I'm almost 60 and just learning about all the English speaking cousins I have around the planet. Guess I've just been too darn busy to notice until lately.

Oh yes....I've hunted and fished in Canada.....bunch of nice fellas up there (eh) unless ya wander into Quebec......... but not all of my cousins are on my visitation list either....

Last year I was most fortunate to take a couple rifles to RSA and have a ball with some of my (almost) English speasking cousins.....a greater bunch of guys (blokes I take it in aussie language?) I never met.

We had a damn good time....or is that bloody good time....well anyway it was fun.

I got a couple more off shore hunting trips in my future and was wondering what advice you folks (blokes) "down under" might have to offer a "cousin" "up over"?

Vapodog,
You'll enjoy hunting here if you like shooting and don't mind killing.That is the volume of feral or non native species means few have what you guys know as seasonal or bag limit restrictions. Camels, horses, feral cattle, pigs, goats, wild dogs to name a few. Varying quantities- a lot of hunts for visitors are of course
guided and some fees and limits may apply. Of course there are several deer species as well and buffalo and Banteng.

I'd say to use the King's English as it extends to Australians you will not have a damn or bloody good time here but a Fuckin good time.

Vapodog, if you're coming over here, the best advice I can give is to not try too much to sound like an Aussie - I work with a lot of your countrymen, and a lot of them 'try' to fit in by using local vernacular and accents... just let it come naturally - you'll be respected more for it.



Aussie is pronounced as in Ozzy, not Ossy. Also don't get too sucked in by the 'mate' or 'bloke' thing... coming from one of our own, it's OK, but from a 'yank' (you're ALL Yank's to us) it sounds as though you're brown nosin'. Besides, some of us can actually remember the names of our 'mates'.



And for God's sake, unless you really know your audience, don't get too precious about God, the Good Ol' USofA, GWB, or Patriotism... many of us may feel the same, but we express it differently...



Just my observations of seeing lots of Yanks crash and burn...



When are you thinkin' of comin' over?

Rugeruser:

As one that is from the southern US, we have our own vernaular - many nothernerns (yankees) make fun of our speech, even when their in the south.

Just out us curiousity, have y'all experienced anyone from the southern Us using "y'all" or other southern speech? Such as "yonder" as in "over yonder," or in the southern mountains, you might hear of people talking about "coves" and "hollers"

For all I know, use of those type words are common to Austrialia and NZ. Acctually, on some of the more isolated coastal islands and the mountain villages of the south, some of the speech is reminiscent of Elizabethean english, at least according to university academics.

Chuck - from North Carolina

Chuck,

The first phone call I made to America was around 1972 and was to Roy Weatherby and a pair of 460s were ordered and to be delivered through their Australian agent at the time, Michaelis Bayley.

We both had some difficulty understanding each other.

As the years have passed by I have noticed that the differences in accents have become less and less and I put this down to the TV. When you see Australian newsreels from the 50s and 60s and also our early films and TV shows you can see how the Australian accent has changed.

I am 56 and notice that from the age group just under me, say mid 40s and down use a lot of lot of Americanisms such as

guys or

Hi Mike or

Hi guys

I have never heard any Australians saying "y'all"

Mike

I notice that I still have real trouble with some accents. I have been ringing some companies in Texas about ordering a few things and it was just too hard ,which is why I wanted email addresses instead. With email ,if I type slow enough and push the buttons fairly hard ,they can understand me as well.
Speaking of which ,does anyone have the postal address for J-Tex in Gladewater TX. I just couldnt get the adress over the phone, either Texas drawl or one too many christmas drinks on either of our parts.

cr500,
Here ya go:

J- Tex Technology
410 W. Upshur Ave. #F
Gladewater, Texas 75647
903-845-1330

I hope this is the outfit your looking for.

Hog Killer

Thanks for this Hog killer. It was slightly different to what I had. You must have typed slowly coz I could understand exactly what you wote.

you guys do know why Aussies are like computers , don't you ? Cos you have to punch the information into both of them.....

I saw a documentary on this subject a few years ago I think it was called "History of the English Language" by BBC and go's into detail why there is different accents in US and other parts of the world, worth a watch.

Steve

The Australian accent is NOTHING like the American accent!!!

Even with the indoctrination of the Yanks finally getting their TV commercials in here. Nothing turns me off a commercial quicker than a foreign accent selling some foreign product.

Of course who knows what is happening to the "Sydney" accent???!