This is what crazy sounds like

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Originally Posted by manker

Texans are a special case but I'd just think a Canadian was from somewhere that isn't Texas or Louisiana or Kentucky or all those other places that drawl.

The Aussie/Kiwi thing is funny, I know a few Aussie girls who insist that their accent is distinct from Kiwis, but I honestly can't discern it at all.

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You can tell regional dialects from the UK quite easily can you not, the difference between a liverpudlian and a londoner are obvious ? Or a Welsh and a Scottish accent ?

To me the difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi is as obvious, the Australians have a more nasal quality to the pronounciation and flatter vowels, I mentioned the word six before, it sounds like sex when pronounced by an Australian which gives us a slight giggle, I'm still waiting for an Aussie to turn up and jump up and down though.....
Where is ILOVENZB when you need him?

Oh yeah, I know it's a perception thing.
I'm just a gigantic xenophobe.

I do think, though, that the difference between the examples you gave and the difference between a kiwi and an aussie dialect - and indeed the canadia/america accent - is much more pronounced and would be discernible by pretty much everyone.

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Originally Posted by manker

Oh yeah, I know it's a perception thing.
I'm just a gigantic xenophobe.

I do think, though, that the difference between the examples you gave and the difference between a kiwi and an aussie dialect - and indeed the canadia/america accent - is much more pronounced and would be discernible by pretty much everyone.

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It is obvious that the examples I gave are much more pronounced, but then you have had a few thousand years to differentiate, New Zealand has only been a nation since 1840.

I never thought of it like that but that could be because French and Germans don't have the same extent of regional diversity in dialect we do - and their history is comparable.