Aussie-American?!

[Aaron E. Drews]

on 25/5/00 6:42 PM, Peter A. McGraw wrote:


>
> Does anyone know of an actual dialect like this--or did this have to be an
> Aussie who moved here and has tried to change his speech with only about 50
> percent success?
>

The latter is probable.  From your descriptions, it sounds very much like an
interdialect.  Interdialects are seldom "complete" versions of native or
target dialects.

--Aaron


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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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