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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 341795" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>When I was a kid, Australia was afflicted with what we called the "cultural cringe". We were collectively ashamed of our "poor cousin" label and felt a need to put England on a pedestal. Anyone who wanted to achieve more, would go to England to work. We had to be taught to speak "Educated Australian" which resembled a BBC announcer. If you were an Aussie who wanted to do better in life, you had your kids taught elocution. In fact a lot of schools, private schools especially, had elocution lessons in the curriculum.</p><p></p><p>I was one kid who was taught elocution ("Speech and Drama") which I was too good at; for years I was mocked at school for "talking posh". It took me years to learn how to sound "ocker" (like Russell Crowe). I've now moved back to my earlier "posh" style now I'm no longer working with "blokes". I had to sound like one of the boys, so I ockered up well.</p><p></p><p>But we can always tell the difference between a British accent and an Aussie one. In fact, like "Pygmalion" by G B S Shaw, we can 'hear' the difference between the different British accents and often place a person's origins by their accent.</p><p></p><p>I agree that a British accent is one of the easiest to understand - and yet when Dr Catherine Hamlin was on Oprah (talking about the Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia), her beatifully clear British accent was SUBTITLED! I've watched Oprah at times and had difficulty understanding the occasionally really strong country US accent.</p><p></p><p>I also find accents fascinating. easy child 2/difficult child 2's acting aims led her to buy a popular book for serious Aussie actors called "Speaking American". It's an interesting book; it comes with a CD of vocal exercises but is aimed at teaching Australians how to speak with the US accent most preferred by casting agents in the US. Seriously - this will be the book used by the likes of Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, Simon Baker etc. But it gives fascinating history into the development of the US accent in various regions. It's interesting - the US accent in a lot of places, and the Aussie accent in a lot of places both originated with a lot of Irish influence, but because the timing was subtly different and because of the other influences, it has gone in different directions.</p><p></p><p>I think the film name in the US was "Cry in the Dark". I'm trying to look it up on IMDB but they've changed their website so it's really clunky at the moment.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 341795, member: 1991"] When I was a kid, Australia was afflicted with what we called the "cultural cringe". We were collectively ashamed of our "poor cousin" label and felt a need to put England on a pedestal. Anyone who wanted to achieve more, would go to England to work. We had to be taught to speak "Educated Australian" which resembled a BBC announcer. If you were an Aussie who wanted to do better in life, you had your kids taught elocution. In fact a lot of schools, private schools especially, had elocution lessons in the curriculum. I was one kid who was taught elocution ("Speech and Drama") which I was too good at; for years I was mocked at school for "talking posh". It took me years to learn how to sound "ocker" (like Russell Crowe). I've now moved back to my earlier "posh" style now I'm no longer working with "blokes". I had to sound like one of the boys, so I ockered up well. But we can always tell the difference between a British accent and an Aussie one. In fact, like "Pygmalion" by G B S Shaw, we can 'hear' the difference between the different British accents and often place a person's origins by their accent. I agree that a British accent is one of the easiest to understand - and yet when Dr Catherine Hamlin was on Oprah (talking about the Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia), her beatifully clear British accent was SUBTITLED! I've watched Oprah at times and had difficulty understanding the occasionally really strong country US accent. I also find accents fascinating. easy child 2/difficult child 2's acting aims led her to buy a popular book for serious Aussie actors called "Speaking American". It's an interesting book; it comes with a CD of vocal exercises but is aimed at teaching Australians how to speak with the US accent most preferred by casting agents in the US. Seriously - this will be the book used by the likes of Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe, Simon Baker etc. But it gives fascinating history into the development of the US accent in various regions. It's interesting - the US accent in a lot of places, and the Aussie accent in a lot of places both originated with a lot of Irish influence, but because the timing was subtly different and because of the other influences, it has gone in different directions. I think the film name in the US was "Cry in the Dark". I'm trying to look it up on IMDB but they've changed their website so it's really clunky at the moment. Marg [/QUOTE]
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