Sometimes I try to play up the Australian accent/stereotype to foreigners for a bit of a laugh, only to then get in to a conversation with other Australians and realise I was actually playing it down.
I’m fine until some of the slang gets in there. I know some, but there’s definitely more I don’t and hearing it on Aussie YouTube channels sometimes has me running to google if the context alone doesn’t cut it.
Unrelated, but what would be the best community to ask about tourist stuff? Wife and I would like to visit but I’d like to do some reading and maybe get some opinions if I see anything not already answered. Cheers!
Go to western Australia, go to the beaches, be disappointed by every other beach you ever go to in your entire life.
Hah, we were actually thinking Queensland for the dinosaur museums and fossils. I love the water, but wife isn’t such a big fan.
Sometimes I wonder if people online think I’m playing it up (I’m from a rural area and talk like that normally)
I was chatting with a yank fella I know on Discord and called him mate, I’ve known him for about a year. There was a pause and he said, “That’s the first time you’ve ever called me mate”. Bloke was just about tearing up cos apparently I’d just fulfilled one of his life ambitions, being called mate by an Aussie. Ordinarily I use mate just about every other sentence but it made me realise I must subconsciously tone it down for foreigners.
Go all in at all times. We’re not here to fuck spiders.
I try to talk less Australian to an international audience because I’m self conscious of looking like I’m hamming it up.
