Let's examine Daryl Halligans voice.

[deluded pom?]

Great goal kicker though

So great he was telling Thurston what to do in blustery conditions and lo and behold Thurston starts popping them over from the side lines.

 

[God-King Dean]

Nothing worse than a Kiwi with a lisp.

 

[umina panther]

Nothing worse than a Kiwi with a lisp.

Any Seth African

 

[TheDMC]

He has a shocking, ugly kiwi accent, meaning that 80% of words are incorrectly pronounced.
He doesn't seem to realise that individual words require space between them.
He has no variation in tone, pace or cadence.
He sounds like his tongue is too big for his mouth.


How then, is this man a professional broadcaster? The only blight on an otherwise magnificent tournament.

Haha, you aussies are so self delusional, as if your accent is better than the kiwi one or your pronunciation more correct. Seriously, get a grain of self awareness.

Halligan is awful though.

 

[Packy]

If anything you Aussies speak more like Cockneys than Yorkshire people ever will. Darnce, charnce. It's a flat vowel FFS. ;-)

What? I don't know anyone that pronounces like that. Do you even know Australia?

 

[newman]

Haha, you aussies are so self delusional, as if your accent is better than the kiwi one or your pronunciation more correct. Seriously, get a grain of self awareness.

Halligan is awful though.

I cringe when I hear a broad Australian accent too. Many average Aussies are very nasally, but professional broadcasters should have a rounded, more internationalist cadence than that of the average bloke on the street. Listen to most newsreaders for example; they are usually at pains to flatten the edges of their accent. But as I type this I reflect that in NZ they don't really do this.

And give me a break about the mispronunciations. Every culture is guilty of mangling the English language but the kiwis are the worst. The worst. Evury sucund word is spokun incurructly.

 

[newman]

What? I don't know anyone that pronounces like that. Do you even know Australia?

I'm afraid that we do. I was cringing when Vossy was referring to "Fraaaaaahnce" .

 

[Canard]

What? I don't know anyone that pronounces like that. Do you even know Australia?

Its more like Daaaaaance and Chaaaance i.e. a streched vowel

I cringe when I hear a broad Australian accent too. Many average Aussies are very nasally, but professional broadcasters should have a rounded, more internationalist cadence than that of the average bloke on the street. Listen to most newsreaders for example; they are usually at pains to flatten the edges of their accent. But as I type this I reflect that in NZ they don't really do this.

And give me a break about the mispronunciations. Every culture is guilty of mangling the English language but the kiwis are the worst. The worst. Evury sucund word is spokun incurructly.

Agreed that most news readers do it, but thats because of some cultural cringe that we have to speak the "Queens" English.

With Halligan, it isn't his accent that is the problem, its the fact that he is shit (Just like Thaiday, isn't a grub per se, he is just shit)

Hugh McGahan for instance I thought was a far better commentator

 

[newman]

Its more like Daaaaaance and Chaaaance i.e. a streched vowel



Agreed that most news readers do it, but thats because of some cultural cringe that we have to speak the "Queens" English.

With Halligan, it isn't his accent that is the problem, its the fact that he is shit (Just like Thaiday, isn't a grub per se, he is just shit)

Hugh McGahan for instance I thought was a far better commentator

I don't necessarily think so. Newsreaders are obviously trained in pace, inflection and pronunciation. An earlier poster was pumping me up about mispronunciations, but if it is your job to speak publically you pay attention to these things so by letting your ings ring and shortening the long vowels that are in our accent you lower your invitation for ridicule. Remember how much shit Julia Gillard copped because of her awful voice? The queens English is a ridiculous class marker that has no place in Australia and thankfully even an ABC newsreader sounds a long way from a rep of Buckingham Palace, the accents still there but its flattened.

In NZ it really stands out that broadcasters don't at least even slightly check their accents. They will drop a big fat "thus" in a sentence in place of "this".

 

[Dark Chook]

If his boots could talk....

 

[Canard]

I don't necessarily think so. Newsreaders are obviously trained in pace, inflection and pronunciation. An earlier poster was pumping me up about mispronunciations, but if it is your job to speak publically you pay attention to these things so by letting your ings ring and shortening the long vowels that are in our accent you lower your invitation for ridicule. Remember how much shit Julia Gillard copped because of her awful voice? The queens English is a ridiculous class marker that has no place in Australia and thankfully even an ABC newsreader sounds a long way from a rep of Buckingham Palace, the accents still there but its flattened.

In NZ it really stands out that broadcasters don't at least even slightly check their accents. They will drop a big fat "thus" in a sentence in place of "this".

I lived in the UK for 4 years, and on returning to Oz, newsreaders and even the QANTAS pilot sounded Alan Langer with a peg on his nose to me.

It was cringeworthy at first, but then I realised f**k it, its our accent, so be it.

 

[Dark Chook]

The timeless idiosyncrasy of North V Southern hemisphere

One cant speak, the other cant play

 

[newman]

I lived in the UK for 4 years, and on returning to Oz, newsreaders and even the QANTAS pilot sounded Alan Langer with a peg on his nose to me.

It was cringeworthy at first, but then I realised f**k it, its our accent, so be it.

I know that feeling!

 

[Dragon_psa]

Yeah he's utter shit as a commentator. Not nearly as bad as our Yawnion commentators over here though.

 

[newman]

The Australian commentating on the Scotland Italy game is almost as terrible as Halligan. He sounds like a pissed bloke at the pub chiming in to the call. Who is he?

 

[Patorick]

The Australian commentating on the Scotland Italy game is almost as terrible as Halligan. He sounds like a pissed bloke at the pub chiming in to the call. Who is he?

David Woods.

(I think.)

 

[TheDMC]

The accent is the accent, might not be the nicest, but many a pretty lass around the world has gone weak kneed hearing a kiwi or aussie twang. So there is always an upside.

What is worse in my book is that league players and most of the commentators use the verb 'come' instead of 'came' when referring to the past. It bugs me immensely.

 

[deluded pom?]

The accent is the accent, might not be the nicest, but many a pretty lass around the world has gone weak kneed hearing a kiwi or aussie twang. So there is always an upside.

The batteries on her hearing aid must have been flat. I hope you didn't pet her guide dog either.

 

[TheDMC]

The batteries on her hearing aid must have been flat. I hope you didn't pet her guide dog either.

I was generalizing. Me, i much prefer sheep.

 

[Paullyboy]

I know it's been mentioned once, but I'm just going to chime in.

The South African accent makes all other accents sounds amazing.