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For anyone who actually wants to read the map, here's a better view of it.
I have a suggestion
This may be a silly question... but, given that Australia is so big, are there different regional accents? Can you tell (approximately, of course!) what part of the country someone is from by the way they talk?
Oooh this is such an interesting (and complicated) question! I’m not a linguistics student like some of my friends but I’ll do my best to explain it.
Australia very much doesn’t have the same kind of regional accents that can be seen in the US - I think both because the timespan an Australian accent has developed over is shorter, as well as the colonial period in Australia really only having one base language (English).
Linguistically, the Australian accents are commonly considered to fall into strength categories, rather than regional categories (think Steve Irwin vs Cate Blanchett). In addition to this, there are also accents associated commonly with population subgroups, such as an Aboriginal English (AbE) related accent, or a general “ethnic” Australian accent often found in high migrant communities. Honestly skit here does a good job outlining the second one.
But to be honest with you, as someone who has moved across the country I’m not sure I entirely agree with the common consensus that Australia has no regional accent variation at all.
The common linguistic consensus is that more regional areas have a tendency to have stronger, and more broad accents, and that strength of accent can be more tied to social class than region. And that instead linguistic variation across the country is tied solely to vast differentiations in word use. Projects like this really show the vast regional splits that exist across that.
Having lived in both the north and south of the eastern side of Australia, in varying levels of regional places, and travelled to various parts of southern and Western Australia though, I DO think there’s a regional difference in accent. However, it is definitely far more subtle than those of the US. I am aware that having moved across states distances (~1250 miles) I had to consciously adjust my accent to be understood clearly, and that in high school my friends could tell if I had been on the phone to friends or family from my home state recently because of my accent shift.
Despite knowing there’s a difference though, it’s surprisingly difficult to articulate. I know the area of north eastern Australia I grew up in has a notably different long oo sound though. One of my friends told me I pronounce school far more like “skewl”. Granted the same friend also told me I spoke more like her 80 yr old Irish grandmother to an anyone she knew where I currently was at the time.
I’d be curious to see what other Australian mutuals I have think though.
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Occasionally as an Australian you'll be talking to someone from overseas, and you'll discover a common phrase you took for granted is, in fact, not universally known outside of our country.
Turns out casually dropping "fuck me dead" into conversation will give unsuspecting Americans an aneurism.
The more you know.
Imagine being on a work call with an Aussie and they suddenly announce they're gonna blow a load in response to a problem.
Not Aussie but I asked an American once if she was taking the piss ( i.e. pulling my leg, joking. Perfectly cromulent and friendly english expression)
and she got really upset because she thought I was threatening to piss ON her
This is killing me
Rifling through the tags, here's some other terms which are apparently causing mass carnage whenever they escape our borders:
- Having a goon (i.e. Sipping on a delightful wine)
- Having a gaytime (Eating an icecream)
- Having a sticky beak (Investigating)
- Take a squiz (To have a sticky beak)
- Get stuffed (To express a revelation is most frightful)
- Chuck a sickie (Take a day off work due to the humours being misaligned)
- Chuck a wobbly (When one's temperament becomes visibly upset)
- Carry on like a pork chop (Acting most silly indeed)
- Thongs (flip flops)
- Hot chook (Pre-cooked supermarket rotisserie chicken, otherwise known as the Bachelor's Handbag)
- Fair suck of the sauce bottle (Let's be real)
- Shits me to tears (Something is mildly annoying)
- Not here to fuck spiders (Expressing a situation is serious)
- Having a piss-up (A social gathering)
- I'll shout you (offering to goon an old chum)
- A cruisy place (a relaxed atmosphere, where one might shout and goon the night away while enjoying many a gaytime in your favourite thongs)
Some usamerican friends of mine recently learned the Aussie meaning of snail trail (the line of hair from the bellybutton heading south). They were horrified to say the least
We also have 'chookas' instead of 'break a leg'
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Anonymous asked:
You are going to (be forced to) eradicate ONE sport from existence. Choose wisely~
American Football
Baseball
Basketball
Football/Soccer
Volleyball
Ice Hockey
Tennis
I’m going to eradicate [other sport] from existence instead!
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it's usually morally correct to make fun of the usa but whenever i hear british people do it it feels kinda tone deaf. idk if we have the high ground here guys. its like your mom making fun of your mental illness like ma'am where do you think i got it from.
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black friday pisses me the fuck off as an australian. whys that date? oh the friday after thanksgiving? so now we’re celebrating a colonial holiday on behalf of another country? and for what. 10% off lightning cables at jb hi-fi? i’ll fucking kill you
We already HAVE boxing day sales. What more do these shit companies want??
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"we need water you can eat. we need water composed primarily of minerals. we need water that calcifies you where you stand. water should not be water. water should be limescale." - the south of england
water should GRIND YOUR TEETH DOWN TO NOTHING. water should make you CHOKE ON ITS MINERAL AURA. water should COVER YOUR BELONGINGS IN CHALK. water is not water. WATER is LIMESCALE.
"water is a liquid" water is a type of ROCK. water is a solid. water is not water. water is over. water is a social construct. one day only limescale will remain.
this post appears to be confusing people. let me clarify very quickly: i love hard water, and soft water is disgusting. i cannot stand the taste. i've just been going through the limescale horrors recently.
A collection of my favourite pro and anti hard water tags
I myself am a fan of the tea bones
Yet another L for South England, the worst place in the universe
Yet another L
for South England, the worst place
in the universe
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Silk Velvet & Lace Evening Cape
1910s
Label: “Helene Balderal, London W.1”
Augusta Auctions
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The feminine urge to walk into the woods never to return.
The masculine urge to walk into the desert to never return.
The androgynous urge to walk into the ocean to never return.
For the oysters.
I can’t believe australian prime minister harold holt was nonbinary
hold on I gotta google something
I probably could've pieced that one together myself tbh
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Do you have any thoughts on the Eureka rebellion?
Or any thoughts on the modern use of the eureka flag?
Hm. How do I put this.
it's a very australian thing to band together under a flag for the middle/working class to "stick it to the man" to fight to keep jobs that Aboriginal people are being slaughtered to implement in the first place.
To paint you a picture of what the 1800's were like for Aboriginal people, I've got this picture from my time in Dampier:
When you're in a country that will kill you for no reason, you tend to divide things into two categories: "with Aboriginal people" or "against Aboriginal people" and there's no nuance because the shades of grey is where you die.
Unfortunately, Non-Indigenous people really love the shades of grey.
Anyway, it doesn't matter what it looks like, if you're waving around a blue flag with stars on it, stay away from me.
thanks to @micewithknives for this clarification. and also to @nationalritalinshortage for these tags:
Because the fact that the chinese came over to work on the goldmines is completely absent from a lot of australian's historical knowledge on early australia and this was back when australia was still a few british colonies so that makes Chinese-Australians just as much australian as white people🙄 a narrative conveniently left out of white nationalist narratives.
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What’s a food from your culture that u HATE #hatersonly
I expected Americans without another discernible cultural background to answer this with regional American dishes im getting taken out by people just saying stuff like “burger” and “mcdonalds”
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I know a lot of my followers are australian and posts about rap will go straight over your head because it's an american thing, but did you know when 2pac said they were putting crack into black neighbourhoods back in the 90's, that they're doing the exact same thing with Ice in the Aboriginal communities now? everybody who is poor, knows about it.
You'll never hear about this stuff in the news. Black art has always been a form of protest and music has always been a form of sharing knowledge quickly. Did you forget about "From Little Things Big Things Grow?"
Do you even know about "They Took Her Away" by A. Roach
Maybe you should care. Maybe you should care about Black people. Because it's our continual sacrifice that's holding this shit cunt of a country together. You think we would even have Uluru if it wasn't for our continual fight for land rights, and begging people not to climb it? they would have blown it up for iron ore just like they did for the Juukan Gorge. Do you think we would even have a reef for tourists to gawk at if it wasn't for our constant fight to protect the land and water?
Nobody's free until Black people are free, and I mean AMERICAN BLACK PEOPLE. Unlearn your fucking bias, because we can't work together if you're gonna continuously roll your eyes at americans, as if poor Black people aren't always on the ground doing all the hard work.
Literally everyone should go look up Charlie Perkins right now. If there’s one thing im gonna achieve from having followers on tumblr it’s an education about this
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Anonymous asked:
do you know much about australian ecology? do they teach anything about it overseas?
I don't know tonnes, but land management is one of my specialisms, and I actively put work into decolonising my curriculum as much as I can. Australia makes a fantastic comparator case study when teaching in Wales anyway, because it's almost totally opposing in terms of climate, ecology, etc, and that's very helpful as a teaching aid when trying to impress on them that there is no one size fits all solution with land management; but, also, I like to make sure they're considering cultural influences on land management, and Australia is sadly an excellent case study for discussions of colonial management systems and indigenous voice.
PLUS trees are my one true love lol.
Oh, also, Australia is a good example of an alternative seasonal system! Not everywhere has a four season cycle, and not everywhere uses planetary position to determine them (I personally argue that this includes the UK), but a lot of Aboriginal systems use hydrology to adhere to a six season cycle. Super fun case study that usually blows their minds, and then they go "Actually this makes so much sense..."
And then, of course, it comes up when teaching evolution and biogeography. So, yeah, a bit. But not tonnes.
:0 is there somewhere I can learn more about the 6 season system? (Google is no longer functional/reliable)
To you and the other people asking for more information in the tags. Google is a reasonable browser for a more niche topic like this still. But I’ll like a few good sources below.
Seasons of the Kulin peoples - Wurundjeri, Bunurong/Boonwurrung, Taungurung, Dja Dja Wurrung, and Wadawurrung.
It's currently Guling and we're about to enter Poorneet
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Anonymous asked:
do you know much about australian ecology? do they teach anything about it overseas?
I don't know tonnes, but land management is one of my specialisms, and I actively put work into decolonising my curriculum as much as I can. Australia makes a fantastic comparator case study when teaching in Wales anyway, because it's almost totally opposing in terms of climate, ecology, etc, and that's very helpful as a teaching aid when trying to impress on them that there is no one size fits all solution with land management; but, also, I like to make sure they're considering cultural influences on land management, and Australia is sadly an excellent case study for discussions of colonial management systems and indigenous voice.
PLUS trees are my one true love lol.
Oh, also, Australia is a good example of an alternative seasonal system! Not everywhere has a four season cycle, and not everywhere uses planetary position to determine them (I personally argue that this includes the UK), but a lot of Aboriginal systems use hydrology to adhere to a six season cycle. Super fun case study that usually blows their minds, and then they go "Actually this makes so much sense..."
And then, of course, it comes up when teaching evolution and biogeography. So, yeah, a bit. But not tonnes.
:0 is there somewhere I can learn more about the 6 season system? (Google is no longer functional/reliable)
To you and the other people asking for more information in the tags. Google is a reasonable browser for a more niche topic like this still. But I’ll like a few good sources below.
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Anonymous asked:
do you know much about australian ecology? do they teach anything about it overseas?
I don't know tonnes, but land management is one of my specialisms, and I actively put work into decolonising my curriculum as much as I can. Australia makes a fantastic comparator case study when teaching in Wales anyway, because it's almost totally opposing in terms of climate, ecology, etc, and that's very helpful as a teaching aid when trying to impress on them that there is no one size fits all solution with land management; but, also, I like to make sure they're considering cultural influences on land management, and Australia is sadly an excellent case study for discussions of colonial management systems and indigenous voice.
PLUS trees are my one true love lol.
Oh, also, Australia is a good example of an alternative seasonal system! Not everywhere has a four season cycle, and not everywhere uses planetary position to determine them (I personally argue that this includes the UK), but a lot of Aboriginal systems use hydrology to adhere to a six season cycle. Super fun case study that usually blows their minds, and then they go "Actually this makes so much sense..."
And then, of course, it comes up when teaching evolution and biogeography. So, yeah, a bit. But not tonnes.