11. Is there identity in Australian English?

Part of a course on English sociolinguistics: http://isg.urv.es/sociolinguistics/varieties/.
This replaces a previous version, omitting a few of the more disrespectful comments. The previous one nevertheless had more than 2000 views - which could be enough to be embarrassing.

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• English
• sociolinguistics
• Australian

[AnthionyPym]

My 30 minutes in a Sydney train in July revealed about 6 different languages - not varieties of Australian English, but different Asian and European languages. And that was truly wonderful. But then, when I had a coffee in Bankstown, all those wonderful young Koreans codeswitched into standard general Australian, with due markers of international youth culture.

[chellezish]

i beg to differ about your comment about australian english being boring. have you traveled around sydney lately? i just have to travel 10 min on the train in any direction and get a different variation.

[CMFrenchEsq]

While you make some pertinent points your explanation of Australian English is quite verbose. You fail to comment on the fact that most Australian's today whether academics, young people or blue collar workers now speak general Australian they only use hints of broad/Ocker/colloquial or alternatively cultivated/RP accents for effect though their is still the odd speaker of broad or cultivated

like yourself though I do detect general Australian too in your accent.