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Amazing video from a rockpool in Western Australia.
I hope the embed works!
Cheers,
John K
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Don't mean to sound patronizing, just think it sounds cute as hell in this particular video. Actually, I've always thought the OZ accent sounds nice (or at least usually).
Oh, and an amazing video it is. I had no idea that it was common until I read b.l.zeebub's response. You learn something new every day.
Poor little crab.
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She sounds like a million other Aussie women.
This one does something for me!
She could talk all day, all night. I'd listen.
Cheers,
John K
... d:o)
The Aussie accent varies a hell of a lot, almost as much as the USofA accent.
We have our fair share of people who are difficult to understand. I always shake my head when I see/hear a news interview with subtitles, especially when the speaker is supposedly speaking English. (oh, that's not aimed at you JT)
Generally I like most of the USofA accents as long as I can actually understand it. I *think* I enunciate my words clearly but I remember speaking to a telephone operator in the States one time and I needed to resort to the phonetic alphabet to get connected to the correct person.
I have some northern English friends who are rather hard to understand but not as hard to understand as some of the Scots!
Oh, octopi have a beak which can crush a crab's shell easily. We have used small rock crabs as bait to catch octopus. However I find octopi to be such fascinating creatures I find it hard to kill them. But I admit they are very tasty to eat :)
Smile
Sox
In my opinion, there is no such thing as no accent, only different accents, and I mostly like them all. I would characterize mine as neutral American, as though I was from Ohio or somewhere out there. I was born in Boston and have lived most of my life in or near the city, but I have no regional accent at all. Why some do and some don't is kind of interesting, but a topic for another day.
Oh, and I really like the northern England accent. Probably because I met a girl from Newcastle years ago who was adorable. Could have sat and just listened to her talk for hours.
My brother in law, who was born in Seoul and lived in South Korea his who life, is becoming an Australian citizen and speaks like he was born there already. It's amazing, because a few years ago when I saw him in Korea, and before he'd made the move, he spoke American English like a native from the midwest, probably because he'd been a Katusa in the ROK army, working with GIs the whole time.
Yes, you and I have spoken by telephone, and we found each other remarkably comprehendible, and, dare I say, lucid too! :-)
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If you haven't seen it, here's Robin Williams take on "Scot Speak". NSFW, due to language, of course.
I was in the States recently and met a few guys from Alabama. It was an interesting conversation on Whisky, Moonshine, women and food, and we managed just fine. (Say that one more time.....)
When travelling in the US once I met up with a very pretty Birmingham Alabama girl for a drink - she was a friend of a friend who I stopped in town to see.
We were at a bar and she said "Just keep talking, I don't care what you're saying, just keep talking!".
I could have said exactly the same thing to her :-)
Cheers,
John K
As I just responded to Soxie, I met a girl from Newcastle, UK, years ago, who could have kept my attention by reading the dictionary. Ahhh, she sounded sweet . . . to me anyway. Not sure it was reciprocal though.
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in early 1991 I met Sharon Shannon at a 3 day Irish music fest at Fort Mason in San Francisco. She played and I was slayed. After her set I had her sign the LP (her first) and talked to her for awhile. I asked if she wanted to have a smoke and see the sunset....amazingly she said sure....so we wandered out to the end of the pier on SF Bay and rolled up a smoke, the sunset was amazing as it dropped beneath the Golden Gate Bridge...
Finally I told her to just talk as I was tripped out her Irish lilt....she said we could both talk at once as she liked my American accent as well.
She was very shy when she played but was an amazing squeezebox artist, I told her she was the Jimi Hendrix of her instrument....later years I read interviews and she talked about a guy in San Francisco that called her the JH of the squeezebox..
Here she is in 1992....a smile to die for...various tunes/There are some great jams including Mike Scott of the Waterboys and you can hear Sharon talk too..
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after the gig she honored my invite for dinner and so off we two went, the fog rolling in, a typical SF night. I do not recall where we ate, it was a small Italian place that was perfect...All I wanted to do was hear that lilt...I was smote. There is more but that is all I will talk about...later Steve Earle went to Ireland, saw her and he too was smote, he wrote this song for her....
Back 71 or 72 I met Linda Ronstadt in a nighclub in Philly.
We hung out for a while, had a couple drinks, then went back to the convention.
were up at Neil's ranch doing Harvest they popped into 2 (at least) local bars and joined the jam sessions...
Hearing them sing without amplification was a absolute joy....
Alcohol and shit was involved...
I'm a Yankee who lives in the south. Actually, I'm a damn Yankee, 'cause I stayed (so say my southern brethren).
I moved south to chase work, and a woman I was dating at the time moved here a month or two ahead of me. She complained that she couldn't understand anybody, but I figured she was exaggerating, because she tended to complain about everything.
When I finally moved, I had to agree with her, some of the southern accents were difficult for me to understand. Now, after twenty years here, I hardly notice the accent, unless it's a very strong (or as they say here, "real country") accent. Now when I visit the Boston MA area, the "Put the cah in the yahd" speak sticks out to me like a sore thumb.
It certainly helps when you have a common interest (Whiskey, Moonshine, women and food, etc.) to focus on, as you said.
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But a few do!
That's a Mike Judge characterization of a Texas bumpkin. Awesome! :-)
There are some pretty cool videos of Mike Judge doing his various characters.
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...the upper class english version:
Hilarious. I'm wiping the tears from my eyes. I'll need to listen to that again.
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It's from The Fast Show.
Just type that into youtube and watch the lot. It is one of the if not the funniest show ever.
You won't regret it!
from the very funny "Fast Show". Some of his characters are very cleverly done.
he does'nt hold back, does he?
BSEGrin.
Thanks for the recommendation>
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
When I was in northern England, one of the castle guards told a funny anecdote about a couple of girls from the States protesting that THEY didn't have an accent! As if...one day while at the deli counter in Alnwick I was told that I "have a lovely accent". It's hard to imagine what my midwestern rasp sounded like to the Brits. Or would sound like to an Aussie, for that matter, because Oz is on the bucket list.
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
I found some of the Geordies to be harder to understand than the Scots, but as you've noted, it varies. One Scot in particular stands out in my memory - I think I understood every third word.
scared the sh!t out of the camera person too!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I was surprised at the speed of the octopus. I guess he really had the desire for a crab meal?
Nice to be able to see that in a rock pool and without the need of scuba gear but other than that fairly normal since crabs are an octopus' main diet.
A few years ago I read about a public marine aquarium and that they were wondering what happened to their 4ft sharks in one tank.
After they lost a few sharks they set up a surveillance camera only to find out that the tanks resident octopus was killing and eating them over night.
Man, those Octopi sure must have ENORMOUS stomachs!
A 4' long shark eaten WHOLE? By a single octopus?
I'm never going in the ocean again........ ;-)
Not the whole thing but the staff had no idea what was killing the sharks since octopi usually eat crustaceans.
Just avoid night swimming in the pacific north-west as those waters are home to the largest of the species. They average about 15kg (33lb) but individuals almost 80kg have been reported.
I wouldn't piss them of because each of their suckers can lift about 15kg and they have hundreds on each arm!
That said the most dangerous one is the australian blue-ringed octopus.
It is tiny, really big ones are about the size of the one in the video above. However they are extremely venomous as their venom is 1000(!)x more potent than cyanide.
Each one carries enough poison to kill 25 humans in minutes. They weigh about an ounce and are very docile until they bite.
Octopi are by far the most intelligent of all invertebrate and quite quick in learning how to unscrew a jar for example. A task many higher vertebrates never master.
PS: If you didn't notice I have a bit of a soft spot for them. In particular this one:
The Spanish and Central and South Americans make some wonderful octopus dishes, as do the Koreans. Yum.
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Being intelligent doesn't stop animals from being tasty!
I am now contemplating an octopus starter followed by a roast pork main. ;-)
http://youtu.be/F5fZu-1bt6Y
Cheers,
John K
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