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Hard2Get
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 Posted - 2010/12/17 : 17:18:23
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
If anything, it throws me when i hear other australian accents.
We really do have the ugliest dialect of the english language... it's so lazy... but i never notice it unless i hear it in stark contrast to, say, an american accent (like in a movie).
Bonza!
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Future_Shock
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 17:22:49
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
If anything, it throws me when i hear other australian accents.
We really do have the ugliest dialect of the english language... it's so lazy... but i never notice it unless i hear it in stark contrast to, say, an american accent (like in a movie).
Bonza!
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Bonkers4Life
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 17:26:40
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Originally posted by atomsk:
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Originally posted by 8D:
my friend from New Zealand says that they are so used to watching American movies that it doesn't throw them off at all
How about yourself? You live in Canada but you guys must have some slang we dont, right?
oh you mean the word "eh" :P
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Dante
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 17:48:57
What's the other aussie term for aussie again? Bogan, or something like that?
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NekoShuffle
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 20:13:12
sometimes I need subtitles when I read Smoogie's posts due to his outdated british slang :D
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atomsk
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 20:30:02
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
If anything, it throws me when i hear other australian accents.
We really do have the ugliest dialect of the english language... it's so lazy... but i never notice it unless i hear it in stark contrast to, say, an american accent (like in a movie).
Well I understand that, if I went down south to lets say Louisiana (really south if you dont know) I wouldnt understand it, and same would go to someone who had a really strong accent from like New York.
But the ugliest? I find it one of the best accents, next to someone who has a Scandinavia or Russian accent.
Why do you say it is "lazy"?
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Originally posted by Bonkers4Life:
oh you mean the word "eh" :P
Some people in the northern states say that also, like some people for Chicago... Go figure.
But I meant like.
Doggy means crappy/bad, but in the states no one really says it, but in some places (afaik) say it in that term.
You guys must have something like that, right? Or are you guys influenced by the states with your slang/speech?
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Originally posted by NekoShuffle:
sometimes I need subtitles when I read Smoogie's posts due to his outdated british slang :D
Thanks for the laugh :D
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acidfluxxbass
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 21:44:34
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
If anything, it throws me when i hear other australian accents.
We really do have the ugliest dialect of the english language... it's so lazy... but i never notice it unless i hear it in stark contrast to, say, an american accent (like in a movie).
Bonza!
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is it true you dont watch Home and Away?
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Warnman
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 21:53:30
I think it is more interessting how poor tranlations are researched in movies.
For example I always have to laugh my ass off watching Die Hard III. At the end a guy is saying:" In zwanzig Minuten koennen wir starten!" (We can start in twenty minutes), but the translation reads:" In ten minutes we can leave."
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 22:06:19
Well fortunately you speak English!
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kathryn
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 22:57:11
Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie 
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DJ Lawlzy
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 23:46:38
Something I found funny is here in Canada we have ATMs (automaticed teller machine) and apparently sometimes they're called hole-in-the-walls in the UK?
"'scuse me I have to go use the hole in the wall." :P
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 23:52:03
Both are used frequently. I never really thought about how odd it sounds lol, but now that you mention it, it does sound weird.
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DJ Lawlzy
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Posted - 2010/12/18 : 00:15:50
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
Both are used frequently. I never really thought about how odd it sounds lol, but now that you mention it, it does sound weird.
Pretty odd first time I heard it, I was asked where the hole-in-the-wall was and I didn't know how to answer haha!
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Future_Shock
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Posted - 2010/12/18 : 00:48:44
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Originally posted by Dante:
What's the other aussie term for aussie again? Bogan, or something like that?
A bogan is the equivalent of an american redneck, or a hick or whatever. Aussie term for another Aussie is just an Aussie lol.
And for you Americans, its pronounced OHZZI not OHSSi... pisses me off so much
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Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
If anything, it throws me when i hear other australian accents.
We really do have the ugliest dialect of the english language... it's so lazy... but i never notice it unless i hear it in stark contrast to, say, an american accent (like in a movie).
Bonza!
What?
is it true you dont watch Home and Away?
Home and Away is more of a 13 year old girl's show... so no, i don't watch it personally lol.
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Originally posted by kathryn:
Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie
Worst stereotypical catchphrase seeing as they're prawns here... shrimp are American.
"Throw another prawn on the barbie" would be correct. I've never heard anyone call anything a shrimp, except an American on tv lol
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atomsk
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Posted - 2010/12/18 : 01:09:18
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Originally posted by Andy_Influx:
And for you Americans, its pronounced OHZZI not OHSSi... pisses me off so much
Uhh I think I might be confused...
I know in other country's you guys say "Z' differently. Like "zed" and here we say like "zee".
The way I read both of them would be on the lines of "ozzy" like "Ozzy Osbourne".
So by saying it like this, it is wrong? "Ah-zee".
Dialects are confusing some times.
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