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Quiz: can you pick a Victorian from a Queenslander? How our accents change from state to state

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://theconversation.com/quiz-can-you-pick-a-victorian-from-a-queenslander-how-our-accents-change-from-state-to-state-250908

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  • joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Having my millionth conversation with a Victorian about South Australians calling “power poles” Stobey Poles. That’s because that’s what they are.

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you! I didn’t know what to call these since moving to Adelaide. They are everywhere!

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  • noorbeast@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its language use not just accent, so a Victorian would say a bag, a Queenslander would say a port.

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    • CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m an almost life long QLDer and ‘a port’ to me would mean a fortified wine…

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    • TimePencil@infosec.exchange ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      @noorbeast

      Port? Use of "port" to denote a bag, suitcase, or other "carry all"?

      Only octogenarians use "port" in this manner...

      @maniacalmanicmania

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  • quokka1@mastodon.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @maniacalmanicmania they're all dirty easterners

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m one of them, only recently moved to Adelaide.

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  • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, the Victorian is telling me about Melbourne is the best place to get coffee and the Queenslander is trying to sell me magic mushrooms, at a good price tho.

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    • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What about a Westralian?

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      • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We’re either selling you crack or offering you a FIFO job.

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      • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Tax free miners getting rich of our resources. Our politicians getting fat jobs with them after finishing with government. Etc.

        Easy to spot WA folk. They’re all slightly ashamed that they’re part of the reason we don’t have free hospitals, university and a higher standard of living.

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      • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Something… something… SAND!!!.. something… minesite… something… something… the Ore must flow.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gets more ocker the higher north ya go

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