie) round my vowels or some such rubbish.
I already told you there isn't. The way a person speaks in America does not denote their level of wealth or social status.
aye just saw Grossman on the telly and you're spot on there!
Loyd Grossman sounds Australian to me!
Most people say, I sound "posh". Certainly not like Alf Stewart. I have an aversion to the word "mate".
That's not necessarily the case in England .You can be as poor as a church mouse but yet be extremely posh Or the other way round , Becks is loaded yet would still be considered an East End oik ,Welcome to the very confusing English class system.
The people in Hanover are said to have the "purest" German, or "Hoch Deustch" (High German). The people in the South speak a different German, especially in Bavaria. Switzerland and Austria are again different versions of German. My friend from the former Easter Germany speaks with a "funny" accent according to my friend from the North of Germany and both of them use different terms and slang to my friend from Bavria from example, all 3 of them may have some difficulty understanding someone from Zurich.
It's a bit like someone from Shetland trying to be understood by someone from New Zealand...both may be speaking English, but such a variation may make it hard for them to converse.
That is not true.
They say Lyon speak the French equivalent of RP, but they say the purest French is spoken in the Touraine region.
Are all the Bushes, rich posh & stupid as George..Hopefully it is just George Junior
How come so many films and tv shows use accents for social demarcation then?