+Giuseppe, There have been a number of different ways in which "Waltzing Matilda" had been performed through the years since first written by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Patterson. The version heard in this edition is likely closest to the earliest version, thus it's more "authentic-sounding" than other renditions.
Neil Forbes yes, the words are the original Banjo P. stuff, and this may indeed have been the preferred melody used for his words in his time, but the melody in this film only vaguely resembles what the world at large, (including Australia), knows to be the tune to "Waltzing Matilda"... They are so melodically different that I struggle to see the modern/better-known tune as having evolved from the archaic/lesser-known tune, despite the obviously similar chord structure... It's like hearing "Auld Lang Syne" sung to some other tune, such as Händel's "Joy to the World"; it works, but it's weird... Of course, this is a video about language, not music... The melody is hardly the point, in this context at least... I just realized I am WAY off-topic! Lol 😉
At the 49:00 mark, that ad with Paul Hogan, he should've said at the end, "I'll slip an extra PRAWN on the barbie(barbeque) for ya*" (*ya is the Aussie accent-affected manner of saying of "You"). We in Australia know that crustacean as the PRAWN, plural is PRAWNS. We have NEVER called them SHRIMP!
+Michael Sommers: There's the point. The fact that the ad was to be run in the USA meant that Hogan had the perfect opportunity to teach the Americans the CORRECT name for that seafood delicacy.... but he squibbed it!
It's an ad, not a dialect coach. To teach, both words would have had to have been used: "Put another prawn, which you lot correctly call a shrimp, on the barbie."
It was a tourism ad. but when an Aussie icon like Paul Hogan is trying to sell Australia to a bunch of potential Yankie tourists, the least he can do is use correct names for seafood delicacies.
Michael Sommers ☺ lol, it's been so long since I watched this, I'll have to re-listen to the song to understand what I meant by my comment, but thank you for the info; I always enjoy learning more about music... Happy St Patrick day, btw!
it's a shame Cockney in London is pretty much a dead language, where I was born (Sussex) was a popular choice for londoners to move to after the 80/90's. As a result I picked up a lot of cockney words and slang from my peers at school
Great series; however, I´m a little disappointed as we are presented mostly with men, as though women didn´t speak the language or as if they hadn´t influenced the language´s evolution. Women might have not been allowed to write or study yet they did speak the language and taught it to their children.
Mercedes Fernández for one, you're wrong; there are just as many women in this series as are required, no more, no less... And secondly, if this series was indeed an exercise in chauvinism, (which I maintain it is not), so what? You should make your own doc and it can blessedly free of "Y" chromosomes, if that's what blows your skirt up.
Love that our accent derives from cockney easily the best accent in England a shame it’s been displaced from its ancestral Homelands of the east end proper geeza
That speech synthesizer repeating, "Ow are ya mayte" over and over cracks me up 😁
33:20 the strangest rendition of "Waltzing Matilda" I've ever heard... The melody is upside down and inside out!
It's the more traditional rendition of the song.
Neil Forbes oh... In that case I guess it's the more familiar version that is indeed "strange". 😃
+Giuseppe, There have been a number of different ways in which "Waltzing Matilda" had been performed through the years since first written by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Patterson. The version heard in this edition is likely closest to the earliest version, thus it's more "authentic-sounding" than other renditions.
It is sung by the English folksinger A.L. Lloyd, from the album _The Great Australian Legend_ from Topic Records.
Neil Forbes yes, the words are the original Banjo P. stuff, and this may indeed have been the preferred melody used for his words in his time, but the melody in this film only vaguely resembles what the world at large, (including Australia), knows to be the tune to "Waltzing Matilda"... They are so melodically different that I struggle to see the modern/better-known tune as having evolved from the archaic/lesser-known tune, despite the obviously similar chord structure... It's like hearing "Auld Lang Syne" sung to some other tune, such as Händel's "Joy to the World"; it works, but it's weird...
Of course, this is a video about language, not music... The melody is hardly the point, in this context at least... I just realized I am WAY off-topic! Lol 😉
At the 49:00 mark, that ad with Paul Hogan, he should've said at the end, "I'll slip an extra PRAWN on the barbie(barbeque) for ya*" (*ya is the Aussie accent-affected manner of saying of "You"). We in Australia know that crustacean as the PRAWN, plural is PRAWNS. We have NEVER called them SHRIMP!
The add was meant to be shown in the US, not Australia. 'Prawn' is not used in the US.
+Michael Sommers: There's the point. The fact that the ad was to be run in the USA meant that Hogan had the perfect opportunity to teach the Americans the CORRECT name for that seafood delicacy.... but he squibbed it!
It's an ad, not a dialect coach. To teach, both words would have had to have been used: "Put another prawn, which you lot correctly call a shrimp, on the barbie."
It was a tourism ad. but when an Aussie icon like Paul Hogan is trying to sell Australia to a bunch of potential Yankie tourists, the least he can do is use correct names for seafood delicacies.
He _did_ use the correct name.
The song at the end sounds a lot like "The Dubliners"...
It's "Lime Juice Tub", sung by the English folksinger A.L. Lloyd on the album _The Great Australian Legend_ from Topic Records.
Michael Sommers ☺ lol, it's been so long since I watched this, I'll have to re-listen to the song to understand what I meant by my comment, but thank you for the info; I always enjoy learning more about music... Happy St Patrick day, btw!
Here's another version: ruclips.net/video/DGeWpwK2xbY/видео.html
it's a shame
Cockney in London is pretty much a dead language, where I was born (Sussex) was a popular choice for londoners to move to after the 80/90's. As a result I picked up a lot of cockney words and slang from my peers at school
Sad to see my accent as seen in this video is derived from cockney god bless cockney and the Australian accent god bless
Great series; however, I´m a little disappointed as we are presented mostly with men, as though women didn´t speak the language or as if they hadn´t influenced the language´s evolution. Women might have not been allowed to write or study yet they did speak the language and taught it to their children.
Mercedes Fernández for one, you're wrong; there are just as many women in this series as are required, no more, no less... And secondly, if this series was indeed an exercise in chauvinism, (which I maintain it is not), so what? You should make your own doc and it can blessedly free of "Y" chromosomes, if that's what blows your skirt up.
Doesn't Dame Edna count?
It's not about equally representing both sexes (which it does by the way) but presenting the facts.
@Mercedes Fernández: Good point.
Men are generally better subjects to study accent and dialect from, the Orton Dialect Survey interviewed mostly men for the same reason
Love that our accent derives from cockney easily the best accent in England a shame it’s been displaced from its ancestral
Homelands of the east end proper geeza