Hoot hoot?

The fact that cr*cker is not recognized by the slur filter but removed is says a lot about society

The biggest factor in accent is class. Lower paid working class Australians will generally have a broader more classically stereotyped Australian accent. Your ruling class, national bourgeois, PMC, richer petit bourgeois etc will have a private school voice that comes off a little bit upper class English, a bit mid-atlantic.

There’s the historical factors that contribute to Australia’s usage of the word c*nt too.

If you go back a century or so, there was a pretty clear “class” divide (in a non-Marxist, Bourdieuvian sense) between the working people and the ruling elite.

Australian larrikin culture was deeply skeptical of authority, pretentious people, and those who sought to join the ranks of the ruling class (or at least to emulate them.) Partly by its historical roots in lower class culture and partly by intent, larrikin culture would be crass and vulgar because this was like a shibboleth; if you were capable of engaging in the vulgarity then you’d signal to the other people around you that you were “one of them” rather than being like a haughty, polished Eton College graduate who would instinctually turn their nose up at that sort of stuff.

While I’d argue that the spirit of larrikin culture is dead and its bloated corpse looms large over contemporary Australian culture as a grim parody of what it once was, the tradition of being crass and vulgar remains, and it’s still used to signal to in-groups.

What that means is Australians use often use the term c*nt as a term of endearment but that will only be with people who are on the same level. You wouldn’t hear an office worker using it as a term of endearment to their boss or supervisor but when they are around workmates having a drink together, you’re much more likely to hear it then.

It’s a really interesting cultural phenomenon but I’m completely in favour of banning the use of the word c*nt in this space because the alternative will only provide a flimsy pretext for chuds to claim that ackshually they were using the term “like an Aussie”.

Semi-seriously the Australia accent doesn’t really have big regional variations.

never_been_to_adelaide.txt

Yeah, I can pick out Melbourne vs Sydney accents, and even Sydney East vs North vs West (and the various cultural group differences such as Mediterranean-influenced Australian), but it’s not something most people would pick up on, even many Australians. Someone from out in the country is gonna think the West and upper North has harsher vowels than them (a holdback of First Nations English vernacular) and the others are just posh city boys.

It’s more like someone from London being able to pick up what street you’re from.

Other white A*stralians

🥺

In Australia we say removed when we mean mate (congenially) and we say mate when we mean removed (aggressively)

Particularly annoying hearing people go fake-RP and cons since Tennant had a fucking Scottish accent and Ecceston had a Yorkshire!

If you’re outside of Hexbear and you slur it gets replaced by removed when viewed from Hexbear.

If you’re inside of Hexbear and you slur they take you outside and shoot you in the face.

racism factory instructions advise changing your slur filter every 10 to 15 thousand miles

Hexbear has one so we literally can’t call people slurs, so when people claim that we have (which has happened before) it’s very easy to show that they’re lying because if we did it would just change it to “you stupid removed”

If you haven’t found it yet, you’re doing great!

it depends on your instance whether it’s turned on or not. but yes, lemmy has a slur filter. hexbear has it turned on so our posts get slurs turned into removed and posts with slurs from other instances get turned into removed on our side.

Hexbear uses a slur filter and it’s shown me how many people from other instances casually use the r-word in 2023

Make this a fucking tagline cowards.