There are Australians who lament the fact that Australian youth are losing their accents, due to exposure to American movies and television shows. I have made the point that the American accent they fear is not an American regional accent, but a sanitized and more elocuted version of English spoken by television announcers that regional Americans can understand, and that true regional accents of the US are disappearing as well, in favor of this bland national version that can be universally understood.
G'day mate: 'Lazy' Australian accent caused by 'alcoholic slur' of heavy-drinking early settlers
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