# Wait, wait...Why Does a Killer Robot Have an Austrian Accent?
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 9, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114 "2002-07-09T17:43:10Z")
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114/41 "2002-07-11T19:08:36Z")
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> \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \*
> There is of course an Austrian accent, when they speak german, as well as there is an Irish accent, Ozzie, American and a teeming number of sub-dialects. I won’t convince you either, but I wouldn’t say: “Hey. he’s speaking Spanish with a New York accent.” \*\*I would say it’s an American accent. \*\*
So - ‘American’ is a language now? Sheeesh…
😉
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### Author:  [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114/42 "2002-07-11T19:54:52Z")
:::::Terminator walks in, shoots hijackers:::::
[Austrian accent]Hasta la vista, babies.[/Austrian accent] 😃
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114/43 "2002-07-11T20:51:11Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ResIpsaLoquitor \*
> \*\*:::::Terminator walks in, shoots hijackers:::::
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> [Austrian accent]Hasta la vista, babies.[/Austrian accent] 😃 \*\*
I think you have to _melt_ hijackers, we’re made of the same stuff as the T-2000…
Sorry about the hijack.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114/44 "2002-07-12T00:41:42Z")
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> Saying he has an Austrian accent is like slamming an American: “I can’t understand his French - his Californian accent is so heavy.”
Oh, dude, you are, like, so totally wrong! There is so totally a California accent! Fer sure!
Seriously, I don’t know what you’d call an “American” accent. Is that how they speak in Brooklyn? Los Angeles? New Orleans? Saying Schwartzenegger has an Austrian accent is correct, because he pronounces certain sounds the way they pronounce them in Austria. It’s not correct to say he has a German accent, because that’s _not_ how Germans prounounce things. At least, so I assume. All you dern furriners sound the same to me. Any way, the point is that an accent denotes what region of the world you come from, not what language you first learned to speak.
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### Author:  [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114/45 "2002-07-12T04:42:21Z")
Nah, keep hijackin’. I get happy when I start a thread that runs this long.
I do wonder if the mods want to move it to GDs, though.
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-wait-why-does-a-killer-robot-have-an-austrian-accent/118114/46 "2002-07-12T07:37:48Z")
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Can I just take a moment to say, I just like to say ‘Meatbags’?
“No, I’m afraid there isn’t time.”
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This gag was used in one of the comic series, actually. A gang of Terminators uses the ‘backup time machine’ to travel back to 198X and takes a human prisoner with them. Natch, before they come back, they jam a plasma pistol (well, a ray gun of some kind) into his gut, and extract it after the jaunt.
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