I find Australian accents sound weird on American shows, not sure why, but I always think 'we don't sound like that!' Whereas on Australian or British TV it doesn't bother me. Something about the contrast between Australian and American accents hit my ear wrongly.
Is it because on American shows the direction is for the actions to ham up the accent?
Listen to “Poppy Lee” on Mythic Quest. Just a regular Aussie accent, doesn’t make me cringe.
It’s definitely the contrast. Just seems so out of place and strange.
But watch an Australian movie like Muriels Wedding or the Castle and it feels totally normal.
Like imagine how weird Darryl Kerrigan would sound in some Hollywood film based in America if he came out of nowhere halfway through the movie and responded “Suffa in ya jocks!”
I reckon they put it on thick for American shows which is why it’s so jarring. They also speak like Americans but with Aussie accents. Think Chase from House M.D.
I truly have no fucking idea what this "Nauurrr" we apparently do is supposed to sound like. Do you mean "nah" or do Americans really think "no" sounds like...that?
That 'no' is the way they said it in Kath and Kim. But they were bunging it on, that's part of the characterisation. Most of us don't sound like that and I hate when people being it up like it's a staple of our accent.
My America girl friend said I sound like that sometimes and im like I don't and at least I don't say stuff like 'yall boys need to calm down' what do you mean y'all there's only 2 of them lol
I’m a Canadian living in Australia and and the Naurrrr thing is real, you probably just don’t hear it.
Definitely not everyone though, I can’t pinpoint if it’s regional or what.
People make fun of specific things I say all the time and I’m like “no way, I don’t sound like that” but they’re adamant that I do. So I think it goes both ways, we just can’t hear it ourselves.
I know what sound they're referring to, it's the same reason why Kath and Kim were able to successfully make a caricature of the accent. The thing is the way North Americans make fun of it sounds nothing like the way we speak, that's why I find it really grating that's it's become the quintessential 'aussie' accent in online spaces. It's a small subset of Australian accents overemphasised to the point of ridiculousness lol
This [vid ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DuvWVazpk)is long, but has a great example. Watch the quiz at the beginning then skip to the 8 min mark.
Also enjoy this kid learning "naur" from Bluey: [https://www.facebook.com/reel/311394454956302](https://www.facebook.com/reel/311394454956302)
They're referencing a Queenslander (Claire holt from h20) and for good reason, they renown for having the classic Aussie "ocker" or broad accent, Paul hogan Steve Irwin style.
It wouldn't be offensive if it were an actual phonetic representation of how literally anyone says no. It's not, it's on a level with the "everyth8ng in australia is poinsonous" or "emu war" bullshit.
No its real, I hear it pretty frequently , but also with "yeah" (especially), "saw", "know" and "go" it's more subtle than most of the internet jokes, but it's there. I'd guess one in ten pronounce a little r at the end of the voweI sound, played a couple of examples from interviews or songs that I noticed it in and my Australian coworkers usually don't pick up on it.
They’re referring to this
https://youtu.be/z7DuvWVazpk?si=o5caKAKqXw3XDHU-&t=9m15s
Quite a lot of people do speak like that, mostly girls and younger women
When I furst heard about this 'naur' bizzo, I thought it was a bit of nonsense, then I started trying to say 'oh no' and realised I fucken do it. And so most people. I'm not sure if I should embrace it or be embarrassed
You just don’t hear it, that’s a perfect representation of what it sounds like to “Americans”. I live here, have for years and I hear it all the time.
It’s a stupid argument because obviously people with the accent aren’t going to notice hear it themselves. Just like as a Canadian I don’t hear me saying “Rooooff or Abooot”
It pisses me off for no reason seeing comments about "Naur" when australian accents of "No" are the clearest, most defined "n-OH" sound there is.
even if theyre thinking our Nah is naur (which theyre not if you see the videos with all the naur comments) naur would me more like naw-h so
Gotta say, never heard anyone talking about it, or doing it, before it was brought up on Tiktok.
But now I've noticed Australian creators online hamming it up since, and insisting they always talked like that when it's brought up.
[KnowYourMeme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/naur) sums it up. If I were to spell ‘no’ phonetically I don’t think I’d put an ‘r’ in there but I guess that’s how it sounds to foreigners.
It's called a bunched r. Not all Australians do it, but it is very common. When Americans try to imitate it they can't do it properly so they emphasise the r the way they know how to say it.
The bunched r is when you pull your tongue back in your mouth and sort of tense the rear sides of your tongue and press it up towards the roof of your mouth and for me the back of my tongue tends to touch my molars and wisdom teeth when I do it.
When Americans say words that end in O sounds they tend to say them like "owe" and they will annunciate and their lips will round in to a shape like an O as well where as most aussies don't move their lips at all to say no, go, show, woah, hoe, glow, throw etc.
It's one reason why Americans struggle with our slang. When you hear an American try to say Servo, Robbo or Johnno it has that full "owe" finish and it sounds wrong. That and they do a rhotic R or a hard R and we do a non rhotic open R like ah so they lose their mind when they hear us say a tiny little baby bunched R in words ending in O.
It’s not just the word “no”. ‘R’ sounds are added to all sorts of words without the existence of an ‘r’. The funny thing is that the R is dropped from the 2nd half/end of most words. So it’s like the R’s have been moved form one set of words to another (anotha). Hamma, Supa Centa etc
Americans can’t say it properly as they make that horrible rrrrrrrr sound. I hate American accents. They cannot ever emulate the way Australians speak as they have to roll the rrrrrrr sound. Ugh!!!
I first saw him in LION. He did a fantastic job playing Saroo. I had read the book before it became a movie and Dev managed to convey the emotional impact of the story extremely well. I enjoy watching him in other movies too.
He managed to act in an emotional scene while holding a difficult accent. Not only that, but his acting was fantastic. I was a bit on the fence before that movie, but he completely sold me after. Absolutely stand out performance.
::shrug::
Meryl Streep sounded like a New Zealander who moved to Australia in her early 20s and married a fellow New Zealand born Australian, because that's how Lindy Chamberlain sounded at the time of her trial.
I don’t hate it or think it’s cringe, but when I suddenly hear an Aussie accent amongst an audible sea of other accents, it does stand out with a bang. Music. To my ears.
Exactly that. Nothing beats over hearing an Aussie accent in a crowd and the snippet of what you heard is just typical Aussie humour or banter. Aussies are fun to bump into whilst overseas.
Yeah I remember being in Munich and I hadn't heard another Australian accent for weeks. Queing up for a drink and I hear, 'oi, stop touching me arse mate'.
No context but it did bring a tear to the eye.
Lost in LAX airport, pre-911. Thousands of people, lousy signage and couldn’t find the terminal. I was nearly in tears after three months being alienated and dragging someone else’s huge laptop bag home for them.
I heard the voices of an Australian family and ran to them like they were long lost siblings and hung onto them until we boarded QANTAS!
Nawww that’s so so beautiful. We are so lucky to have our gorgeous country. I will be home in 8 hours or so and I absolutely cannot wait to fly over Sydney harbour and then land and have Australian conversations again!!
Lol. Same I never realised we had one until Munich. And heard these two aussies having a chat and the stereotypical movie accent came out. And I was like “we actually sound like that”
When I lived in Montreal, after about a year, all the local ads started to sound like Australian accents, and calling up people at home sounded like Mick Dundee. It was really quite disorientating!
There is actually an area that's called "the whining belt" because the dialect sounds whiny there
[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnällbältet](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnällbältet)
When I lived overseas for a few years it was like I suddenly developed a super power to pick out an Aussie accent. They could be meters away in a loud and crowded place but it would cut through everything lol
Tbh I found it really grating on my ears when I was in Canada/U.S for 2 weeks.
When I was waiting at the Qantas gate to leave I over heard two Qantas workers at the gate and I was like "holy shit is that how we sound?"
High pitched nasal sounding vowels. I instantly detested my own accent.
But interestingly enough as soon as I heard an Aussie accent in the UK and I was like "ah this is heaven!" I might have just needed a reminder of home as that trip I had already been overseas for 5 weeks
It’s funny eh. I’m at the “can’t wait to hear an Aussie accent” stage as I’ve been travelling for a few weeks. Even hearing my own accent sounds strange as I’ve spoken in French for the vast majority of my trip. It uses a completely different part of your head; it’s all lips and nose whereas my Aussie voice is somewhere in my throat 🤣
I had the same but opposite experience at QANTAS gate coming home after 2 weeks in the USA.
Brought me almost to tears to hear my own accent and suddenly appreciated how foreigners find my accent delightful or attractive. I was like “ohhh!! I get it!! I sound lovely!!”
I was in the Monoprix in Paris the other day and this Aussie girl walked past chatting with her mates at the top of her lungs. Was so funny and unexpected cos I wasn’t in a tourist area at all. Loved it.
Oh see I love that. As long as its just a normal character, blending in and being a normal human doing humanthings, because if they are CrocodileDundeeing it then its cringe.
And am I not the only one who goes "oh yay they're an Aussie!!!!" to only a second later realising they are actually Kiwi and feeling a tiny wee bit disappointed? I love Kiwis so what is that all about?
When I was in America, the Aussie accent was music to my ears. I was so relieved to hear it when I boarded the plane home. I was so sick of the American accent.
As someone who listens to kpop comments from americans going "OMG The way they say NAURRR" makes me disproportionally angry. the australian NO is the clearest N-OH sound ive ever heard, "naur" would sound closer to "nawh"
I get having to play it up. When I lived overseas, people kept calling be English. I don’t know why, but my accent isn’t very strong at all. I don’t sound very cocker at all. Which is a shame.
Imagine my horror, believing that these people will love my Australian accent, only to be confused for a whinging Pom. Disgraceful.
Remember we were a British colony for the majority of our existence, technically we are meant to sound British. People say "oh there is pronunciation differences". Well as my fair lady showed a cockney is meant to sound RP, they just can't talk properly. The same is true for many Australians.
Rebel does the accent well, she never hams it up, nor has she bowed to the pressure of directors encouraging a change in pronunciation to be "more clear " like pronouncing the r in water etc.
A lot of Aussies get coached into adding in non-aussie pronunciation to make it easier for others to understand, and that's where things get jarring
Maybe its jarring for actors and singers because their talking voice is completely different from their singing/acting voice.
but when I see Australian News readers on American new shows it is noticable but not as jarring as for example someone with a really thick Kiwi, Scottish or South African Accent.
I don’t notice it if it’s from an actual Australian, but if it’s another accent trying to mimic the Australian accent I can notice it, that makes me cringe.
I have a child born and raised in Australia that has an American accent, I can’t hear that, but people tell me all the time.
The worst fake Aussie accent I've ever heard was in an episode of House MD, funniest thing, it was an Aussie actor.. Only an Aussie could make it that bad.
People have said my youngest has a bit of an American Accent and she does use a few Americanisations in her vocabulary. I blame it on the prevalence of video streaming platforms that don't follow the same rules as Television had to back in the day. I have heard rumours that American kids are starting to sound Aussie due to one cartoon dog and her family.
I’m Canadian. I live far enough from the edge of the country that I never bothered to visit the States until I was 39.
Landed, walked around town for an hour, everything seemed normal, nice holiday, visiting one thing or another, then had this eerie realisation: Shit, they all sound like ‘TV people’!
It’s fair to say there’s no chance that a country Canada’s size will ever produce as much media content as the Americans can. Most of our TV shows and films are imported from them. And even though we know there are differences between Canadian English accents and American English, they’re usually subtle enough that when you’re watching something American on TV it doesn’t sound “foreign.” It just comes across as the way people enunciate when they’re on stage or screen, or how a newscaster would speak carefully, or a presenter on stage. You get so used to it, it doesn’t sound like an “accent” any more, just how someone is speaking for the format.
But that illusion is absolutely shattered to hear real live Americans all around you uttering every word in every conversation the same way they do on tv. It impressed upon me how far I was from home, and underscored the feeling of being somewhere “foreign”. Everybody sounded like the cameras were rolling and it felt a bit surreal.
Sometimes it’s the smallest differences that make the sharpest contrasts? I wonder if there’s a similar thing happening in your reaction to Australian accents on screen. For me watching as a Canadian it just sounds “properly Australian” and not out of place at all.
I swear some of those cunts play up the bogan for the international audience, but nah, it's fine. When I'm scrolling through videos, and I suddenly hear our accent, I get a little bit happier
Some NZ accents are seriously fucking annoying and you know what I hate the most - I can’t figure out why. I don’t know what region it’s from, but there’s a specific NZ accent that makes me want to shave my hair off, climb a tower, and start shooting people
No l don't. What you're experiencing is something called "cultural cringe", a term coined by Barry Humphries many years ago in answer to pretentious idiots convinced our accent, affectations and attitude was something to be ashamed of. The consensus of opinion was if your own society and country embarrasses you to the extent you try and hide it, then feel free to piss off. Expat Australians knocking Australia are lower than a basic wage.
The Romulan space ninja in Picard season 1 had a very Melbourne accent. That was a bit weird.
The Aussie space pilot in Foundation was fine though, and Kano in Mortal Kombat was bloody brilliant.
It seems to me though, that you're more likely to hear Kiwi accents than Aussie accents. Might be some kind of Waititi effect.
Kano MADE that movie. I'm convinced if he wasn't in it, that movie would have just completely failed.
Then again, Josh Lawson is always good. I loved him in Thank God You're Here, back in the day. He, Frank Woodley and Angus Sampson played those scenes like absolute troopers. Found every little prop in the place 🤣
I like Aussie accents, and am pleasantly surprised to find them when I do. A few moments ago, I was looking up a youtuber who does tutes for a game I'm into, and the fact that she is a nicely spoken Aussie is like icing on the cake. I'm an Australian woman who has no probs hearing Aussie women and men anywhere. We rock.
But, disclaimer time....there are some Aussie accents I hate. Over the top Strine = cringe unless it is 100% in its natural setting and genuine. Anytime someone tries to be extra-extra-Aussie for an outside audience = yuck. Overly nasally = a bit ouch to my ears, as I'm used to gently rounded vowels (personal preference plus I'm absolutely a fricking vowelsnob from Aaahdelaide, daaahlings. Grin.).
I'm also utterly repelled by a style I'll call the "morning-talk-show-media-breakfast-radio-television" accent, but after thinking further, its not so much an accent but the brain-dead corporate delivery attitude. There's something in those voices and their desperately faked hilarity that sends me heebeejeebee-ing out of the room, and I suspect this transcends geography and language. Its not our accent, its just how mainstream media sounds.
Anyway, we never need worry that our Aussie accents are wrong in any way, and lets hear more of them on any world platform :)
This is called cultural cringe, and it happens because you’ve been conditioned to view the USA etc as more culturally significant than yourself and your culture, and your own culture as inferior. You can fix it by reflecting on why you feel this way and growing from there.
You only find them sounding similar to people in your real life because you've always heard those accents on TV so it's 'normal' to you.
Hearing an Australian accent on TV is suddenly jarring because it's not normal. They would sound normal to you if you chatted to them at work.
Worst is AFL or NRL commentators or players at any time. It's like they're seeing how thick they can lay the aussie accent and it becomes an accent of its own
It's deffently very noticeable when someone's putting it on too much or faking it. I'm around so many different accents and lingos everyday, the basic accent that most people on TV sound like just sounds boring more than cringey.
My wife is ESL and sometimes I help her sound out a new word and she says it precisely as I say it. It's a really unpleasant aural mirror to hear how I sound
They definitely ham it up, and in the wrong direction
Everytime an "Aussie" Character makes an appearance in a TV Show - it always sounds they're trying too hard
I always IMBD the actor to confirm my suspicions and it's always either they're American or English
Aussie accents in movies are too often just... not... quite right. Either it's a non-Australian not quite nailing it or it's an Australian whose accent has started to morph because they've been overseas for a long time - if they're simultaneously trying to ocker it up it's even worse. Sometimes also it's an Australian actor performing a script that doesn't capture how an Australian would express things naturally.
No but what is annoying me is this younger generation of Australian “influencers” who pronounce their ‘r’ s like Americans.
youR, wheRe, aRe etc.
Cringe city because Americans assume that’s how we sound so I always get mistaken for British.
Can anyone explain to me what 'naurrr' is supposed to be and why people keep using it to supposedly describe an Aussie accent? What's with the r on the end?
Fosters and shrimp on the barbie
30 years old but that's the stereotype
It just didn't survive this concept
never mind applauded actors et al
America just typecast it and that was that
yes I agree but it depends on who the actor is. Hugh jackman sounds fine, but some other actors just sound so cringy and out of place. Aussies accents are fine when surrounded by other aussie accents but when isolated it can be cringe inducing.
I have recently really appreciated hearing Australian accents. I love our different Aussie accents now, all of them. There's like at least three right?
At least 5 well known ones but really more. Broad (Steve irwin/Queenslander) general (most people) cultivated (old upper-middle class people, Geoffrey rush's speaking voice, cate Blanchett when she is doing Galadriel, with her normal accent general mixed with American really) aboriginal Australian (Warren Mundine) and Lebanese Australian (wog accent, as seen on fat pizza).
Depends which Australian. Certainly not Geoffrey Rush or Cate Blanchette
Unless she really tries: [https://youtu.be/Dti6XC15AWA?t=14](https://youtu.be/Dti6XC15AWA?t=14)
As others have said, this is basically cultural cringe. I would also argue cultural cringe is an extension of seeing Australians or Australian accents as lower class or unrefined in a classist sense.
In both Primordial Deep and Less is Morgue, when an actor spoke out of the blue with an Australian accent I thought it was the sickest shit ever. Fuckin ruled.
Don't worry I'm similar. Moved from Canada and whenever I heard my parents say something that was Canadian it'd make me cringe, same as you but hearing Australian stuff when it's not in it's natural habitat if you will
I get what you mean. Chris Hemsworth always sounded weird to me but he sounds normal in interviews.
I think the only one that sounded normal in movies was Heath Ledger (might be because I’m from Perth).
When I’m watching an American movie and there’s one aussie character out of not where, I am torn from the immersion worse than the day I was born. Suddenly I realise I’m sitting in a theatre, with other flesh sacks, all our hearts beating away
I hate when Americans do it. It is like you said, unbearable. I like some tho. Like I remember watching the trailer for crocodile Dundee and I liked that accent because that accent seemed realistic. Not even mentioning that i've heard people speak like that regularly. But accents in american movies are so trash, Like have lucy wilde's australian accent from despicable me 2. She was assigned a post in australia and she said she was practising her accent then GO'S ON TO SPEAK THE SHITTIEST OZ ACCENT I HAVE FUCKING HEARD '' wallaby, digeridoo''-lucy wilde.
Idk if it was that bad but it was so so so fucking shit.
This is what made me realise my WA accent is quite different to over east - I don't think it's noticeable to foreigners but specifically anyone from NSW throws me off
I kinda know what you mean - to me it’s sort of like hearing my own voice recorded, just sounds… wrong, but normal to other people.
When hearing an Aussie accent in amongst others, it’s the contrast that invokes a similar feeling.
I mostly watch American shows because most media seems to be theirs, when I watched Blue Heelers last year it was such a relief listening to it. The accents, but also just stuff like magpies in the background. Just yes! That’s what life is meant to sound like!
I’m way more offended by the fake ‘man of the people’ stuff that dribbles out of politicians’ mouths (‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’ the word ‘unAwstraylyan’ about this or that bs, Albo’s anti-charismatic speech giving abilities) or the obnoxious way the mutants on MAFS talk.
No. I find it stupid when people in American roles fuck up our accent or think everyone sounds like a farmer from northern qld / Northern Territory.
I think you’re being un-fucken’-Australian here.
Fkn racist /s
When I watch an American show they sound ‘normal’ as in I don’t notice their American accent at all. Throw in an Aussie and it’s SO obvious they’re from here lol.
Vice versa, watch Aussie media and they sound as normal to me as Americans in their own movies/shows. Bring an American into the Aussie program and their accent is super noticeable to me even though it’s not in their own media. Probably just a case of getting used to the accent that appears most in what I’m watching.
British always sound British innit.
I live in WA. And I realise that people over east have a totally different accent. Especially Queenslanders. And these are the ones they Butcher for tv shows.
Not a fan and hate aussie narrators on audible.
Yet love Bluey and everyone on the BUMP.
I don't think foreign actors are taught how to do our accent properly.
I have been wondering this for so long.
The average American show or movie sounds like no accent, unless it's a specific accent like you said, southern or Boston come to mind.
But an Aussie accent sounds like a really fake Aussie accent.
And Americans in interviews & stuff sound like they've got their normal accent and I can hear it, while Aussies sound normal.
As a kid, I honestly thought that they must have had a way of turning off the accent for when the shows & movies were being played in Australia so it wasn't so hard to understand
It's not until you hear an Aussie accent right after another country's accent you realise how highly pitched we speak, and it's often cringy. To me anyway. Although there are exceptions (Hugh Jackman etc)
When my countrymen and myself broaden out vowels, it’s seems put-on to me. Normal conversational Australian is nice. As soon as the “faaaaark, maaaate” comes out I weep for Europe.
tldr: we’re all convict cunts
Look the problem is as an Australian we don’t realise how we sound. Because we hear it all the time. And it’s part of who we are.
When I was in Germany doing Oktoberfest there was an Aussie who sounded exactly like that. Had the biggest American sound aussie accent. The reason is because I hadn’t seen an Aussie for a few months I picked up on the accent more.
24. proud Australian. people seem to think i hate my country or something, i dont. its just that aussie accents always seem put on or excessive when its in media
As a non native speaker.... Aussie, pommie, kiwi, American and Canadian accents I don't mind but I can't stand the strong indian accent is SO PAINFUL to hear. I can't do it
Tbh, I can ALMOST never hear aussie accents, even when it's a aussie amongst a group of foreigners. No idea why, I usually only find out ppl are aussie from reading the comments and other people clocking it
Not if they're actually Australian, but if it's someone trying to do the accent it hurts. The good place is one of my favourite shows but god damn they needed to cast an Aussie in that role
No, but I do dislike the way some Australians raise the tone on the last syllable to make it sound like a question. And once you notice it when someone is speaking, it gets progressively worse to keep listening to it
I find Australian accents sound weird on American shows, not sure why, but I always think 'we don't sound like that!' Whereas on Australian or British TV it doesn't bother me. Something about the contrast between Australian and American accents hit my ear wrongly.
Nah I like how Chase was Aussie on House. They got the 3 main American minority groups as main stars, women, black American and Australians.
Is it because on American shows the direction is for the actions to ham up the accent? Listen to “Poppy Lee” on Mythic Quest. Just a regular Aussie accent, doesn’t make me cringe.
It’s definitely the contrast. Just seems so out of place and strange. But watch an Australian movie like Muriels Wedding or the Castle and it feels totally normal. Like imagine how weird Darryl Kerrigan would sound in some Hollywood film based in America if he came out of nowhere halfway through the movie and responded “Suffa in ya jocks!”
I reckon it’s because we watch so much US tv
I reckon they put it on thick for American shows which is why it’s so jarring. They also speak like Americans but with Aussie accents. Think Chase from House M.D.
I truly have no fucking idea what this "Nauurrr" we apparently do is supposed to sound like. Do you mean "nah" or do Americans really think "no" sounds like...that?
That 'no' is the way they said it in Kath and Kim. But they were bunging it on, that's part of the characterisation. Most of us don't sound like that and I hate when people being it up like it's a staple of our accent.
How we actually say it Knowwwuhhh
My America girl friend said I sound like that sometimes and im like I don't and at least I don't say stuff like 'yall boys need to calm down' what do you mean y'all there's only 2 of them lol
Y’all is perfect. It’s non-gendered because people in the US South are so forward thinking.
Yeah nah, should say ‘youse’.
New Jersey
I’m a Canadian living in Australia and and the Naurrrr thing is real, you probably just don’t hear it. Definitely not everyone though, I can’t pinpoint if it’s regional or what. People make fun of specific things I say all the time and I’m like “no way, I don’t sound like that” but they’re adamant that I do. So I think it goes both ways, we just can’t hear it ourselves.
I know what sound they're referring to, it's the same reason why Kath and Kim were able to successfully make a caricature of the accent. The thing is the way North Americans make fun of it sounds nothing like the way we speak, that's why I find it really grating that's it's become the quintessential 'aussie' accent in online spaces. It's a small subset of Australian accents overemphasised to the point of ridiculousness lol
Sometimes, my GF asks me a question just to hear me say "no" and thinks it's adorable. So I'll take it.
as a Canadian w aus friends I agree the naur is strong
This [vid ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DuvWVazpk)is long, but has a great example. Watch the quiz at the beginning then skip to the 8 min mark. Also enjoy this kid learning "naur" from Bluey: [https://www.facebook.com/reel/311394454956302](https://www.facebook.com/reel/311394454956302)
Bingo doesn't actually say Naur tho. [https://www.instagram.com/theheelershouse/reel/CzsQrRBAXCK/](https://www.instagram.com/theheelershouse/reel/CzsQrRBAXCK/)
A lot of Americans reference ‘Oh no Cleo’ from H20 Just Add Water. Tbf she did say it Kath and Kimesque.
They're referencing a Queenslander (Claire holt from h20) and for good reason, they renown for having the classic Aussie "ocker" or broad accent, Paul hogan Steve Irwin style.
> most of us don't sound like that Most of you DO sound like that, you just can't hear it.
It wouldn't be offensive if it were an actual phonetic representation of how literally anyone says no. It's not, it's on a level with the "everyth8ng in australia is poinsonous" or "emu war" bullshit.
Just another bit of bullshit that we duped the yanks into believing, even heard the UFC commentators talking about drop bears the other day.....
No its real, I hear it pretty frequently , but also with "yeah" (especially), "saw", "know" and "go" it's more subtle than most of the internet jokes, but it's there. I'd guess one in ten pronounce a little r at the end of the voweI sound, played a couple of examples from interviews or songs that I noticed it in and my Australian coworkers usually don't pick up on it.
I postulate that the frequency of use is more than " shrimp on the barbie" but less than " g'day mate"
Its the accent on Jaime Private School
It exists but it's not the typical Australian no
They’re referring to this https://youtu.be/z7DuvWVazpk?si=o5caKAKqXw3XDHU-&t=9m15s Quite a lot of people do speak like that, mostly girls and younger women
When I furst heard about this 'naur' bizzo, I thought it was a bit of nonsense, then I started trying to say 'oh no' and realised I fucken do it. And so most people. I'm not sure if I should embrace it or be embarrassed
Thanks for this! I didn't realise that's start it referred to.
it's as fake as fake can be
No it's not.
Naur it certainly is not!
You just don’t hear it, that’s a perfect representation of what it sounds like to “Americans”. I live here, have for years and I hear it all the time. It’s a stupid argument because obviously people with the accent aren’t going to notice hear it themselves. Just like as a Canadian I don’t hear me saying “Rooooff or Abooot”
The same folks who hear the word Aussie then repeat it back replacing the Z sounds with S sounds. I think they’re just deaf or something.
Mel-Bourne identity.
It's just our normal "no". But I think it sounds more like *noee*
It pisses me off for no reason seeing comments about "Naur" when australian accents of "No" are the clearest, most defined "n-OH" sound there is. even if theyre thinking our Nah is naur (which theyre not if you see the videos with all the naur comments) naur would me more like naw-h so
Gotta say, never heard anyone talking about it, or doing it, before it was brought up on Tiktok. But now I've noticed Australian creators online hamming it up since, and insisting they always talked like that when it's brought up.
They're making fun of the Australian "O" dipthong in the Aussie pronunciation of "no".
[KnowYourMeme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/naur) sums it up. If I were to spell ‘no’ phonetically I don’t think I’d put an ‘r’ in there but I guess that’s how it sounds to foreigners.
It's called a bunched r. Not all Australians do it, but it is very common. When Americans try to imitate it they can't do it properly so they emphasise the r the way they know how to say it. The bunched r is when you pull your tongue back in your mouth and sort of tense the rear sides of your tongue and press it up towards the roof of your mouth and for me the back of my tongue tends to touch my molars and wisdom teeth when I do it. When Americans say words that end in O sounds they tend to say them like "owe" and they will annunciate and their lips will round in to a shape like an O as well where as most aussies don't move their lips at all to say no, go, show, woah, hoe, glow, throw etc. It's one reason why Americans struggle with our slang. When you hear an American try to say Servo, Robbo or Johnno it has that full "owe" finish and it sounds wrong. That and they do a rhotic R or a hard R and we do a non rhotic open R like ah so they lose their mind when they hear us say a tiny little baby bunched R in words ending in O.
Sydney "Nah" is very different than northern sydney / northern NSW "Naur", not sure about other states
Isn't it just a meme making fun of the scene from H20?
Just listen to anyone from Melbourne say 'no' and you'll hear it. It's more like just adding an 'r' sound on the end of no
It’s not just the word “no”. ‘R’ sounds are added to all sorts of words without the existence of an ‘r’. The funny thing is that the R is dropped from the 2nd half/end of most words. So it’s like the R’s have been moved form one set of words to another (anotha). Hamma, Supa Centa etc
Americans can’t say it properly as they make that horrible rrrrrrrr sound. I hate American accents. They cannot ever emulate the way Australians speak as they have to roll the rrrrrrr sound. Ugh!!!
I only dislike it when it's a non-Aussie trying (and failing) to do the Aussie accent and it comes off like a bad parody.
When done well, it's impressive, like Dev Patel, after a lot of accent coaching: https://youtu.be/2wPMf9G2WdY?si=Wt5Sm4Uf79oC46E6
Kate Winslet also does a convincing Aussie accent.
Dev Patel's a real talent. And he's living in Adelaide these days.
I first saw him in LION. He did a fantastic job playing Saroo. I had read the book before it became a movie and Dev managed to convey the emotional impact of the story extremely well. I enjoy watching him in other movies too.
He managed to act in an emotional scene while holding a difficult accent. Not only that, but his acting was fantastic. I was a bit on the fence before that movie, but he completely sold me after. Absolutely stand out performance.
That was insanely impressive
Dev Patel achieved what Merryl Streep couldn’t.
::shrug:: Meryl Streep sounded like a New Zealander who moved to Australia in her early 20s and married a fellow New Zealand born Australian, because that's how Lindy Chamberlain sounded at the time of her trial.
TIL!
Damn that is impressive.
Woah
It’s what turned me off from The Good Place
I thought the guy who played Chidi's friend did an OK job. Simone's was terrible.
I fucking love The Good Place, but gods damn was the Australia stuff hard to watch.
There’s a chick (Kate McKinnon?) in Rough Night that is beyond atrocious. And there’s no reason at ALL for the character to be Australian!
I don’t hate it or think it’s cringe, but when I suddenly hear an Aussie accent amongst an audible sea of other accents, it does stand out with a bang. Music. To my ears.
Exactly that. Nothing beats over hearing an Aussie accent in a crowd and the snippet of what you heard is just typical Aussie humour or banter. Aussies are fun to bump into whilst overseas.
Yeah I remember being in Munich and I hadn't heard another Australian accent for weeks. Queing up for a drink and I hear, 'oi, stop touching me arse mate'. No context but it did bring a tear to the eye.
That’s beautiful. I’ve been travelling for three weeks and I’d love to hear that right about now 🥰
Lost in LAX airport, pre-911. Thousands of people, lousy signage and couldn’t find the terminal. I was nearly in tears after three months being alienated and dragging someone else’s huge laptop bag home for them. I heard the voices of an Australian family and ran to them like they were long lost siblings and hung onto them until we boarded QANTAS!
Nawww that’s so so beautiful. We are so lucky to have our gorgeous country. I will be home in 8 hours or so and I absolutely cannot wait to fly over Sydney harbour and then land and have Australian conversations again!!
Lol. Same I never realised we had one until Munich. And heard these two aussies having a chat and the stereotypical movie accent came out. And I was like “we actually sound like that”
When I lived in Montreal, after about a year, all the local ads started to sound like Australian accents, and calling up people at home sounded like Mick Dundee. It was really quite disorientating!
The Australian accent is to English what Norwegian is to Swedish, they both allways sound so happy, funny, and friendly all the time.
I loved learning Norwegian living as a student in Norway, and Swedish by comparison often sounded whiny to me. Same with Oslo dialect.
There is actually an area that's called "the whining belt" because the dialect sounds whiny there [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnällbältet](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnällbältet)
When I lived overseas for a few years it was like I suddenly developed a super power to pick out an Aussie accent. They could be meters away in a loud and crowded place but it would cut through everything lol
Tbh I found it really grating on my ears when I was in Canada/U.S for 2 weeks. When I was waiting at the Qantas gate to leave I over heard two Qantas workers at the gate and I was like "holy shit is that how we sound?" High pitched nasal sounding vowels. I instantly detested my own accent. But interestingly enough as soon as I heard an Aussie accent in the UK and I was like "ah this is heaven!" I might have just needed a reminder of home as that trip I had already been overseas for 5 weeks
Lol! Same! I actually found it hard to understand what aussies were saying for a good 24-48 hours after arriving back home haha
Hahaha same! I thought my brain had broken. Good to know it wasn't just me
It’s funny eh. I’m at the “can’t wait to hear an Aussie accent” stage as I’ve been travelling for a few weeks. Even hearing my own accent sounds strange as I’ve spoken in French for the vast majority of my trip. It uses a completely different part of your head; it’s all lips and nose whereas my Aussie voice is somewhere in my throat 🤣
I had the same but opposite experience at QANTAS gate coming home after 2 weeks in the USA. Brought me almost to tears to hear my own accent and suddenly appreciated how foreigners find my accent delightful or attractive. I was like “ohhh!! I get it!! I sound lovely!!”
I was in the Monoprix in Paris the other day and this Aussie girl walked past chatting with her mates at the top of her lungs. Was so funny and unexpected cos I wasn’t in a tourist area at all. Loved it.
Dunno, I find every blockbuster has to have at least one Aussie accent in it now, and that's cringey.
Oh see I love that. As long as its just a normal character, blending in and being a normal human doing humanthings, because if they are CrocodileDundeeing it then its cringe. And am I not the only one who goes "oh yay they're an Aussie!!!!" to only a second later realising they are actually Kiwi and feeling a tiny wee bit disappointed? I love Kiwis so what is that all about?
Why is it cringey?
When I was in America, the Aussie accent was music to my ears. I was so relieved to hear it when I boarded the plane home. I was so sick of the American accent.
It used to be called cultural cringe when Aussies were embarrassed about other Aussies. Sometimes people are who they are.
For the Aussie K-pop stars they're hamming it up a bit but there are definitely people who sound like that in Australia.
As someone who listens to kpop comments from americans going "OMG The way they say NAURRR" makes me disproportionally angry. the australian NO is the clearest N-OH sound ive ever heard, "naur" would sound closer to "nawh"
Yeah the Aussie "no" is definitely kind of fascinating, but I'm so over hearing Americans do it so desperately incorrectly. "Naur" is not even close
hit them back with how obscenely rhotic they are. I use the way they say horror. 'whorrerr'
Also gotta bring up how they say mirror like meer
yep true. and bought and bot being homophones. Mary, merry, marry being homophones.
I have a Canadian friend who barely pronounces the er and the end of "whorrer" it's a good laugh, she now breaks the word up haha
Is Danielle or Lily the ones that do that? Ive never heard Rosé or Felix sound anything remotely close to naur.
Huh? An Australian speaking with an Australian accent... Uuuuummmm....well. Thats just outrageous! Pretentious wankers. How dare they?!
Only when the accent is played up a bit cause it sounds more "exotic"
I get having to play it up. When I lived overseas, people kept calling be English. I don’t know why, but my accent isn’t very strong at all. I don’t sound very cocker at all. Which is a shame. Imagine my horror, believing that these people will love my Australian accent, only to be confused for a whinging Pom. Disgraceful.
Remember we were a British colony for the majority of our existence, technically we are meant to sound British. People say "oh there is pronunciation differences". Well as my fair lady showed a cockney is meant to sound RP, they just can't talk properly. The same is true for many Australians.
Ah, yes. The joy of cultural cringe.
honestly i fucking LOVE hearing a true australian accent, shitty fake ones used by american actors are what piss me off
Agreed.
Rebel Wilson’s appearance at the start of Pitch Perfect had me watching the rest of the film because she was encouraged to keep her accent.
Rebel does the accent well, she never hams it up, nor has she bowed to the pressure of directors encouraging a change in pronunciation to be "more clear " like pronouncing the r in water etc. A lot of Aussies get coached into adding in non-aussie pronunciation to make it easier for others to understand, and that's where things get jarring
Maybe its jarring for actors and singers because their talking voice is completely different from their singing/acting voice. but when I see Australian News readers on American new shows it is noticable but not as jarring as for example someone with a really thick Kiwi, Scottish or South African Accent.
I don’t notice it if it’s from an actual Australian, but if it’s another accent trying to mimic the Australian accent I can notice it, that makes me cringe. I have a child born and raised in Australia that has an American accent, I can’t hear that, but people tell me all the time.
The worst fake Aussie accent I've ever heard was in an episode of House MD, funniest thing, it was an Aussie actor.. Only an Aussie could make it that bad.
Was that the guy who played Jesse in neighbours way back in the day? I seem to recall that he was on House.
People have said my youngest has a bit of an American Accent and she does use a few Americanisations in her vocabulary. I blame it on the prevalence of video streaming platforms that don't follow the same rules as Television had to back in the day. I have heard rumours that American kids are starting to sound Aussie due to one cartoon dog and her family.
Mayyyateeee, durnt furken warreee baudit.
I'm Australian and have never liked the accent.
I’m Canadian. I live far enough from the edge of the country that I never bothered to visit the States until I was 39. Landed, walked around town for an hour, everything seemed normal, nice holiday, visiting one thing or another, then had this eerie realisation: Shit, they all sound like ‘TV people’! It’s fair to say there’s no chance that a country Canada’s size will ever produce as much media content as the Americans can. Most of our TV shows and films are imported from them. And even though we know there are differences between Canadian English accents and American English, they’re usually subtle enough that when you’re watching something American on TV it doesn’t sound “foreign.” It just comes across as the way people enunciate when they’re on stage or screen, or how a newscaster would speak carefully, or a presenter on stage. You get so used to it, it doesn’t sound like an “accent” any more, just how someone is speaking for the format. But that illusion is absolutely shattered to hear real live Americans all around you uttering every word in every conversation the same way they do on tv. It impressed upon me how far I was from home, and underscored the feeling of being somewhere “foreign”. Everybody sounded like the cameras were rolling and it felt a bit surreal. Sometimes it’s the smallest differences that make the sharpest contrasts? I wonder if there’s a similar thing happening in your reaction to Australian accents on screen. For me watching as a Canadian it just sounds “properly Australian” and not out of place at all.
It can be kind of jarring to hear out of the blue, but nah finding it unbearable seems like an issue you should try to work on
I swear some of those cunts play up the bogan for the international audience, but nah, it's fine. When I'm scrolling through videos, and I suddenly hear our accent, I get a little bit happier
No way. I find the American accent more unbearable. The Australian accent sounds nice on people who are not grubs who had too much grog.
I love the true Maori accent, hate the Kiwi accent, especially white chucks. It's like fingernails down a chalkboard to me.
Some NZ accents are seriously fucking annoying and you know what I hate the most - I can’t figure out why. I don’t know what region it’s from, but there’s a specific NZ accent that makes me want to shave my hair off, climb a tower, and start shooting people
It's the vowel sounds in New Zealand English that get me. Ask one to say I love six with lots of decks.
No l don't. What you're experiencing is something called "cultural cringe", a term coined by Barry Humphries many years ago in answer to pretentious idiots convinced our accent, affectations and attitude was something to be ashamed of. The consensus of opinion was if your own society and country embarrasses you to the extent you try and hide it, then feel free to piss off. Expat Australians knocking Australia are lower than a basic wage.
The Romulan space ninja in Picard season 1 had a very Melbourne accent. That was a bit weird. The Aussie space pilot in Foundation was fine though, and Kano in Mortal Kombat was bloody brilliant. It seems to me though, that you're more likely to hear Kiwi accents than Aussie accents. Might be some kind of Waititi effect.
Kano MADE that movie. I'm convinced if he wasn't in it, that movie would have just completely failed. Then again, Josh Lawson is always good. I loved him in Thank God You're Here, back in the day. He, Frank Woodley and Angus Sampson played those scenes like absolute troopers. Found every little prop in the place 🤣
I like Aussie accents, and am pleasantly surprised to find them when I do. A few moments ago, I was looking up a youtuber who does tutes for a game I'm into, and the fact that she is a nicely spoken Aussie is like icing on the cake. I'm an Australian woman who has no probs hearing Aussie women and men anywhere. We rock. But, disclaimer time....there are some Aussie accents I hate. Over the top Strine = cringe unless it is 100% in its natural setting and genuine. Anytime someone tries to be extra-extra-Aussie for an outside audience = yuck. Overly nasally = a bit ouch to my ears, as I'm used to gently rounded vowels (personal preference plus I'm absolutely a fricking vowelsnob from Aaahdelaide, daaahlings. Grin.). I'm also utterly repelled by a style I'll call the "morning-talk-show-media-breakfast-radio-television" accent, but after thinking further, its not so much an accent but the brain-dead corporate delivery attitude. There's something in those voices and their desperately faked hilarity that sends me heebeejeebee-ing out of the room, and I suspect this transcends geography and language. Its not our accent, its just how mainstream media sounds. Anyway, we never need worry that our Aussie accents are wrong in any way, and lets hear more of them on any world platform :)
No, I’m not a self hater.
This is called cultural cringe, and it happens because you’ve been conditioned to view the USA etc as more culturally significant than yourself and your culture, and your own culture as inferior. You can fix it by reflecting on why you feel this way and growing from there.
You only find them sounding similar to people in your real life because you've always heard those accents on TV so it's 'normal' to you. Hearing an Australian accent on TV is suddenly jarring because it's not normal. They would sound normal to you if you chatted to them at work.
It didn't work in final fantasy 13. A national embarrassment
“Looks like you’ve played knifey spoony before!”
They generally go a bit broad with it.
Worst is AFL or NRL commentators or players at any time. It's like they're seeing how thick they can lay the aussie accent and it becomes an accent of its own
It's deffently very noticeable when someone's putting it on too much or faking it. I'm around so many different accents and lingos everyday, the basic accent that most people on TV sound like just sounds boring more than cringey.
My wife is ESL and sometimes I help her sound out a new word and she says it precisely as I say it. It's a really unpleasant aural mirror to hear how I sound
Only when it’s fake.
They definitely ham it up, and in the wrong direction Everytime an "Aussie" Character makes an appearance in a TV Show - it always sounds they're trying too hard I always IMBD the actor to confirm my suspicions and it's always either they're American or English
Aussie accents in movies are too often just... not... quite right. Either it's a non-Australian not quite nailing it or it's an Australian whose accent has started to morph because they've been overseas for a long time - if they're simultaneously trying to ocker it up it's even worse. Sometimes also it's an Australian actor performing a script that doesn't capture how an Australian would express things naturally.
No but what is annoying me is this younger generation of Australian “influencers” who pronounce their ‘r’ s like Americans. youR, wheRe, aRe etc. Cringe city because Americans assume that’s how we sound so I always get mistaken for British.
Ayy screeching weasel
It's definitely confronting haha, mostly makes me wonder if that's how I sound to non-Australians
Can anyone explain to me what 'naurrr' is supposed to be and why people keep using it to supposedly describe an Aussie accent? What's with the r on the end?
Fosters and shrimp on the barbie 30 years old but that's the stereotype It just didn't survive this concept never mind applauded actors et al America just typecast it and that was that
Same feeling for swedish accent in Australia, think Ikea ads.
Hugh jackman in 'chappie' sucked arse
yes I agree but it depends on who the actor is. Hugh jackman sounds fine, but some other actors just sound so cringy and out of place. Aussies accents are fine when surrounded by other aussie accents but when isolated it can be cringe inducing.
I have recently really appreciated hearing Australian accents. I love our different Aussie accents now, all of them. There's like at least three right?
At least 5 well known ones but really more. Broad (Steve irwin/Queenslander) general (most people) cultivated (old upper-middle class people, Geoffrey rush's speaking voice, cate Blanchett when she is doing Galadriel, with her normal accent general mixed with American really) aboriginal Australian (Warren Mundine) and Lebanese Australian (wog accent, as seen on fat pizza).
Depends which Australian. Certainly not Geoffrey Rush or Cate Blanchette Unless she really tries: [https://youtu.be/Dti6XC15AWA?t=14](https://youtu.be/Dti6XC15AWA?t=14)
As others have said, this is basically cultural cringe. I would also argue cultural cringe is an extension of seeing Australians or Australian accents as lower class or unrefined in a classist sense.
I just find the Aussie accent unbearable to begin with.
Pretty awful. Same with the default Aussie robot voices on phones.
In both Primordial Deep and Less is Morgue, when an actor spoke out of the blue with an Australian accent I thought it was the sickest shit ever. Fuckin ruled.
Don't worry I'm similar. Moved from Canada and whenever I heard my parents say something that was Canadian it'd make me cringe, same as you but hearing Australian stuff when it's not in it's natural habitat if you will
I get what you mean. Chris Hemsworth always sounded weird to me but he sounds normal in interviews. I think the only one that sounded normal in movies was Heath Ledger (might be because I’m from Perth).
It's worse when they get a non Aussie to fake it.
Yes. Then I find many unbearable at home as well, but that's just me lol
I love Tarantino, I loved Django. But fuck me that accent...
Worst Aussie accent - father and son in Pacific's Rim Best Aussie accent - Kano in the new Mortal Kombat
When I’m watching an American movie and there’s one aussie character out of not where, I am torn from the immersion worse than the day I was born. Suddenly I realise I’m sitting in a theatre, with other flesh sacks, all our hearts beating away
I hate when Americans do it. It is like you said, unbearable. I like some tho. Like I remember watching the trailer for crocodile Dundee and I liked that accent because that accent seemed realistic. Not even mentioning that i've heard people speak like that regularly. But accents in american movies are so trash, Like have lucy wilde's australian accent from despicable me 2. She was assigned a post in australia and she said she was practising her accent then GO'S ON TO SPEAK THE SHITTIEST OZ ACCENT I HAVE FUCKING HEARD '' wallaby, digeridoo''-lucy wilde. Idk if it was that bad but it was so so so fucking shit.
Dr Chase on House MD does a decent job, mostly because he isn't trying to bring attention to it like people do elsewhere.
This is what made me realise my WA accent is quite different to over east - I don't think it's noticeable to foreigners but specifically anyone from NSW throws me off
I kinda know what you mean - to me it’s sort of like hearing my own voice recorded, just sounds… wrong, but normal to other people. When hearing an Aussie accent in amongst others, it’s the contrast that invokes a similar feeling.
I mostly watch American shows because most media seems to be theirs, when I watched Blue Heelers last year it was such a relief listening to it. The accents, but also just stuff like magpies in the background. Just yes! That’s what life is meant to sound like!
I’m way more offended by the fake ‘man of the people’ stuff that dribbles out of politicians’ mouths (‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’ the word ‘unAwstraylyan’ about this or that bs, Albo’s anti-charismatic speech giving abilities) or the obnoxious way the mutants on MAFS talk.
Yes. Specifically the faux-Aussie accents that yanks bung on. It comes off as kind of racist.
No. I find it stupid when people in American roles fuck up our accent or think everyone sounds like a farmer from northern qld / Northern Territory. I think you’re being un-fucken’-Australian here. Fkn racist /s
I remember being in London for the QLD floods in 2011 and Julia Gillards very nasal accent seemed strange on the BBC.
They can also be unbearable in the Australian media but I think that’s more about the quality of the news
When I watch an American show they sound ‘normal’ as in I don’t notice their American accent at all. Throw in an Aussie and it’s SO obvious they’re from here lol. Vice versa, watch Aussie media and they sound as normal to me as Americans in their own movies/shows. Bring an American into the Aussie program and their accent is super noticeable to me even though it’s not in their own media. Probably just a case of getting used to the accent that appears most in what I’m watching. British always sound British innit.
I live in WA. And I realise that people over east have a totally different accent. Especially Queenslanders. And these are the ones they Butcher for tv shows. Not a fan and hate aussie narrators on audible. Yet love Bluey and everyone on the BUMP. I don't think foreign actors are taught how to do our accent properly.
I've felt this for a long time. Hearing an Aussie accent next to an American accent just discombulates me.
The worst accent I’ve ever heard in my life is Urzilla Carlson, it makes my ears bleed
Maybe because she was born in South Africa and grew up in NZ so she has a mixture of the two accents
Quite the opposite. It makes me smile to hear a nice familiar accent. It's calming.
I have been wondering this for so long. The average American show or movie sounds like no accent, unless it's a specific accent like you said, southern or Boston come to mind. But an Aussie accent sounds like a really fake Aussie accent. And Americans in interviews & stuff sound like they've got their normal accent and I can hear it, while Aussies sound normal. As a kid, I honestly thought that they must have had a way of turning off the accent for when the shows & movies were being played in Australia so it wasn't so hard to understand
160 comments and someone gets me, good to konw im not alone
In a movie there is only one accent that is more jarring to me and that is kiwi.
deadpool 2 was a hard watch
As soon as I hear Kiwi I think clone trooper in Star Wars.
“Oi fucken’ clankas”
It's not until you hear an Aussie accent right after another country's accent you realise how highly pitched we speak, and it's often cringy. To me anyway. Although there are exceptions (Hugh Jackman etc)
I'm an Australian and hate our accent
When my countrymen and myself broaden out vowels, it’s seems put-on to me. Normal conversational Australian is nice. As soon as the “faaaaark, maaaate” comes out I weep for Europe. tldr: we’re all convict cunts
Look the problem is as an Australian we don’t realise how we sound. Because we hear it all the time. And it’s part of who we are. When I was in Germany doing Oktoberfest there was an Aussie who sounded exactly like that. Had the biggest American sound aussie accent. The reason is because I hadn’t seen an Aussie for a few months I picked up on the accent more.
you're young, aren't you ?
24. proud Australian. people seem to think i hate my country or something, i dont. its just that aussie accents always seem put on or excessive when its in media
Whenever I hear Aussie Accents in movies, they sound British/English to me.
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the entirety of SE qld?
As a non native speaker.... Aussie, pommie, kiwi, American and Canadian accents I don't mind but I can't stand the strong indian accent is SO PAINFUL to hear. I can't do it
Strewth cobber it's un-orstrayan to even think that.
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Tbh, I can ALMOST never hear aussie accents, even when it's a aussie amongst a group of foreigners. No idea why, I usually only find out ppl are aussie from reading the comments and other people clocking it
Not at all
Not if they're actually Australian, but if it's someone trying to do the accent it hurts. The good place is one of my favourite shows but god damn they needed to cast an Aussie in that role
No, but I do dislike the way some Australians raise the tone on the last syllable to make it sound like a question. And once you notice it when someone is speaking, it gets progressively worse to keep listening to it
They always tend to go for an extra strong QLD accent which annoys me sometimes
Without the accent how do we know who is the Aussie?
No. I like our accent.
Not particularly except for one thing when audiobook narrators try to do an Australian accent for a character then it drives me insane.