It's not at all the Paul Hogan caricature of an Aussie accent that we think of back in North America. It's much more organic than that - he's lost his terminal "r"s completely, and "r"s in the middle of words are just hinted at. Meanwhile his vowels have stretched into weird Antipodean dipthongs.
I imagine it will all fade when we leave Oz. But meanwhile I've noticed how this little accent makes Elias seem like a slightly different person. And I've also gotten an insight into how odd it must be to have a child with a completely different accent from your own...
Even some Turks have an Aussie accent. I was wearing my Australian baseball cap with the kangaroo on front when we were walking in Istanbul a couple of weeks ago. And a guy on the street looked at me and said in a friendly, loud voice, "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!!"
ReplyDeletesigh - it's what we're known for.
DeleteHope you've captured it on video to show him when he's a teenager! XOXO
ReplyDeleteno, we haven't actually - really good idea.
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