Australians Have 'lazy' Accent From Too Much Drinking?

Warrigal said:
Bollocks. A theory that cannot be proved or disproved.
Let's hope he didn't get a government grant for that 'academic' rubbish.
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Rubbish it is Warrigal...(and prejudicial). More here.


But UQ linguistics expert Dr Rob Pensalfini described the theory as an example of "cultural cringe" and "absolute rubbish".

Dr Pensalfini said theories like Mr Frankel's were often advanced for all kinds of accents, and were commonly unfounded.

"They say New Yorkers have nasal voices because they have to cut through the noise of the traffic," he told the ABC.

"The original one for Australia was we speak in a slurred and closed-lip way to keep the flies out of their mouths.

"They're all completely baseless ... I want to see the evidence, I want to see the instrumental valuations."

He said standard Australian language came from mostly Cockney origins with an influence of Irish-English.

"There are some parts of Australia with other influences ... in high density areas, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, there is some urban, sometimes called wog speak, also known as new Australian English.

Dr Pensalfini, who is also an actor and director, added drunks often in fact over-articulated rather than slurred their words because they were "aware of their impairment".

"That's a cliche too, but if I was coaching an actor to be drunk I would tell them to ... very deliberately say what they've got to say."
 
Warrigal said:
Bollocks. A theory that cannot be proved or disproved.
Let's hope he didn't get a government grant for that 'academic' rubbish.
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I continue to learn something everyday, even at 73! "Bollocks" in Australian, means B. S. here! :rolleyes:

imp
 
Paul Hogan is coming to take someone out...
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Seriously though it's racist or grammerist or something...The American Southern accent...I don't mean the crackers but a real Shelby Foote Southern accent is beautiful. The same can be said for the islands, a West Indian accent is musical...it's not because they spend their days baked. Just nasty rubbish about the Aussies
 
imp said:
I continue to learn something everyday, even at 73! "Bollocks" in Australian, means B. S. here! :rolleyes:

imp
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Learn some more then. I pinched it from the English

Bollocks A highly flexible term commonly used by the English.

1. something rubbish
2. a falsehood or series of lies
3. something great
4. the best possible
5. testicles
6. exclamation on making a error.

1. That Mel Gibson movie was a load of bollocks.
2. That Tony Blair is talking bollocks.
3. That curry was the bollocks!
4. That your wife is the dog's bollocks when it comes to cooking!
5. Then she kicked him in the bollocks.
6. Bollocks!
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The meaning is then, double speak. "Rubbish", "great", "best", "series of lies".

"Learn some more then"

That, I did. Learned it would be best if I neglected to react to that which appeared to be "cut and dried', for that likely means imponderable. imp
 
imp said:
The meaning is then, double speak. "Rubbish", "great", "best", "series of lies".

"Learn some more then"

That, I did. Learned it would be best if I neglected to react to that which appeared to be "cut and dried', for that likely means imponderable. imp
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O pish! Context is everything, as is tone. You got the basic drift of my meaning since BS is rubbish but I wanted you to explore the deeper nuances and to understand that Australian vernacular and English vulgarity often overlap. Now you can watch British TV and understand the lingo like a native.
 
Warrigal said:
O pish! Context is everything, as is tone. You got the basic drift of my meaning since BS is rubbish but I wanted you to explore the deeper nuances and to understand that Australian vernacular and English vulgarity often overlap. Now you can watch British TV and understand the lingo like a native.
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Ah, perhaps I was confronted by a term encountered very long ago in a comic strip: everything was all bollixed up. I've always imagined that meant "screwed-up", but perhaps was wrong.

Now, as you well know "tone" is a function of harmonics introduced upon a common carrier, i.e., acoustic or vibrational analysis. Don't be telling me my vocal cords are involved in this distention, now! imp
 
Language is interesting, isn't it.? Even though we all speak and understand English we use it differently from region to region, country to country and generation to generation. I love that English is so variable and so adaptable.
 
Cookie said:
The mix of the accents of Cockney and Irish settlers in Australia seems the most reasonable to me.
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Language certainly is fascinating:
When we first immigrated to Australia, I could not understand a word for about 3 months.
Colleagues who hated Americans would speak quickly, knowing full well I wouldn't be able to understand a single word (that's probably how they got rid of the previous American)!
Australian English came across as a pleasant, melodious language, lifting to a question at the end.
Since then I've learned the difference between British English, New Zealand English, and Australian English.
Never heard the word "bollocks" being used in Australia!
 
We say Balderdash ....
writing; nonsense:she dismissed talk of plots as ‘balderdash’

I was born in NSW but have spent the last 45 years in South Australia .... While traveling with our caravan in 2005 I walked into a gem shop in a small NSW town called Coonabarabran and and I walked through the door said hello to the lady who in turn said oh your from South Aust aren't you ? .so our accents must sound a little different from state to state in Aus ..
 

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