>>My late business partner was Australian and it took a while to get my ear tuned to his accent (and I used to be able to mimic a great British accent...too many years of watching Monty Python while chemically imbalanced). Plus the phraseology...the "telephone" was the "dog-and-bone", to drive is to "hit the frog-and-toad", and so on.
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>>After a while, I stopped noticing the difference, until one day I was in a Home Depot and overhead an Australian talking to a clerk there. The clerk couldn't understand him at all, but to me it was clear as a bell. For a weird moment I felt like butting in with "Pardon me, but I speak Australian" but thought the Aussie might take it wrong...
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>Daniel,
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>Yeah, I just get the biggest kick out of stuff like that.
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>Of course, the mere mention of Monty Python guarantees a whole new subplot to this thread. *g*
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>"Roight!!"
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>"Your lupens or your life!"
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>*g*
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>Best,
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>DD

Doug,

"Bring me a shruberry!"