Sniffles, toilet bowls by the side of the road, accents & Australianisms

[koalathebear]

"If you build it, he will come" (Field of Dreams)
"If there is a flu, Koala will catch it". (The Doom of KoalaNo please don't tell me about flu shots! It is my Doom - I must catch every single flu that flies past. Also I am so not appropriate for the Codral "soldier on with Codral" ad given that when I'm sick, I must take to my bed and make sad

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Hope you feel better soon

[forg]

*giggle* I was reading about the Australian accent while watching Dr Who (the Peter Davidson era) - and Tegan (the Aussie flight attendant) was in it and running around with her aussie accent.

I have a dilemma when I get sick whether to stay home - for it is a pain to hire a casual to cover my class or other teachers have to cover my load but if I go in then I don't get better quicker and might get worse and also pass the germs onto others.

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[koalathebear]

*grin* Does Tegan have a 'real' Aussie accent or is it one of those really bad faux ones that sounds more cockney than Aussie? Have you ever watched the tv series 'Lost'? The plotline involves a flight from Sydney Australia to the US which crashes on a Mysterious X-Files Like Island Somewhere and most of the Aussie extras used for the Australia scenes (even when they're real Aussies) sound like they're refugees off the set of Crococile Dundee

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[forg]

She has one of those cringe worthy ones! Especially since it is next to all these BBC accents and then her so not cultured one - how did she become an air hostess with an accent like that?

I don't think I can assess mine too critically as it is a bit of this and a bit of that.

Hope you are better and good on you for not sharing your germs with others! I am trying to keep healthy this term and take my vitamins so I don't have to soldier on. Just got to keep away from those kids.

[petitevanou]

Having the strange mind I do, I tried to think of scenarios.
lol, I visualised it and you had me laughing for a while :D

[koalathebear]

Accents

I'm with you. I love accents. I actually do like the Irish and Scottish accents but I am a walking cliché..... I like some US accents but not the really manic one that you see on television :) Does this mean you still have a French accent? I'm seeing that we're going to all do an 'accent meme' one of these days! Something like ..... 'read aloud a short piece that you like / you wrote in your own accent'. Hee hee.

The Australian accent drives a lot of people insane because we almost always have a rising inflection at the end of the sentence as if we're asking a question. It's something I work very hard to remove from my voice but I know that I do it from time to time if I'm lazy.

Walkabout, I heard that before, it was a movie title, a very good movie!Oddly enough the word is oddly appropriate for you. Sometimes when someone vanishes to do his/her own thing you say he or she's gone walkabout. It can also mean just hopping off to have a bit of time and space for yourself - getting away from work, the rat race and all

[petitevanou]

I don't have a French accent, I sound pretty much English, with a neutral accent, just like my other half, but I do make pronunciation mistakes especially when I am tired or angry, so that's a give away that I am not English, but people can't tell I am French :D

[kiaforrest]

wow!

The South is the only place I know where you can open your mouth, say HI and every head for 3 miles turns to look at you with pitying glances they usually reserve for those with like half a leg & and puss oozing from every pore. They feel sorry about your point of origin, but not sorry enough to Not say, "You aren't from around here, are you honey?" Like they can't wait for you to GO BACK and leave them without the disturbing sound of HI with a midwestern clip.

I had NO idea this was a universal difficulty. I feel SO much better. Really. LOL

[kiaforrest]

Oooh, and I meant to say GET WELL!!!!! but daughter #4 told a horrible joke, I laughed and hit the button Too Soon.... so here's a Second GET WELL whammy

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