The difference between Australia and New Zealand

[KathyPartdeux]

@jyoti

Also, what’s a “Kiki”?

“from “A DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND HISTORICAL TERMS”

3. KIKI: 1940s slang for a lesbian comfortable with either a passive or aggressive partner.”

Or

Elton John, Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (with Kiki Dee)

[Wanderfound]

@Kimmo

It’s weird - most of the time when a foreigner does an Aussie accent, they fuck up half the vowels like that, like in Point Break, in which someone apparently thought nobody would know they used South Efricans.

There’s quite a range of accents here, from ABC News presenter to full yobbo ocker, but nobody here speaks like thet.

There’s a weird linguistic three-way between Oz, NZ and South Africa. Irish-English, Scots-English, Dutch-English, all with a twist of Colonial warpage.

[jyoti]

@Brainspore @GulliverFoyle @Melz2 @KathyPartdeux Thank you all for the explanations: today I learned a lot.

Also, Mark fixed the typo which turned Kiwi into Kiki.

[Kimmo]

I can do a convincing SA accent (according to a South African), but I can’t even begin to try a Kiwi one.

I think maybe the differences are too subtle?

[tachin1]

@Brainspore

Also, what’s a “Kiki”?

It’s a kind of witchcraft-based courier service.