>A songwriter/performer friend of mine went to America to try his luck at
>the 'big time'. He said he spent most of his time saying "G'day" for people
>who were all highly entertained by his accent ... He'd be doing his pitch
>to some record company exec and the guy would ignore what he was saying and
>call out to people nearby, "Hey, come and listen to this Aussie say
>'G'day'." I suggested he wrote a "g'day" song for Americans ...
Ugh - cartoon Australiana, which I suppose is easier to digest than the
real thing... My poor son had to keep saying at at his English school,
and it was highly complained of that he didn't sound Australian enough,
not bending his vowels like Crocodile Dundee. The only entertaining
version of that I've ever come across was courtesy of Terry Pratchett,
who wrote a surreal Douglas Adams kind of satire on such kitsch in _The
Last Continent_.
Best
Alison
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