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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 23:10:23 GMT
Hmmm what weird about Australia...we have our own slang for things that no one else understands (actully I barely understand Australian slang and I have lived here my whole life). Something else some people are suprised about is most of use sound NOTHING like we are depicted in the movies (a few do but most don't) the 'Australian Accent' is mostly a Hollywood creation, some of us have a bit of an accent but I haven't met anyone with as strong an accent we are depicted to have. I myself apparently have a 'British Accent' (though I don't think I do) which I correct and say 'There is no such thing as a British accent. British is the English, Scottish and Welsh who all have thier own laugages' sometimes I even add "There isn't even such thing as an Englsih accent, as someone from West London could sound different to someone in East London" but I digress... In London there are 20 dialects now |
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Post by Jean Lannes on Jun 23, 2016 22:56:10 GMT
I find it funny that here in ex-Yugoslavia there are people saying that bosnian, montenegrin, croatian, etc. are languages (if you know one of the serbo- croatian languages you understand at least 90% of all the others), while swiss german, or -italian are almost not understandable by standard german or italian speakers but are still just dialects...  I agree. I grew up with many Bosnians and Serbs and they could speak fluently with each other while our German was different than the one 50 miles away |
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