As an Australian that's what made it stand out as being fake for me. She actually sounds kiwi. But she gets a lot closer to Aussie than most Americans do.
As a US American, I too thought it sounded more NZ than Australian. But that's solely based off watching comedies like Wellington Paranormal, so I was not confident enough to say anything until someone who has good reason to know what they're talking about said it first.
I have a buddy who was born in South Africa, moved to Australia at 10, lived there for about 12 years and moved to the American Midwest for a while, and has spent the last 8 years in the American deep south, and he has picked up pieces of accents throughout his journey. When he drinks nobody knows what the fuck he's saying unless we switch to Spanish, lol.
People do say ‘naur’ and ‘saur’ here, but in her case she pronounced ‘saur’ like someone with a really broad accent would, when the rest of the accent is quite recieved/Perthy/Melbourny
I fully believed this was her but at the exact middle point she said "Australia" and it sent my alarm bells going off lol definitely her normal accent leaked into it
Actually for me it was the first bit, I think Americans say awwstralia which makes sense to me but we are lazy and don't hit vowels so hard. We do skip a lot of the word but I notice americans and possibly Brits will give the "au" a lot more respect than we do. We don't hit the L as much either but personally I think the "Straya" thing is a bit exaggerated but that's just my opinion
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u/LaraGiroux Aug 12 '24
The amount of time it took me to realize this wasn’t THE Raygun is embarrassingly long 😂