It would help if people were to learn sufficient patience to listen carefully
This video’s speaker needs some tuition on pitch and speed of delivery , leaving aside the fact that his Aussie accent is located in a kind of sub – tropical Essex.
The “easiest – on – the – ear” Antipodean accent on TV is that of Roger Maynard , probably deemed to posh for an Aussie channel nowadays but highly regarded by his present employer, Channel News Asia.
Also the speaker’s beard reminds me of the Edward Lear poem :
There was an Old Man with a beard ,
Who said , ” It is just as I feared ! –
Two Owls and a Hen , four Larks and a Wren,
Have all made their nests in my beard.”
Alastair, when you judge that Roger Maynard’s ‘accent’ could be ‘deemed to[o] posh for an Aussie channel nowadays’ you may be right — after all his speech variety is not ‘Antipodean’!
Yes, we now have to, “tip toe through the two lips.”
It would help if people were to learn sufficient patience to listen carefully
This video’s speaker needs some tuition on pitch and speed of delivery , leaving aside the fact that his Aussie accent is located in a kind of sub – tropical Essex.
The “easiest – on – the – ear” Antipodean accent on TV is that of Roger Maynard , probably deemed to posh for an Aussie channel nowadays but highly regarded by his present employer, Channel News Asia.
Also the speaker’s beard reminds me of the Edward Lear poem :
There was an Old Man with a beard ,
Who said , ” It is just as I feared ! –
Two Owls and a Hen , four Larks and a Wren,
Have all made their nests in my beard.”
But then I am a deeply shallow person.
Alastair, when you judge that Roger Maynard’s ‘accent’ could be ‘deemed to[o] posh for an Aussie channel nowadays’ you may be right — after all his speech variety is not ‘Antipodean’!