Brosnan was born in Ireland, but after moving away as a child he completely lost any Irish accent he had.
There’s another Irish actor in that clip but he’s from Northern Ireland trying to do a West Mayo accent and failing.
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Was there a distinct Australian accent in Ned Melly’s time? I truly don’t know.
The USA “southern” accent didnt develop until after the civil war, so all those movies get the accent completely wrong. Savanah Georgia has a distinct accent to this day.
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Was Ned Kelly’s accent the same as a modern Australian accent? Certainly not. But there are records of people noting a distinct Australian accent in the 1820s, although it would have been knocked around a bit by the Gold Rush.
But if you go and listen to recordings of the Australian accent around the 1910s and 1920s, you can hear a lot of the foundational sounds of the Australian accent as we know it, and there’s good reason to believe that those features were in the spoken language a generation before, when Ned was executed in 1880. It’s thought he may have had more of an Irish tinge to his accent, given that the North East High Country had a high Irish immigrant population, but Ned’s parents were married in a church in the center of Melbourne, and he lived his whole life in this part of the world.
Here: General Australian from 1915:
and Prime Minister Joe Lyons from 1932:
It’s disturbingly difficult to find a recording of broad Australian from before the 1960s (when television technology started allowing for voxpops of the man on the street).
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I wondered why they did that and the only thing I could think of is Jagger’s Australian accent is even worse than his Irish?
And that is one of the worst ever.
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Well Chrome is the actual worst browser in the world. It still is barely functional as a browser but its main job is to clutter your life with ads and to sell your data everywhere. It is slow and very memory and bandwidth intensive. I recently moved to an iPhone so I don’t have any choice any more (even if it’s not Safari, it IS Safari just with different branding) but when I used android I never used Chrome. I used Brave and Firefox with Privacy Badger and other ad blockers. IIRC Boing Boing is unusable without lots of blockers.
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BB works nicely in Firefox on my mobile, though I do also run DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection which blocks a lot of shit.
On desktop I use Brave for viewing BB, critically with javascript disabled just for the main site.
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Just, FYI, we do have a thread for such issues…
I’m sure someone can suggest ad-blockers, etc if you asked there…
And ATL doesn’t have much of an accent, because we have so many people from elsewhere living here…
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The road man wasn’t bad. Also I liked the hello how are you guy.
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You should see him on Avenue 5. His character is American pretending to be British. But it’s not his natural accent, it sounds a lot like his Blackadder character.
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if not,
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Pierce Brosnan and Alison Doody are both Irish, so that’s just shite o’ the pair of 'em.
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