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Australian university: Aussie accent is result of generations of heavy drinking
- Bud 11y ago(Title borrowed from SFgate's version of this article, because the title of this version was far too long to fit in Hacker News' allowed space for titles.)
- oska 11y agoThere's a reason this guy (and story) showed up three times on /r/badlinguistics in the last two days [1], [2], [3]. Because what he's saying is rubbish. The discussion at [3] links to the refutation [4]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qh1jj/gday_mate_lazy_australian_accent_caused_by/ https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qh1jj/gday... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qmt1l/australia_we_need_to_talk_about_the_way_we_speak/ https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qmt1l/aust... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qo63v/linguists_respond_to_frenkels_claims_about/ https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qo63v/ling... [4] http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2015/10/29/when-media-gets-drunk-on-absurdity-and-tries-to-tell-us-we%E2%80%99re-the-ones-who-sound-drunk/?wpmp_switcher=mobile http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2015/10/29/when-media-ge...