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Sometimes I try to play up the Australian accent/stereotype to foreigners for a bit of a laugh, only to then get in to a conversation with other Australians and realise I was actually playing it down.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I know that NSW means New South Wales, but I can only read it as North South West. Before I learned what it actually meant, that was very confusing.