I don't beleive! SYDNEY: Australians who sound like crocodile hunter Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan could soon be a relic of the past, a report said on Sunday.

Research shows the nasal Australian twang - exemplified by the late Irwin and the character Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee - will be phased out within a few decades as the nation shakes loose its colonial roots and moves towards a standard national pronunciation, The Sunday Telegraph said.Words like "mate" would no longer be pronounced "mite" as some of the unique characteristics of Australian speech disappeared, he said.

Meanwhile, the so-called "cultivated" Australian accent would vanish as fewer people mimicked the English accent and moved toward a "standard Australian accent", Moore said. Well I guess this is impossible to see!

fair dinkum? nah mate

mimicked the English accent Does that mean we will turn into poms?!! lol lol lol!!

You said all that? he doesn't know what a dinky Di Aussie is!!hehe

He needs to be thrown into a billabong.

and next they'll be saying that new zealanders will start talking a language that everyone can understand.

struth mate, that will be the day

"and next they'll be saying that new zealanders will start talking a language that everyone can understand."

It ain't easy talkin to sheep....girls are easy......