Sometimes I try to play up the Australian accent/stereotype to foreigners for a bit of a laugh, only to then get in to a conversation with other Australians and realise I was actually playing it down.
I was chatting with a yank fella I know on Discord and called him mate, I’ve known him for about a year. There was a pause and he said, “That’s the first time you’ve ever called me mate”. Bloke was just about tearing up cos apparently I’d just fulfilled one of his life ambitions, being called mate by an Aussie. Ordinarily I use mate just about every other sentence but it made me realise I must subconsciously tone it down for foreigners.
For me it’s sentence structure and grammar. I’ll use words like ‘mate’ when talking to non-aussies but they’ll be in very formal sentences. With other Australians all that gets chucked out.
Born and raised in Perth so have been told I sound British. When I used to game online I was often told I don’t sound Australian and would then go into what I thought was proper Ocker only to have Australian friends call me out for sounding like a Brit imitating crocodile Dundee…
I grew up in rural NSW and I’ve been called British, New Zealand, American, South African. 🤨
I felt better when I visited friends in the US and ran into some mates from Perth who’d been there a few months and they said “it’s so good to hear an Australian voice again”.
And one of their new US friends heard me talking and were like “oh my God another Australian!”
So it seems to be just people in Melbourne and Sydney can’t pick my accent.
I know that NSW means New South Wales, but I can only read it as North South West. Before I learned what it actually meant, that was very confusing.
Go all in at all times. We’re not here to fuck spiders.
Farkin’ oath cunt, go hard or go home
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I’m fine until some of the slang gets in there. I know some, but there’s definitely more I don’t and hearing it on Aussie YouTube channels sometimes has me running to google if the context alone doesn’t cut it.
Unrelated, but what would be the best community to ask about tourist stuff? Wife and I would like to visit but I’d like to do some reading and maybe get some opinions if I see anything not already answered. Cheers!
Look for specific city communities if you are going there and ask questions. Don’t be too broad though, ask about things you’ve heard about or food places you’d like to try.
Go to western Australia, go to the beaches, be disappointed by every other beach you ever go to in your entire life.
Hah, we were actually thinking Queensland for the dinosaur museums and fossils. I love the water, but wife isn’t such a big fan.
Just remember QLD is our Florida.
More to do in Queensland tbf
Definitely. That’s just something we really wanted to do (wife is really into fossils, particularly amolites)
wife is really into fossils
Self burn
Hah, I walked right into that. I have way too much soft tissue to … y’know, I don’t think that response is helping my cause.
Sometimes I wonder if people online think I’m playing it up (I’m from a rural area and talk like that normally)
I try to talk less Australian to an international audience because I’m self conscious of looking like I’m hamming it up.
