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Having a "weird" accent in a place where you shouldn't really have it

I don't even really mean this in the sense that some accents may be harder to understand when speaking English, but in the sense that my accent has always been out of place. I'm an Asian-Australian in the sense that I was born to a 100% Filipino family who moved to Australia when I was very young from England, and obtained citizenship. I have lived a majority of my life here in Brisbane, and I would sooner call it home before Bacolod City or (god forbid) Birmingham. I have never, ever, ever had an Aussie accent. For as long as I've known, my accent has been the thickest "general American" accent ever. Only somewhat recently I learned I have the "International School Accent", which is a vaguely American sounding accent apparently picked up by students studying at international schools, something I never did. I think the leading theory is that while I maintain some Australian pronunciations ("Aussie", "Australia", "mum", etc.) due to being around Aussies my whole life, I mostly speak "American" due to the strong amount of American media I was watching when I was still learning English (and as a consequence forgetting Tagalog sadly). Kinda cool! To this day people will ask me "Are you a Yank?". I'm just happy to have such a common conversation starter.

@donultrawide

Jan 15, 2025

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AUSTRALIA seems like england & California Had a baby

american perspective: i think the coastal surfing vibes in some parts of the country remind me of cali, but the rural outback parts remind me more of the american south. the accent feels to me like someone took an English accent and "twang-ed" it, so that also reminds me of the american south. also my brain divides australian accents into the only reference points i have for them: the milder/subtler Mike's Mic/Troye Sivan accent, the "NAUUUR CLEO" H20: Just Add Water accent, & the really stereotypical, flattened vowels-sounding accent in nature documentaries that's like "HERE WE SEE THE WALLABY IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT." i wish i knew what the actual regional differences were with those accents/why they sound so different from each other, but the U.S. is divided into a bunch of regional accents too, so ig it's similar. also lots of ppl refer to Florida as the Australia of america, since FL has some crazy wildlife as well.

@gforce2001

Feb 8, 2024

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concerning lack of world knowledge

every single American I've told where I live (Switzerland), without fail, have asked me if I live in Sweden, or if I speak Swedish, or they just straight up don't think its a real country??

@salmune

May 1, 2024

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having a picture of your younger self on your mirror

kind of cheesy but it reminds me of who im being mean to

@danielalala

Nov 24, 2024

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Making cards for birthdays

I made this card for my best friend’s birthday and I’m very proud of it - I drew things that remind me of her like her cats and her fav movie as well as photos of some of my fav memories together - it took so long because there were so many tiny pieces of paper to cut out but I just put on a movie and in the background and had fun crafting which was actually very relaxing

@danielalala

Jan 12, 2025

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being on time

i am a stickler for being on time and by being on time i mean being 10 minutes early - i find it so disrespectful when people are consistently late because it just shows that they don’t respect my time and i don’t get the excuse that it’s just part of their personality bc if they really cared they would make an effort to change anyway this was brought on by the fact that i missed my very expensive train bc my friends were late

@danielalala

Feb 15, 2025

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