Are you able to tell the Australian accents apart?

(waxdart hello., Fri 13 Aug 2010, 15:14, 3 replies)

That one's easy
Melbourne sounds OK, Brisbane Bogan is vile...
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 15:23, closed)

No.
But I can certainly tell an American from an Australian, an Englishman from an Australian etc. Furthermore I have no doubt that if two very different Australian accents were demonstrated to me, I would immediately pick up on it.

I'm good with accents, me.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 16:28, closed)

I can tell
east and west Australian apart, which I know is pretty limited, but still. I'm starting to be able to narrow down my recognition of American accents to states rather than compass points, which I'm pretty proud of :D
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Fri 13 Aug 2010, 17:20, closed)

There's not really more then about 3 or 4
You've got city people - who speak in a much more eloquent manner, and then you have people from queensland, who say "ay?" at the end of every sentence. There's people from Adelaide - they're very refined thank you very much (though they sound posh). Then there's people like me, who live in the countryside, and have a broad, slow, twangy accent.

And there are your aussie accents in a nutshell.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 14 Aug 2010, 7:37, closed)