Road rage in Australia? It's basically a bunch of indecipherable squawking

Excuse me, can you repeat that?
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Jerico Mandybur
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It's often said that the Australian accent is rather grating. And as an Australian, I can confirm that I have no idea what you're talking about.

Ours is a noble dialect, made up of a mixture of accents granted to us by our diverse forefathers and mashed together to make one -- one bizarre, parrot-like accent to rule them all.

Just don't make an Australian angry. That's when their REAL voices emerge. Facebook user and young person (they're less affected by the blight of shrillness), Jake Mandas learnt the hard way when he came across a driver on Wednesday.

Sharing a video of the incident on Facebook, Mandas wrote "I didn't even cut this person off and look at this ancient language I was spoken too in." And wow, it's really something.

We told you. Don't anger Australians. They will make your ears bleed without even trying.

No matter where you hide, they will find you and they will squawk-yell at you until you cry. My mum does it all the time.

To be fair, we'd be pretty angry if a young whipper snapper pointed their phone at us mid-meltdown too.

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Jerico Mandybur

Jerico Mandybur is the editor of Mashable Australia. Previously, she worked as a digital editor at SBS, Oyster Mag, MTV and ASOS. Tweet her at @jerico_m.

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