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Originally Posted by Hayden
Whenever they try to imitate our way of speaking, they try to force it. But people don't seem to get that the Australian accent is quite relaxed (I think it's actually proven that we use less muscles when we speak that Americans do).
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That doesn't surprise me! "Australian" is a pretty lazy way of speaking... you don't really move your jaw much, and letters are often just treated as vague suggestions for pronunciation (e.g. saying "Straya" instead of "Australia"). I don't think you can do it right unless it's half-arsed.
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Originally Posted by Hayden
I do know that no-one can speak like an Australian unless they're actually Australian. The best interpretations I've heard have come from the comedians Arj Barker and Danny Bhoy, but even theirs' aren't brilliant or spot-on.
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The best non-Aussie Aussie accent I've heard is Michael Caine's at the end of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Very impressive.