I’ve spent my Saturday night reading about Australian currency and the Reserve Bank’s anti-counterfeit methods. Holy cow, there are a lot of hidden secrets in that Monopoly money!
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I’ve spent my Saturday night reading about Australian currency and the Reserve Bank’s anti-counterfeit methods. Holy cow, there are a lot of hidden secrets in that Monopoly money!
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Things that I and most Australians cannot take seriously for even a moment ever:
- Eric Bana
- The Saw movies
Don’t get me wrong, more power to the dudes in question, but every time I see someone talking about how hot Eric Bana is or anything to do with the Saw movies I’m…
I still yell “AB-A-DABAS” every time I see Eric Bana.
(via wehaveallgotknives)
Regional variation relates to speech characteristics that are common to people from different localities. They can serve as markers of regional identity.
In Australia there is not a lot of regionally-based accent variation compared with most other world Englishes, however, there are lots of vocabulary differences. See the ABC’s Australian Word Map for some details.
There are, however, a few regionally-distributed phonetic features. Here are some examples.
My Queenslandese is slightly vindicated. Now I’m going to have a kip before I pack my port full of Nikkos and Poppas.
(via -frabjousday)