This is the best summary I could come up with:
Across Australia, linguists are revolutionising the understanding of how Aussies’ voices differ from one another, fuelling new insights into what was once thought to be a monolithic accent.
In a 2023 research paper, Debbie Loakes and other linguists at the University of Melbourne found the Victorian habit of pronouncing “el” and “al” the same way (eg “celery” becomes “salary”) was dying out among young people in the state’s north, but persisting in the south.
Dr Loakes says linguists used to think younger Australians were trending away from the broad and cultivated accents toward a more general voice, but that recent work suggests the changes are more complicated.
ABC listeners may be familiar with the archetypal cadence and tone of Australia’s national broadcaster, which certainly falls into the cultivated accent camp.
However, listening to archival recordings makes it clear that the “ABC accent” is far milder today than it was just a few decades ago, and many presenters actively reject it.
Despite recognising that people perceive varieties of Australian English differently, linguists have shied away from classifying them as separate accents.
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How you says words ain’t important.
What matters if you says parma and potato cake or if you’re wrong.
Parma or parmi is irrelevant because it’s a trash food for people with no taste.
Potato cake sounds more like an alternative name for potato bake than it does for potato scallop.
Ain’t nothing wrong with comfort food.
Not everything needs to be a bougie deconstructed h2o dish.
The problem isn’t that it’s low class (most of the best food is, IMO). The problem is that it tastes terrible.
I’ve never been at a restaurant with someone who ordered the parmi and not heard them complain that it’s “too dry”. No, that’s just what parmi is like. It has to be smothered in sauce to even be edible.
Not if you call it “Lightly Panko crumbed oven baked Delatite Chicken Breast with smoked ham, Napoli sauce & Mozzerella cheese with your choice of two sides.”
Sorry for the quality of the photo, it was taken in a “lightly fried beer and flour battered, thinly sliced potato”
Potato Scallop refers to either a Potato Scallopine or Hassalback Potatoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaloppine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasselback_potatoes
It has nothing to with a deep-fried, battered slice of root vegetable, sprinkled with offensive amounts of chicken salt.
or if you’re wrong
Imagine having this level of self confidence. It’s a potato scallop ya nonce eejit
@Marsupial @jagungal That escalated quickly 😳
@Marsupial @jagungal now I’m curious if this is a misunderstanding about the regional differences of the word “nonce”.
‘Franky’
It’s pronounced ’Franky’.
Isn’t it?
