Thread: The reason why Australians sound drunk all the time

Australians Sound Drunk All the Time Because Their Ancestors Were Drunk All the Time, Claims Communications Expert

-On Monday an Australian communications expert claimed his country's accent is the result of a "drunken slur" stemming from Australia's early settlers and their habit of being hammered all the time. This should surprise no one. It's a wonder this connection is only being made now, in 2015. For reference, here is a pitch-perfect impression of the Australian accent.

The expert, Dean Frenkel, is a lecturer in public speaking and communication at Victoria University (pronounced VIK-TOREE-UR UNI-VARSAH-TAYE). He made the claim in the Australian paper the Age. "The Australian alphabet cocktail was spiked by alcohol," he writes. "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."

Frenkel's piece isn't designed to insult so much as inform, and in it he calls on Australian schools to put more emphasis on linguistics. He also asks his fellow countrymen to stop it with the missing consonants and "lazily transform[ing]" vowels into other vowels.

"The average Australian speaks to just two thirds capacity with one third of our articulator muscles always sedentary as if lying on the couch...

http://www.vice.com/read/australians...l-the-time-192

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