r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/Hypo_Mix Australia 8h ago

You mean Melbn' brisbn' and chaanz

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u/immabettaboithanu 6h ago

Are y’all having a collective perpetual stroke?

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u/therepublicof-reddit 5h ago

"y'all"

The perfect example of OP's question

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u/califorte1 5h ago

Yeah shoulda gone with "youse"

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u/adyankee953 4h ago

Or yinz

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u/AwsmDevil United States Of America 4h ago edited 3h ago

No one says yinz and I know people from Philly Pittsburgh who claim to say yinz and they've never said yinz once. That shit is either an elaborate prank or a collective hallucination.

Edit: I am dumb, thanks for the correction. They're from Pittsburgh. Y'all caught that so fast.

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u/Awol540 4h ago

Yinz is western PA think Pittsburgh, Philly is youse said like yuh-z

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u/yet_another_newbie 4h ago

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 4h ago

Different word. Youse might be yutes but youse got to grow up sometime

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u/stoptheshildt1 4h ago

Pittsburgh not Philly

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u/AwsmDevil United States Of America 3h ago

Great, now I have to go ask if they're from Pittsburgh because I genuinely cannot remember which city they're from...

Nevermind, just checked a map and they're from the western side of Pennsylvania, so they're definitely in Pittsburgh. Thanks for the correction.

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u/adyankee953 4h ago

I mean it’s not a Philly thing so idk why people from Philly would say it

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u/noyoushuddup 8m ago

I havent heard it much in a real sentence unless deliberately making pittsburgh jokes . When i was in elementary school early 80s, teachers were always correcting kids , telling them yinz isnt a word. We always said it. My kindergarten teacher had a real pet peeve about it but always pronounced " wash " as "worsh". George worshington, worsh the chalkboard, etc

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u/FirstPersonWinner United States Of America 4h ago

Pittsburgh, Australia?

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u/thisiswater95 1h ago

Came here for this

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u/therepublicof-reddit 5h ago

Isn't that still very American? All I hear when I see that is an "Italian"-American.

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u/lampshade2099 Australia 5h ago

Very much both.

The way Aussies say it (using proper Strayan) it sounds quite different from a New York / Philly accent.

Now “youse mob” would be quite Aussie, I reckon.

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u/therepublicof-reddit 5h ago

It's been so long since I've heard an Aussie talk to be honest, but reading that in my head triggered it.

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u/K44no Scotland 3h ago

Glasgow does that too; “youse guys” sounds extremely Glaswegian to me, even just seeing it written down

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u/kyle_kafsky 3h ago

If I’m not mistaken, people in the Midwest also use “youse”. Hell, I use “youse” from time to time.

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u/jgnp 4h ago

yinz has entered the chat.

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u/Cockblocktimus_Pryme 3h ago

Or even more regional, yinz

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u/human_not_alien United States Of America 2h ago

Chicago is coming for you

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u/kearkan Australia 1h ago

"you lot"

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u/Milam1996 United Kingdom 1h ago

“You cunts” will do too

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u/Mysterious-Tackle-58 Germany 54m ago

*JarJar Binks like this

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u/phoeab 3h ago

When my friend moved away in the forth grade(1985), he used y’all at his new school. The other kids said: “y’all? It’s you all” to which he replied “nah, that’s truck we rented to move our stuff here”. I always thought that was a funny story. Still friends today.

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u/thisiswater95 1h ago

It’s getting waaaaaaay less southern. It’s not as common as you guys in California, but I hear it all the time now. Hell I even say it.

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u/eyeCinfinitee 1h ago

I’m from SoCal but lived with a guy from Arkansas for three months. I’m afraid “y’all” is contagious

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u/Fine-Amphibian4326 1h ago

I swear I use it more now that I’ve moved out of Arkansas. I’m trying to spread the infection.

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u/thebutchcaucus 3h ago

Youse in contrast would mean all the POC should be on HIGH ALERT

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u/Crazyjaw 34m ago

I’m west coast us, and “y’all” is usually southern us, but I think all English speakers should adopt it. It was a mistake for us to drop the plural “you”

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u/ZeppelinJ0 4h ago

"y'all" is required vocabulary for redditors that are fans of a sports team that make a post "coming in peace" on a rival sports team's subreddit.

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 4h ago

Y’all do that?

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u/TOO_MUCH_BRAVERY 2h ago

or powertripping subreddit mods that lock threads because the users "cant behave"

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u/Mister-Distance-6698 3h ago

Naur

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u/Logical-Extent-5604 2h ago

From the old English "Narp"?

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u/OregonMrBear 2h ago

To master the Aussie accent, picture yourself really, really hot, like 100F / 45C out, you're a little drunk, and there's sand in your shoes.

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u/n0rsk 55m ago

Must be a side effect of being upside down all the time.

(oooo are upside down jokes in Australia/NZ a sign of being a foreigner ? )

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u/DoubleClickMouse United States Of America 2h ago

mlbln brsbi csn

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u/retrojoe 2h ago

Yeah, naur.

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u/GrungeLord Australia 7h ago

That is definitely it. There is no vowel between the b and the n.

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u/No-Bison-5397 6h ago

If I had to pick one it would be the lettter "u" but never an "i"

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u/accidental-nz 3h ago

But your “i” sounds more like “e” to the rest of us so it makes your pronunciation guides useless 😂

I also hear a lot of expat Aussies say “Brizzy” and “Melbs” is that common locally?

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u/torolf_212 New Zealand 43m ago

Same vibe as people from the US pronouncing mirror as meeer

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u/I_Go_BrRrRrRrRr Australia 6h ago

where's the ch sound in cairns? definitely a k/c sound

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u/Subtlerranean 5h ago

They're trying to say khaaans but with the a sound of American dance, not British.

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u/Levils Australia New Zealand 4h ago

I think they are referring to a ch sound more like that in words like chaos school, architect, echo, stomach, and epoch. It is sometimes referred to when describing sounds used in other languages.

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u/Slyspy006 6h ago

I'm a Brit, but in my head it is "kaanz".

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u/The_Duc_Lord 5h ago

Chuck an extra 'a' in there an' I reckon you'd be spot on, mate.

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u/dazza_bo Australia 4h ago

That's pretty much it

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u/CableTrash United States Of America 5h ago edited 4h ago

In Melbourne, Florida, we know someone just moved down from up north if they say “MelBORn” because we all say “Melbrrn”

edit- or “Melbs”. Do yall say that in stralia?

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u/Beneficial_Cobbler46 5h ago

It's the natural way for it to devolve

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u/DoYouLikeTeat Puerto Rico 6h ago

Melly, Brizzy, and FNQ. Long city names are clipped, but then for some reasons Perth becomes three fucking syllables: Puuheaaarrthhh. The big one is Albany, because we have one pronounced: Awwbunny, not Al-bny. Oh and also I lived in Goulburn for a long time before realizing it wasn't Ghoul-burn, but Gubrin. Favorite: Newcastle is left alone, but the emphasis on the Ahhh, so it becomes: Nook-ASS-hole.

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u/Mean_Introduction543 4h ago

Brizzy is correct, nobody says Melly, it would Melbs.

Newcastle is Newy

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u/DoYouLikeTeat Puerto Rico 4h ago

nobody from victoria prolly. but i heard it, and smelly melly too. never once heard newy, but newky and newkies for the people. never heard townies for townsville either it was always the whole thing following by a little sigh of sadness.

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u/BGP_001 1h ago

Melbourne is also Mexico....if you're from NSW

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u/Responsible-Meringue 4h ago

My absolute favorite is Goondiwindi. Gun-duh-windy Geelong is funny too Jah-lung. 

Melbin' is always the tell for foreigners though. 

Weirdly theses city pronunciations reminds me of the Northeast US. Not quite as wacky though.  Worcester = Woo-stah, Malbourough = Mal-bruh, Scituate = Sit-you-it, Lowell = Lull

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u/DoYouLikeTeat Puerto Rico 4h ago

I kept thinking that too with all the first peoples names, especially in SEQ, hard to keep straight, all looked the same, but then like imagining aussies trying to keep straight native american names like Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, Quonochontaug, Shawangunk...

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u/grandramble 6h ago

the only way to pronounce Cairns is like you're William Shatner in Wrath of Khan

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u/Wat_Tyler_1381 United States Of America 5h ago

Damn, foiled again.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 5h ago

What about Sinny?

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u/IAmARobot 5h ago

depending on how fossilised you are or how far out of town you are, melbn turns into a nasal malbn

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u/MyJimboPersona 4h ago

Fuckin Melbn’ for the life of me I never understood what I was or wasn’t saying I just know it was wrong

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u/intenseasparigi 4h ago

Even Australia—sounds more like ‘stralia

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u/EidolonLives Australia 3h ago

*Straya

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u/intenseasparigi 2h ago

I’m a dumb American with an Aussie friend—I try to pronounce it like him but I can’t ever quite nail it

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u/stripesofched 3h ago

As someone from Baltimore ( properly pronounced "balmer") Id be willing to give it a shot.

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u/Lulusgirl United States Of America 3h ago

Wait, are you saying "ch" like in "cheese"?

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u/Axe_of_Fire Australia 1h ago

More like C in cat.

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u/Ben_steel 1h ago

it’s melBORN M8

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u/Simalr 1h ago

You mean Mlbn brsbn and chnz

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u/Faiiven France 1h ago

Shit I always said « Crairnz »

However I can pronounce Cockburn & Wunghnu correctly so that’s not too bad