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The original was posted on /r/newzealand by /u/somaticsymptom on 2025-01-18 10:47:31+00:00.

Or has it been so long since I lived in Auckland that I didn’t notice an accent shift? I see so many ads on tv and scenes in kiwi shows where it seems like they’re deliberately going for a stereotype of our accent that sounds so unnatural - like a deliberate skipping of every vowel, an attempt to sound as ‘Billy T James’ as possible. It’s just so jarring, especially coming from women and children. Nobody I know IRL speaks like this.