I speak modern English and have an Australian accent.Let ...
I speak modern English and have an Australian accent.
Let me refine this slightly;
I was born and raised in Australia and have not yet spent a full month out of the country. SO, it would stand to reason that whatever accent I have, it would have to be 'Australian'. Regularly, however, my fellow Australians ask me where I was born, what accent that is that I speak with.
I'm a foreigner in my own country. (As I think are MANY of my fellow Australians feel they are). The cultural enclaves and zones in the cities blur and run into each other. The flux to and from the outback and the coast erodes the old guard in many country towns while the traffic of human particles attract and repel the steady influx of immigrants, spreading and filtering...
This place is a fractured multitude of part-cultures, corralled together by the low fence of policy and cowed by an apathy bred of comfort.I want to belong to a better culture, but no existing culture has presented itself offering the kind of improvements, both politically and technologically that I'm sure humans are currently capable of achieving.
I'm probably ranting. (Listened to too much shithouse political news and didn't flush it out of my head with zombie killing games.)
Here is a picture;
'Fingerlith' [Felt pen on paper - A6]
Let me refine this slightly;
I was born and raised in Australia and have not yet spent a full month out of the country. SO, it would stand to reason that whatever accent I have, it would have to be 'Australian'. Regularly, however, my fellow Australians ask me where I was born, what accent that is that I speak with.
I'm a foreigner in my own country. (As I think are MANY of my fellow Australians feel they are). The cultural enclaves and zones in the cities blur and run into each other. The flux to and from the outback and the coast erodes the old guard in many country towns while the traffic of human particles attract and repel the steady influx of immigrants, spreading and filtering...
This place is a fractured multitude of part-cultures, corralled together by the low fence of policy and cowed by an apathy bred of comfort.I want to belong to a better culture, but no existing culture has presented itself offering the kind of improvements, both politically and technologically that I'm sure humans are currently capable of achieving.
I'm probably ranting. (Listened to too much shithouse political news and didn't flush it out of my head with zombie killing games.)
Here is a picture;
'Fingerlith' [Felt pen on paper - A6] 
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