question for australians
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VivaMongo — 18 years ago(March 16, 2008 10:31 PM)
Though it is meant to be an exaggeration of the nasal twang of the suburban "aspirational" Australian, you can hear plenty of people talking just like that at my local shopping mall in western Sydney.
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ennor — 17 years ago(April 11, 2008 02:07 AM)
I agree with all of the above. If you grab all of the `aspirational' Aussies - i.e. the wannabe-upwardly-mobiles-from-the-working-class-swamps - and put them together in one show, you'd get K & K.
Many of us think like these people do, but edit our thoughts before speaking.
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Startanew — 17 years ago(June 03, 2008 08:02 PM)
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down_under_birdy — 17 years ago(June 26, 2008 07:47 PM)
Perfect example: Julian Gillard, our Deputy Prime Minister. She sounds like she walked straight off the set.
I used to tutor a young high school kid who sounded just like them too.
I find its usually people who come from lower working class backgrounds, but who have educated themselves and worked their way into the middle class. They have a sort of hybrid accent, or they're forcing it. -
lil_mandy_04 — 17 years ago(July 20, 2008 05:44 AM)
noo waywell not from where i come from anyway..
the show is funny because it's so over exagerrated..if people actually talked like that..then it would be as funny as the show
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tyrthunder — 17 years ago(September 18, 2008 08:39 PM)
Haha sometimes my grandmother says "Amblience" instead of "Ambulance" and my old maths teacher (who is a male) used to say, "Year NOINE, PLOISE be QUIOT!" lol.
So yeah, occasionally I hear a few people say a few things like Kath and Kim but it's not excessive.
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amb5-1 — 17 years ago(October 26, 2008 01:19 AM)
Absolutely. They remind me so much of my Victorian relatives and my cousin's wife could be the very person Kath modelled herself on. I usually cringe when I meet my cousins (as nice as they are) as they look like they are all inbred. I'm not joking. WA really should break away from the rest of the country.
