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– A communications professor in Australia has caused quite a stir Down Under with a public complaint that almost everyone there talks like drunks. In tracing the origins of the Australian accent in the Age, Dean Frenkel of Victoria University describes its Aboriginal, English, Irish, and German roots. So far, so good. But then Frenkel asserts that Australia's forefathers hit the bottle so often that they and "added an alcoholic slur to our national speech patterns," one that has been passed along from generation to generation in the 200 years since. "We are teaching our children to speak drunk—it’s so bizarre," Frenkel tells news.com.au. The site offers up this doozy of an example: "G’day, are ya gonna go for a sniddy ana bevo this arvo?" (For the uninitiated, Sniddy's is a popular restaurant chain, bevo is an alcoholic beverage, and arvo is afternoon.) Frenkel complains about lazy articulation, missing consonants, and vowels that blur with other vowels (night into noight), and he calls for schools to begin emphasizing proper speaking skills. “We will not achieve near to the degree we are capable of if we don’t concentrate on our language." But a skeptical sociolinguist tells Australia's 9news.com that Frenkel's view is not "well-versed in history or linguistics." And even if it were true that alcohol is responsible for the nation's distinctive sound, so be it. "Linguists don't think any form of language is necessarily wrong or bad or incorrect," she says. As long as people make themselves understood, that's all that matters. Besides, as the Independent notes, a survey this year found that Australia's accent is the fourth most attractive, behind British, American, and Irish. (But will Australians begin spending with "dollarydoos" soon?)

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Australians know all about the three ‘‘R’’s, but there needs to be a fourth on the curriculum: rhetoric. 
  
 Let's get things straight about the origins of the Australian accent. Aussie-speak developed in the early days of colonial settlement from a cocktail of English, Irish, Aboriginal and German – before another mystery influence was slipped into the mix. 
  
 The Australian alphabet cocktail was spiked by alcohol. Our forefathers regularly got drunk together and through their frequent interactions unknowingly added an alcoholic slur to our national speech patterns. For the past two centuries, from generation to generation, drunken Aussie-speak continues to be taught by sober parents to their children. 
  
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 Link We must reclaim rhetoric as an important fixture of Australian culture, teach it to all students in our schools and raise our standards of communication. Photo: iStock 
  
 The average Australian speaks to just two thirds capacity – with one third of our articulator muscles always sedentary as if lying on the couch; and that's just concerning articulation. Missing consonants can include missing "t"s (Impordant), "l"s (Austraya) and "s"s (yesh), while many of our vowels are lazily transformed into other vowels, especially "a"s to "e"s (stending) and "i"s (New South Wyles) and "i"s to "oi"s (noight). 
  
 Given that articulation is a functional product of our neuro-muscular network, it is possible that our national speech impediment is a symptom of inferior brain functioning. But this argument is countered by a significant set of cerebral people who think brilliantly but express poorly. Many scientists, for example, still struggle to communicate effectively. But thanks to a few key science communicators and contemporary initiatives such as 3MT, it is improving. Clearly the problem is not related to class – it's worse than that. 
  
 Poor communication is evident among all sectors of Australian society and the annual cost to Australia may amount to billions of dollars. 
  
 It all starts with our education curriculum. Basic education commonly refers to the three "R"s – reading, writing and arithmetic. But there is a missing "R" and a gaping hole in the Australian education system – the fourth "R", rhetoric. 
  
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 If we all received communication training, Australia would become a cleverer country. When rhetoric is presented effectively, it enables content to be communicated in a listener-friendly environment, with well-chosen words spoken at a listenable rate and with balanced volume, fluency, clarity and understandability. 
  
 Rhetoric is made up of a number of key skills including expression, communication and delivery. Expression is a meta-skill that includes intent (accuracy), connection (to self) and efficiency (with words). It involves thought processing, judgment, filtering, composition and energy release. The last point is important because unexpressed energy can implode. 
  
 Communication accomplishes other things, most importantly social bonding, transfer of information and problem solving. Delivery is the communication vehicle that carries the content, enabling concepts to be identified, developed and crucial information to be transferred. 
  
 Despite other imperfections, America's education system has a huge advantage over the Australian system that results, generally, in Americans communicating at higher levels than Australians. In fact the communication skills of most average Americans would be just below that of Australia's best speakers. It is not surprising that rhetoric is an essential part of the American education system. 
  
 In Australia, by contrast, rhetoric is merely taught as a non-compulsory subject in a tiny minority of schools. As a result the overwhelming majority of Australians lack basic communication training – and our society is poorer for it. 
  
 It is self-evident that poor speech skills lead to lack of confidence and a tendency to internalise emotions and thoughts. It can also contribute to difficulties in relationships, poor decision-making, loneliness, stress retention and stalled development. It may also be a contributor to Australia's lack of cultural substance. 
  
 Yet Australia has a history of storytelling that goes back tens of thousands of years. Aboriginal educators artfully employed rhetoric to teach essential survival information, pass on traditional cultural knowledge and develop social bonds. Storytelling, of course, played a central role in Aboriginal Dreamtime. Listen to Aboriginal storytellers today and you will hear a rare gift of Australian skill and authentic culture. In fact rhetoric has much in common with didgeridoo and boomerangs. Until recently Aboriginal society was largely aural-based, with hundreds of languages and very special knowledge. 
  
 Rhetorical skills are a crucial part of the Australian fabric. Yet I have no doubt there would be resistance to introducing the fourth "R" into the curriculum. Why? Because Australia is burdened with a values problem that nonsensically plays down the importance of speech skills, regarding them as superficial. Indeed a recent trend in linguistics teaches that poor speech doesn't matter at all. 
  
 This dumbing down of speech may emanate from western-centric arrogance that overvalues western civilisation and undervalues the spoken word and indigenous knowledge. Yet speech was the dominant format of human communication for about 100,000 years, until writing was invented about 5500 years ago. 
  
 Of course writing does have some advantages over speech as a communication medium. While speech is constrained by the fast pace of real time, good writing usually involves more incisive expression thanks to an ability to stall time and to edit. Writing also enables ideas and information to be communicated in detail and copied for the masses, in contrast to the evanescence of speech. 
  
 The holes in our education system reflect holes in our culture. It is time to take our beer goggles off and examine our cultural values with dispassionate and clear eyes. We must reclaim rhetoric as an important fixture of Australian culture, teach it to all students in our schools and raise our standards of communication. 
  
 Australia, it is no longer acceptable to be smarter than we sound. 
  
 Dean Frenkel is a lecturer in public speaking and communications at Victoria University. ||||| Video 
  
 Image The most Australian voices ever 1:14 From pollies to Crocodile Dundee, 'Strayans certainly have a broad accent 
  
 Olivia Lambert news.com.au 
  
 UP to 80 per cent of Australians talk like a drunk person, even when they’re sober. 
  
 If you don’t believe me, think back to a conversation you may have had with one of your “Strayan” mates recently. 
  
 Maybe it was along the lines of “g’day, are ya gonna go for a sniddy ana bevo this arvo?” 
  
 Victoria University public speaking and communications tutor and lecturer Dean Frenkel has studied the Australian accent and has discovered an alcoholic slur introduced by early settlers is to blame for our demise. 
  
 “The one thing in common all the cultures had when they came to Australia was alcohol and it brought people together,” Mr Frenkel told news.com.au 
  
 “The early stages of colonial Australia happened under the influence and given that speech is like the flu, it’s contagious, when people talked they were handing these habits down. 
  
 “There is no doubt that our alcohol culture impacts our speech. 
  
 “Alcohol to Australians is like guns to Americans and we are teaching our children to speak drunk — it’s so bizarre.” 
  
 Australians are guilty of slurring words and not articulating and are also not using language to express emotion which the expert said often resulted in violence. 
  
 Mr Frenkel said Australians only used two thirds of their articulation capacity, with the other third “left on the couch”. 
  
 We have four groups of articulator muscles which control the jaw, tongue, lips and voice box. 
  
 Those muscle groups are worked when we speak but Australians are said to be lazy and don’t use the muscles properly. 
  
 While discovering the history of the Australian accent, Mr Frenkel found an international researcher who said the average person had a vocabulary of about 35,000 words. 
  
 The average university graduate has a vocabulary of 70,000 words and those who are bilingual stretch to 100,000 words. 
  
 However, Mr Frenkel said in Australia the average vocabulary sat at about 30,000 words. 
  
 “It could be even less,” he said. 
  
 Surprisingly, there is one benefit to speaking in a way that can at times be nonsensical. 
  
 Mr Frenkel claims people who don’t speak properly are more popular than those who do. 
  
 “Not articulating our words makes us non-threatening on an international basis and people are not intimidated by our words or confronted by those who are smarter than they sound,” he said. 
  
 “Within Australia you are more likely to be included socially if you don’t speak that well.” 
  
 But those who are articulate beware; poor speakers are often “suspicious” of those who are well-versed. 
  
 Mr Frenkel said the “Australian” alphabet really only had 23 letters. 
  
 “Our a’s sound like e’s so we may as well start the alphabet with b,” he said. 
  
 “We also drop our t’s and l’s a lot of the time.” 
  
 Mr Frenkel said his least favourite words were “straya”, “impordent” and “foocha”. 
  
 “I’d like it if people could say the name of the country,” he said. 
  
 “I think if you did a poll less than 50 per cent of Australians would actually be able to pronounce it. 
  
 “I’ve also lost the battle to t’s — people substitute t’s for d’s and it’s a shocker but it’s too widespread.” 
  
 Mr Frenkel said poor speech was not related to class, with politicians even among the culprits. 
  
 “The last two premiers in Victoria would pronounce their position as ‘premia’ and Mike Baird pronounces his state as ‘New South Whyles’,” Mr Frenkel said. 
  
 He even used former Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a guinea pig to further study the Australian accent. 
  
 “The public was not able to understand him and he’s a good example of somebody whose communication abilities needed to be better for the job he had,” Mr Frenkel said. 
  
 “He generalised words, spoke in slogans and was not automatically able to find the words he needed. 
  
 “He did not articulate policy well.” 
  
 Mr Frenkel made clear his research wasn’t to criticise Australia and said it was an act of love for his country. 
  
 “I just want it to be better — don’t shoot the messenger — can you really deny there is a communication issue that needs to be pointed out?” He said. 
  
 “We will not achieve near to the degree we are capable of if we don’t concentrate on our language. 
  
 “We are growing up as a nation with an arm tied behind its back and we are a remarkable country but we would be even more remarkable if we fulfilled our potential.” 
  
 Mr Frenkel is calling for schools to teach children public speaking and communication skills. 
  
 “They are future adults and are going to teach their parents how to communicate better and really raise the standard of the country,” he said. ||||| 1/57 12 March 2018 Rescuers work to save passengers from a plane crash at Kathmandu airport in Nepal AP 
  
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