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

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• joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • TimePencil@infosec.exchange ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• quokka1@mastodon.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @maniacalmanicmania they're all dirty easterners

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about a Westralian?

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gets more ocker the higher north ya go

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