Okay, it finally makes sense to me, well, maybe. As a yank, it has always been easy for me to tell the difference between a British accent and an Aussie accent, they really are quite different, but I've always wondered how that happened, so here we have a theory that makes some sense. Theory aside, I've always preferred talking to an Aussie than a Brit.
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Aussies slur their words and use only two-thirds of their mouth to speak because early settlers spent most of their days DRUNK, academic says
The Australian language developed because early settlers were often drunk
Academic claims the constant slurring of words distorted the accent
The average Australian speaks to just two thirds capacity
The drunken speech has been passed down from generation to generation

By Neil Sears for Daily Mail Published: 20:08 EST, 27 October 2015 | Updated: 01:29 EST, 28 October 2015

The Australian accent developed because so many early settlers were drunk and slurring, an Australian academic has claimed.The first British arrivals to the country were such big drinkers that the distortion to their speech caused a verbal hangover that persists to this day, according to Dean Frenkel, a communications expert at Victoria University in Melbourne.Proud Australians may be offended by the claim, which comes on top of the unavoidable truth that Australia began its modern life as a penal colony for our criminals.

But academic Mr Frenkel unashamedly wrote in Australian newspaper The Age: 'Let's get things straight about the origins of the Australian accent. 'The Australian alphabet cocktail was spiked by alcohol. 'Our forefathers regularly got drunk together and through their frequent interactions unknowingly added an alcoholic slur to our national speech patterns. 'For the past two centuries, from generation to generation, drunken Aussie-speak continues to be taught by sober parents to their children. 'Bemoaning the still 'slurred' Australian accent, Mr Frenkel continued: 'The average Australian speaks to just two thirds capacity - with one third of our articulator muscles always sedentary as if lying on the couch; and that's just concerning articulation. 'Missing consonants can include missing "t"s (Impordant), "l"s (Austraya) and "s"s (yesh), while many of our vowels are lazily transformed into other vowels, especially "a"s to "e"s (stending) and "i"s (New South Wyles) and "i"s to "oi"s (noight). 'Concluding with a call for Australians to improve their diction, the academic added: 'It is time to take our beer goggles off. 'Australia, it is no longer acceptable to be smarter than we sound.'

Previous accent theories have included suggestions that the Australian accent is a true reflection of the 18th and 19th century accents of British arrivals, while the American accent reflects the way 17th century early settlers from Britain spoke.

The suggestion has been that it is native English accents which have changed, while former colonies have clung to old ways of speaking.Winston Churchill described the Australian accent as 'the most brutal maltreatment ever inflicted upon the mother tongue.'

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3292648/The-Australian-alphabet-formed-drunken-speech-settlers.html

Nope, the Aussie accent is about efficiency.

Take whatever sentence you are going to say and make it one word. Take whatever word you are going to say and shorten it. Communication with the least effort.

This came about because its a hot, hard place, with not much drinking water and Aussies just liked to shut up and get the job done. Then they could have a drink.

My ancestor's were convicts here 3rd fleet and we survive today, talking is so phucken overrated any who likes to talk alot I avoid like the plague

I thought the Aussies slur was can't. Just use that or eh at the end of a sentence (if yr from nq)

ha ha ha

A Yank is accusing Aussies of not talkin' properly !

If the Aussie accent is due to drunkards then what is the Yank accent all about ?

Quote:’Concluding with a call for Australians to improve their diction, the academic added: ‘It is time to take our beer goggles off. 'Australia, it is no longer acceptable to be smarter than we sound.’ Unquote

Nor is it acceptable in Australia to act smarter than you really are..

I just love those shows like American gator hunting, where subtitles are required because WE can't understand the Queen's English...

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Carantoc said..
ha ha ha

A Yank is accusing Aussies of not talkin' properly !

If the Aussie accent is due to drunkards then what is the Yank accent all about ?

Hardly, you just took a leap of logic that left you in the mud before the land.
Never implied that.
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" Theory aside, I've always preferred talking to an Aussie than a Brit."

Not that there is anything wrong with Brits, but it's easier to understand Aussies.
The American accent, we're all bastards from all over the world, so this is what you get, or geeeeet, if I lived in Texas.

"Aussies slur their words and only use two thirds of their mouth to speak because" . . . .

............It stops the bloody blowies from getting inside the other third.

............Because why use all your mouth when the American you are talking to only has two thirds of a brain?

...........Because most Americans have two ears but often don't use either of them to listen to what's being said so why bother using all your mouth?

...........Because we can.

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Mastbender said..
Okay, it finally makes sense to me, well, maybe. As a yank, it has always been easy for me to tell the difference between a British accent and an Aussie accent, they really are quite different, but I've always wondered how that happened, ...

Well done on being able to tell the difference , but the fact is that most Americans have trouble distinguishing any English language accent that is not their own,and therefore assume they are all the same/similar. Put a group of English, Aussies, Kiwi's, Sappers, Irish, Scottish..++ in a room and most americans will have no clue...but in reality the differences are just as strong as a US accent/s

Time, population and distance/isolation are factors that drive accents. The US has had all that in spades so hence the huge diversification in accents. It still started a British colony though...

As for the aussie accent.....that article is a good example of an Aussie "taking the piss". If being drunk was a key to a slurring accent the Irish, Polish and Russians would be unintelligible... oh wait, remove the Irish, poor example........

A little visit to funny images should set you on the right track re English (USA):

If that was true then after successive generations of heavy drinking the aussie accent would be pretty much unintelligible by now. Although talking to some people makes you wonder..

So I was helping out on a bike race across the US and one of the boys crashed, had to go to hospital. 5 of us were there at the hospital, three Aussies and 2 Poms. The nurse was a gorgeous blonde, really friendly, helpful and chatty.

At one point though, she actually said....... "Isn't this interesting, you Australians, your first language is English like us Americans." The she looked at one of the Poms and asked "what language do you speak in England?"

Stunned silence all round!!

I had a feeling that this thread might be somewhat entertaining, and as for me being able to converse with Aussies better than Brits, maybe it's because we have similar backgrounds, drinking.
Not sure what you guys really prefer though, but for me and most of my crew, aside from beer, it's tequila, very big on the west coast, where I'm at.
In fact, beer and tequila go very good together, take a swig out of a beer, then replace it with a shot tequila, add a twist of lime, and then you have a Baja fog, one of the best drinks after a long session in the ocean, cuts right thru the salt mouth.

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Mastbender said..
I had a feeling that this thread might be somewhat entertaining, and as for me being able to converse with Aussies better than Brits, maybe it's because we have similar backgrounds, drinking.
Not sure what you guys really prefer though, but for me and most of my crew, aside from beer, it's tequila, very big on the west coast, where I'm at.
In fact, beer and tequila go very good together, take a swig out of a beer, then replace it with a shot tequila, add a twist of lime, and then you have a Baja fog, one of the best drinks after a long session in the ocean, cuts right thru the salt mouth.

Just stick with beer, you last longer, and get to see more fun as the Bar Bees progress. Cant recall, but Australia coined the phrase Macca's for McDonald outlets.
Masty, could have done with you on one or two trips I had to the US. I got sick to the back teeth of constant "pardon" when yarning a bit or at a food outlet. Must admit, my accent is a little more skewed than most, having grown up in one of the Western regional areas where the locals outnumbered us white kids

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Paradox said..


Put a group of English, Aussies, Kiwi's, Sappers, Irish, Scottish..++ in a room and most americans will......

more than likely soon be filling out witness statements at the local copshop


stephen

I thought the slur was to stop flies getting in your mouth :P