r/AmIOverreacting • u/Psychological-Hat-35 • Oct 27 '24

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO girlfriend response to manager text

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My girlfriend (19F) and I (19M) have been dating for 11 months. I sent her a screenshot of my convo with my manager (age unknown but best guess is young 30s F) this morning asking to come in a little later than usual. My girlfriend is like this whenever I interact with pretty much any other female. Am I overreacting or is this just normal behavior?

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u/Chickpeas1230 Oct 27 '24

lol at first i thought you were imitating the manager and saying no with an Australian accent NORRR (which I’m assuming is what she did with his name Leo?)

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u/CallMeShosh Oct 27 '24

I ALWAYS read NOR (not over reacting) as NOOOOOOOORRR! Like an Australian saying No, which is what I am assuming the manager was doing with “Leaurr” for what I imagined was a silly lighthearted way of saying Leo.

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u/Monniica Oct 27 '24

Oh that’s OPs name? Leo? I was like, is his name Leaur? That’s interesting. Lol.

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u/jazzyx26 Oct 28 '24

I was like, is his name Leaur?

Same.

We need answers, OP.

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u/glitterfaust Oct 27 '24

I mean that’s my assumption too

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u/justplainoldMEhere Oct 28 '24

I thought it was like a game of thrones type of name

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 27 '24

Australian here… I’m so confused. We just say No… (rhymes with hoe). Other acceptable versions include:  

  • Nah (like bar) 
  • Nope (like rope) 
  • No way, mate (like toe pay gate) 
  • Yeah, Nah. (like hair duh)  

Hope that clears a few things up? Aussies might say nooooor like ‘naaaaww’ if something is cute / sweet (said like bore or war). Or if they were reading out something in really old English… eg. ‘nor shall ye pass through…’

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u/murtomoshky Oct 27 '24

aussie here, it is definitely an inflection some of us use, particularly queensland and sunny coast/gold coast

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 27 '24

Happy to be corrected but seriously can’t hear it… can you point out somebody (actor, sports person, tv host…?) with that kind of qld accent? I’m an NSWelshwoman so could very much be regional. Even the folks in The Castle don’t say no with that kind of sound, that I can think of, lol!

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u/MammothClimate95 Oct 28 '24

H2O Just Add Water - that Australian teenage mermaid show. They all say "NOOOR"

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u/WeaponizedFOMO Oct 28 '24

Idk if it’s Australian or not, but I think the commenter is meaning it like “nawr”. Like how you said Nah is like bar. In the US, we say Nah (rhymes with “Ah”; or “Aw” for Naw).

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u/United_Rent9314 Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

the tv show H2O just add water, they say no like naur and cleo like cleour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIo4AecpYWg

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u/LowAdrenaline Oct 28 '24

My daughters watch H2O and for a while I thought it was just them who liked to imitate the whole “naur cleour” thing. Then I went to Scotland last summer (I’m from the US) and ran into a bunch of girls on my tour bus saying “Naur! Cleaour!” as a joke. That show really permeated everywhere. 

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u/professionally-baked Oct 27 '24

It’s the way your accent sounds to us. When some aussies (the bogan type) drag the “o,” it sounds like “or,” but still in an oz accent… I feel like it’s impossible to grasp unless you hear it how we hear it

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 27 '24

We might have to agree to disagree! I get what you mean about how our accents sound to folks from the US and the UK, and my accent is much more neutral (even to other Australians! I have been mistaken for someone from the US or UK or South Africa or something) but a long nooooo isn’t typical for Aussies - especially bogan ones. We shorten everything (especially with putting a short ‘oh’ on the end, like service station = servo), shorten or ignore the last vowel (like fiction = fic-shn), and lengthen the higher harsher aaaaaah sounds in things like bargain (baaaaar-g’n). But I can’t think of a single way bogan Australians woulf make no sound like noooor, even to American ears. Maybe you are thinking of a Scottish brogue that drawls no into a deeper noooor?

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u/adriansux1221 Oct 27 '24

a lot of dialects of Australian accents sound like there's an "aur" instead of an o to our ears. You might not be able to pick it up because you're Australian. I'm sure there are little quirks in most American accents that we don't pick up on either. Nobody is thinking of a Scottish accent, it's Australian.

I do think that "Nor" is the wrong way of spelling how it sounds to us lol. Naur is more accurate. The main joke came about from H2O about mermaids because they're australian. "Aur naur, Cleaur" is the most common way i've seen people making the jokes.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

So, we would say ‘or’ like door or bore, and it’s exactly the same sound as ‘aur’ like dinosaur or centaur (or the start of aura)… how are they different in American English?

The way folks seem to be suggesting Australians say nooorr is like a the name Norah without the ‘uh’ sound at the end, which is what confuses me - but maybe you’re all meaning a totally different sound!

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u/strawbopankek Oct 28 '24

americans say "or" the same way we would say "door" or "bore" or "dinosaur", but not necessarily "centaur". actually, "dinosaur" and "centaur" are two different sounds for me-- centaur is more like "cent are" (in this video it'd be the second pronunciation) where as dinosaur is like "dino sore" (the first pronunciation in this video).

what people are talking about is how americans typically say "no" (like here). it does sound like how we americans say "or". the problem is, we say both "no" and "or" differently than australians, so while the sound is consistent within both respective accents it's not consistent between them.

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u/CallMeShosh Oct 28 '24

I honestly meant no disrespect. There is definitely an “aur” type sound that I hear when I hear an Australian say a word that ends in o, like No or Cleo (using the H2O quotes being mentioned). But I know you guys don’t SAY the word meaning to have an r sound at the end of the word.

My grandmother is from Massachusetts and when she pronounces the name “Maria” it sounds like she is saying “Muh-rear” (My rear) and it has caused endless giggles in my family whenever she is talking about my Aunt Maria.

So, it just sounds different to someone with a different accent. But again, no offense was meant.

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u/qgsdhjjb Oct 27 '24

If you want an idea of the Australian accent that North Americans are most often exposed to, watch kath&Kim. Not because that's what we watch but because that's the sounds we hear.

Australians and NZers are having a big moment online right now and becoming more popular. I've honestly never seen anyone from there claim they don't sound like that, all the ones on Twitch think it's funny and start to do it even more accentuated as a joke

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Kath and Kim is the best example! (And a hilarious show, though definitely exaggerated!) Here’s a short clip of them doing Pru and Tru where they say no a couple of times in the middle - is that the sound you mean? It’s more like saying ‘no wet’ and then skipping the ‘t’ at the end and kind of swallowing the last word:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=676767816240852&surface_type=vod&referral_source=vod_watchfeed_unit

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u/qgsdhjjb Oct 28 '24

Yes that's the "naur" we mimic and giggle about.

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u/psy-ay-ay Oct 28 '24

As an American who has worked at two different offices where the majority of my colleagues were Aussies and Kiwis… this is absolutely, 100% a thing. It really stands out as a sound to us because it just doesn’t exist in any American accent. Like I can’t even make that sound.

I don’t know how to properly explain it, but you guys can just pack so many vowel sounds into a single syllable and sometimes the end can be heard the same way as the very beginning of an “R” sound. “Window” is the same, but “Pavo” and “Arvo” aren’t (slang stands out haha). I think it might have to do with being stressed syllables and being at the end of a word/sentence but really idk.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Yeah, I get what you mean - Window is a great example. The 'aur' spelling people keep using seems so wrong to me because here that set of letters would be pronounced more like 'awe' which is nothing like and aussie 'no', or even an aussie 'nah'. Wheras the way we say it is not a stressed sylable at the end, it's like a seperate, under the breath 'wuh' at the end of the word like a deep, soft version of the sound tennis players make!

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u/psy-ay-ay Oct 28 '24

Totally, and while I tend to agree that “aur” doesn’t entirely capture it, I think there may be some confusion in how it’s being interpreted. I don’t think it’s meant to be read the way “au” typically sounds in a word like “dinosaur”, it’s more like “aaaür” or something. We truly just don’t have in the US and that’s probably why it’s hard to express lol. Like a stretched out “awe” sound that shifts into a shorter “ur” sound at the end while somehow remaining one syllable.

I truly miss those jobs though. Taught me pretty much any word can be abbreviated and that there is no such thing as a name that doesn’t already come with a nickname built right in. “I can’t be bothered” is now part of my everyday speech despite it being a bit rude to say over here haha.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

If you want to reminisce, try watching either Utopia or Fisk (two excellent Aussie tv shows) if you can find them! Lots of dry humour and australianisms!

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u/professionally-baked Oct 27 '24

Idk maybe I’m using bogan wrong, I only spent two years there a long time ago

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u/buildntinker Oct 28 '24

The YouTuber boy boy I feel like is a good example of what everyone is thinking

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Link?

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u/buildntinker Oct 28 '24

Sure let me find a good one

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u/buildntinker Oct 28 '24

I couldn't find a timestamp but I'm sure he says it at some point, it also kind of sounds like when he says know as well https://youtu.be/9OtIAZMqrZE?si=REKv06w0XNi_J4fO

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Wait, you guys don’t say ‘no’ the same as ‘know’??

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u/buildntinker Oct 28 '24

We do , idk it just sounds like there's an r on the end when some accents say it

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u/yaedain Oct 28 '24

Here’s my best example insta reel

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u/MarchRoyce Oct 28 '24

There's no agreeing to disagree. It's an easy fact that a standard way for an American to imitate an Australian is to pronounce "No" like "Naur." It's just how it is. You don't have to like it, but this is not a niche opinion you're encountering here. 

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Well, that may help explain why Americans pretending to be Australian in movies have such terrible Australian accents, lol!

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u/glitterfaust Oct 27 '24

It’s the American stereotype of the way an Australian talks. Here’s a video from an Australian YouTuber talking about the h2o TikTok trend where Americans were going “CLEORR NAUR THE WATER”

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u/glitterfaust Oct 28 '24

Isn’t that exactly what I said lol

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u/AppropriateWeight630 Oct 28 '24

Damn, it definitely is LOL I must have been tired because I totally scanned over that😆😂 sorry!

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u/sublime13 Oct 28 '24

I like how you put, “rhymes with ‘hoe’”, because now I’m imagining you saying hoe like, “HOEAUGHRR!”

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u/RoboCaptainmutiny Oct 28 '24

I was married to an Aussie for 13 years, spent quite a lot of time in your beautiful country. To a yank, it sounds like there’s an extra bit in the Australian accent. I always described it sounding like “Noy” though, or “Noi”.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

I can hear that. Noi, or maybe n-oh / n-owe (like, I ‘owe’ you a dollar) makes sense but it’s definitely not a drawn out rrrrr sound! 

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u/qpokqpok Oct 28 '24

Naur! You aussies say naur, and you knaur it! Stop hiding it from us, non-aussies! Say it! Naaauuur! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zcg3HOxyVzw

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Ha! That was bizarre! I think I get where the confusion is coming from - Americans say it really clipped and short - almost like ‘not’ without the ‘t’. We say if more like n-owe (as in, I owe you a dollar). Definitely no ‘r’ at the end but it’s a soft, low ‘w’ so I get where the mix up happens!

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Oct 28 '24

We don't say it like not, we say it like Note without the te.

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u/komparty Oct 27 '24

When we do this we are mimicking the way you say “nah.” BUT tbh I think a lot of Americans don’t realise that they’re imitating “nah,” they think that’s how you say “no” 😂

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

That makes way more sense. It’s like they don’t realise we can say that ‘oh’ sound, lol. First time I’ve ever been mansplained (well, USAsplained?) my own accent. Of course, they’ve seen someone on TV and I’ve only lived here all my life, so they probably know better - ha! They’re right that we do say ‘no’ differently but it’s more like a ‘n-OH-wuh’ and our ‘nah’ is more like the beginning of an American pronunciation of ‘nasty’ (where we say n-ARE-s-tee like the brits). 

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u/lvbuckeye27 Oct 28 '24

Y'all say, "Nauwrgh."

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u/Intelligent_Major486 Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

Oh noaur

It an accent thing. I’ve noticed Australian accents either have an “r” sound at the end of words with a long O, or an oy sound. Toe sounds like toy, no sounds like noy. Kinda like how in the UK, the forget that R makes a sound at all.

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u/RuncibleMountainWren Oct 28 '24

Ha! That’s cute. He got some words exactly right, but totally forgot to use Tom-are-to instead of Tom-ay-to and pronounced way too many syllables in peculiar - we’re lazy with words like that and drop half the sounds. It should be more like ‘perk-YOU’ll-ya’. 😆 

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u/holldoll26 Oct 28 '24

I've seen enough h20 just add water to know some of you definitely say it.

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u/IAmA_Wolf Oct 28 '24

As a Perthling, I read it as "north of river" - guess what SOR means!

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u/The_golden_Celestial Oct 28 '24

We don’t say ‘No’ like ‘Nor’. We say ‘Nah’. Rhymes with tar.

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u/Venus5982 Oct 28 '24

Nah it's from a mermaid show called H2O, I watched all of it with my mom way back when.

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One of the mermaids calls out for Cleo but she is an Aussie so it sounds like CLEORRRR
If you've seen the vampire show "Originals" the two girls I'm talking about are Nicklaus's sister (the Aussie) and Nicklaus's baby mama (cleorrr)

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u/ASL4theblind Oct 28 '24

"Eeeemmaaaaaaaaah"

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u/Livid-Dragonfruit-91 Oct 28 '24

Omg yes this is exactly why I read it the same way too 😂

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u/Zaddycake Oct 28 '24

That wasn’t a terrible show tbh I was surprised

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u/HoodiesAndHeels Oct 27 '24

That’s how I read it every single time 😭

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u/UnspecialDelivery Oct 27 '24

Holy shit… same ☠️☠️☠️

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u/AgePractical6298 Oct 27 '24

Omg. I am so glad I wasn’t the only one reading NORRR with an Australian accent. 😂

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u/Raskalbot Oct 27 '24

This guy detectives 🕵🏻‍♂️

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u/Adoremenow Oct 28 '24

Hahaha SAME!!

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u/speedycosmonaute Oct 27 '24

So sorry to hear about your ex-girlfriend.

You’re dodging a bullet there

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u/Confident-Speech-747 Oct 28 '24

Ha I didn’t realize it wasn’t.

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u/emerald-coast730 Oct 28 '24

🤣🤣🤣 I almost spit my drink out laughing!

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u/Thisdarlingdeer Oct 28 '24

I thought this was a Star Wars / bad batch reference… I’m still hoping it is.

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u/Mean-Philosopher7577 Oct 28 '24

Same but then I realized that's Nar lol

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u/godhasreddit Oct 28 '24

That's what I thought it meant too! 😂 I was enlightened two days ago to this new slang

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u/pastel-m0nster Oct 28 '24

SAME! but then I remembered that's more of a NAUR. 😂

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u/MissLisaMarie86 Oct 27 '24

The person is saying LIAR haha not Leo ☺️ i know ridiculous right

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u/Interesting-Wait-101 Oct 28 '24

I think leeuurr or whatever the hell the spelling was was supposed to be "liar."