I was watching this hillariousness, and it struck me that there are lots of words that we Australians pronounce 'funny' to Americans.
Like, for example, daughter. We say Daw-da. You say Dah-ter
Or, route. We say root, you say r-ow-t.
We call ourselves Ozzies... you mispronounce it Ossies
We Aussies speak in "text" as one of my favourite comedians puts it. A service station is a "servo", car registration is "rego", a barbeque is a "barbie" and so on and so forth.
A few people have asked for a video of me (and Adam) talking. We're working on it. For some reason, our computer has dumped the web-cam, so we have to get a camcorder and a tripod.
Good thing tax time is only a couple of months away.
But we will, I promise.
So... what would you like to hear us say? What about us would you like to know? It could be anything funny, real, stupid, serious, whatever... I'll write it all down and we'll discuss it all for your viewing pleasure and, I'm sure, amusement.
We'll attempt to deliver.
We're really silly though.
Consider youreslves forewarned.
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TOW-MAY-TOE/ TOM-ART-OH
Friday, 11 June 2010
Posted by Jen at Friday, June 11, 2010 | Labels: Aussie Aussie Aussie, Just for Fun, Linguistics | Email This BlogThis! Share to X Share to Facebook | |
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Thanks for chiming in :)
I really promote conversation here, and I only ask that you be considerate of others feelings, and remember that tone doesn't always translate well over type. An emoticon can work wonders! ;)