I promise that the Micro Monday podcast is coming back. But in the meantime, you can get your fix of Micro Mac nerds on this podcast with @canion, @burk, and @martinfeld.
@canion I did! I was also distracted by the fact that you and @martinfeld have such different accents! I have so little experience with Australian accents.
@macgenie My accent is stuffed and not a good example of an Australian one. Being brought up in a household with American siblings but in Australia messed me up. Having said that, there are differences in accents between States.
It's interesting to hear your view on the accents, @macgenie! I'm not sure if you agree with this, @canion, but I've always had the feeling that we Australians pay a lot less attention to regional differences in our own country. I certainly find it easier to tell different British and American accents apart than our own—it seems more subtle here, generally. Occasionally I'll hear people tease South Australians for saying words like ‘dance' and 'France' pretentiously or that Victorians say 'Malbourne' rather than 'Melbourne', but that's mostly it…
@canion Haha 'my accent is stuffed’... hilarious but you're being a bit harsh on yourself there. I don’t think that it sounds odd. If anything, I'm the odd one. I used to teach drama locally while I was at uni and one time I had a class that was full of completely new students who didn't already know who I was at the school. While I was away (after only one or two lessons), a substitute said, 'Who normally teaches this class?’, to which the kids responded, 'We've forgotten his name but he's from overseas’. When I returned and I questioned them about it, they refused to believe that I was born and raised in Wollongong. 'From somewhere in Europe!', they asserted…
@martinfeld @macgenie Queenslanders have the most “rural” accent whereas you are right about South Australians who all sound like they’d prefer to be eating jam and scones back in the motherland.
@macgenie @canion @martinfeld half of our podcast is me attempting to not get distracted just listening! 😀
@canion By the way, @NTKF impersonates me constantly, not unlike the parody accent for Joh Bjelke Petersen from Fast Forward, if you recall that.