{"id":33587,"date":"2015-11-15T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33587"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:39:59","slug":"do-australians-sound-drunk-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/15\/do-australians-sound-drunk-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Australians sound drunk to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/10\/28\/drunken_slurring_aussies_strine_forefathers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lester Haines<\/a> on how and when the distinctive &#8220;Strine&#8221; accent originated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Australians&#8217; distinctive accent \u2013 known affectionately as &#8220;Strine&#8221; \u2013 was formed in the country&#8217;s early history by drunken settlers&#8217; &#8220;alcoholic slur&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This shock claim, we hasten to add, comes from Down Under publication <em>The Age<\/em>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/comment\/the-fourth-r-missing-from-australian-education-20151025-gkhv8k.html\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the past two centuries, from generation to generation, drunken Aussie-speak continues to be taught by sober parents to their children.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The paper reckons that not only do Aussies speak at &#8220;just two thirds capacity \u2013 with one third of our articulator muscles always sedentary as if lying on the couch&#8221;, but they also ditch entire letters and play slow and loose with vowels.<\/p>\n<p>It elaborates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Missing consonants can include missing &#8220;t&#8221;s (Impordant), &#8220;l&#8221;s (Austraya) and &#8220;s&#8221;s (yesh), while many of our vowels are lazily transformed into other vowels, especially &#8220;a&#8221;s to &#8220;e&#8221;s (stending) and &#8220;i&#8221;s (New South Wyles) and &#8220;i&#8221;s to &#8220;oi&#8221;s (noight).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The upshot of this total disregard for clear English is that our Antipodean cousins are poor communicators and lack rhetorical skills, something which could cost the Australian economy &#8220;billions of dollars&#8221;, as <em>The Age<\/em> audaciously quantifies it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Haines on how and when the distinctive &#8220;Strine&#8221; accent originated: Australians&#8217; distinctive accent \u2013 known affectionately as &#8220;Strine&#8221; \u2013 was formed in the country&#8217;s early history by drunken settlers&#8217; &#8220;alcoholic slur&#8221;. This shock claim, we hasten to add, comes from Down Under publication The Age, which explains: The Australian alphabet cocktail was spiked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,7,73],"tags":[104,262,400],"class_list":["post-33587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-history","category-randomness","tag-booze","tag-culture","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8JJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33589,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33587\/revisions\/33589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}