In Reply to: Thats funny! posted by marco29 on Thursday, 14. April 2005 at 05:24 Bali Time:
Guess every country has it's stereotypes about how they're perceived.
When I was in the US a few years back I had to modify the way I spoke a bit cuz the yanks couldn't understand most of what I was saying. So I had to stop shortening words (typical lazy aussie way of speaking) and make sure I spoke a bit more properly.
Only real problem with that was that they kept asking me what part of England I was from. Loved the reactions when my answer was a straight-faced "Sydney". Stunned silence for a second, followed by "Ohhhh, you're arse-stralian? But you don't sound like the croc hunter??"