Okay, so this isn’t strictly about photography, but the boys at The Camera Store TV
just put out a funny camera review with Chris Niccolls doing an ‘Australian’ accent. And
it sounded almost exactly the same as his ‘South African’ accent.
I’ve got no problem with folk that want to take the
piss out of Australia (Hell, I do it all the time!) but please listen to the accent and GET IT RIGHT!
To help, I am going to compile a few quick tips and I’m
going to give you some Australian words, spelt phonetically and with
translation, to give you a head start on the crowd.
Aussie Words:
Straya
= Australia
Ah-Wah-Ya?
= How are you?
Ah-Dah-Fah-Gah-Ya-May
= How are you, my friend?
G’day
(note the lack of vowel between the G and
the d) = Hello!
Fah-Gen-Nidiod
= Unintelligent person
Useless
Fah-Gen-Nidiod = Politician
Sheila
= Woman who is about to punch you in the face for calling her a ‘sheila‘
Now,
as you may have noticed, we don’t tend to use hard consonant sounds. The only
time we go to hard consonants is when we are upset. At that time we begin to enunciate very clearly, so that whoever we are upset with knows exactly what
we think of them, their parentage, which part of the human anatomy they are and
where on (or in) their anatomy we are
about to place our boot, fist, knee or forehead. I would like to give you some
examples, but I am trying to keep my blog clean, and many of the words we begin
to enunciate clearly when we are upset don’t fit that ethos.
Okay!
Short blog post today, but I’ve got a fair bit of stuff to do today with my
photo story project, so that’s it! Comments are welcome as usual, so...
COMMENT!
I hope this helps you figure out how to start sounding
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