Talk:Strine

Merge into Australian English?
This stub article adds very little beyond the subject's section in the article on Australian English. I propose that the sources and extra information in this article should be moved over and this article deleted. I won;t do this myself as I'm not very good with Wikipedia yet. Bishopgraeme (talk) 10:33, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't exist
I have lived in Australia for all of my nearly 50 years. I have never heard anyone talk "strine". Australia has many regional accents but none of them approach this fictional accent. The times I have heard anyone deliberately talking strine (like when some idiot tries to demonstrate it on television) I can't understand a word they are saying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.31.215.66 (talk) 10:51, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

If it is invented, or stupid, or both, that doesn't mean it ceases to exist. TooManyFingers (talk) 07:24, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Liaison?
There's definitely nothing liaison-like in the word "Strine" itself. Liaison = joining words or syllables together by *adding* sounds (sort of "bridge sounds" in between words that aren't strictly necessary but sound better). I wouldn't claim that liaison doesn't happen in Strine, but I think elision (i.e. *omitting* some sounds that you can get by without) is the more common situation there. Please correct me if I'm wrong. TooManyFingers (talk) 07:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Strine?? You mean Strayan, right?
Is this a foreign take on the Australian dialect (ie, English or American), or is this spoken in an East Coast hamlet somewhere or part of an accent specific to a particular time period or generation (ie, post-war Aust English, pre-80s/post-90s Aust English, etc)? I ask because this is known universally in Oz as 'Strayan' (or at least it is in every state (inc Tasmania)and territory West of the Blue Mountains). Strine is about as universal as the South Australian usage of Fritz, Victorian usage of 'grouse' or Queensland's usage and spelling of 'eh?' (aye?), which is to say that it's not. Strine is a very niche term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.2.114.87 (talk) 10:20, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * It doesn't exist. I've lived in Australia 47 of my 53 years, all up and down the east coast and never heard one Australian person pronounce "Australian" as strine. In fast speech, it is pronounced as "Strayan" by a few people, probably including myself. I don't think it's a foreign take - without searching for it, the name "Harold Scruby" comes to mind and I'm certain he's an Australian. I'm glad this article calls the term "exaggerated" because that at least hints at the possibility it's non-existent - which I think it is. Peter Greenwell (talk) 04:10, 30 April 2022 (UTC)