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Is it just me, or are people actually getting worse at being civil?

The driver then allegedly accelerated into the man before continuing along Nelson Street towards Inkerman Street.The driver did not stop to help the victim, who was treated by paramedics at the scene and taken to The Alfred with a broken leg.

via Man critical among pedestrians hit in same suburb.

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Josh Kinnal [sic] has the peculiar (but spreading?) habit of pronouncing his ‘r’s American style, even though he is not American. Is this the Australian International accent?

(From the Lorraine Crescent blog)

Look. I know I over pronounce the letter ‘R’ in some words, American-style. I also know that I say the word ‘idea’ in a way that is different to other people.

The thing about the letter ‘R’ started, I think, when I first went to New York in 1992. I was 18, impressionable, and picked up the accent in about 3 days. It took me 2 months of being back home to shake most of it. The thing that stuck was the way I say ‘beer’, ‘here’, ‘their’, and other words that rhyme.

It’s probably never going away now. That’s just the way I speak. I’m used to it and it helps me be better understood than other Australians when I’m in the USA, so maybe it’s a good thing.

Whatever it is, it’s a part of me. I don’t force it and I don’t apologise for it.

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(here’s the original)