Epiphany! You guys talk funny....
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Mariner said:london-boy said:To me, anything above Zone 3 in North London is "Northern"....
Bloody southerners.
Anything above King's Cross is North!!!
sytaylor said:Mariner said:london-boy said:To me, anything above Zone 3 in North London is "Northern"....
Bloody southerners.
Seconded! Only takes two hours from kings cross to leeds btw, which is pretty nifty.
2 hrs on a Concorde?
/ducks
sytaylor said:
Yeah, don't wanna lose your daily gaydar.co.uk coverage just because u're commuting!!!
sytaylor said:If only they had an openzone hotspot on board every virgin train *drools*
Over the hotspot, not the gaydar reference
OF COURSE!!! Who'd ever doubt your straightness!!!??
Mariner said:Sage said:
Well, yeah - but then cockneys are a bit thick!
Council Flatz Community innit!!! Errrrr...Deepak said:There are accents in every language. In Hindi we have different accent every 100 kms or so.
Same for Italy, but the distance is about 30Km...
Sweden has quite an extreme amount of dialects also, I would think it's right at the top of the list of #dialects/capita. Just a bit of useless information...
We have a population about the size of NYC or London spread out on an area of California roughly, but a trained ear can pinpoint exactly what town you come from with quite some accuracy. Even towns 30km apart... Personally I have the worst dialect in the nation apparently, as claimed on a national TV show("Värsta språket" for us swedes).
I don't know, but it doesn't seem quite so severe in America for instance, but it may be because(even probable ) my ear isn't trained enough... I can discern some american accents quite well, but more in a general area sense like states, if we cull away those that really stand out(boston, brooklyn, jersey, et.c.). Especially the mid-western states are very hard for me to tell a difference.
We have a population about the size of NYC or London spread out on an area of California roughly, but a trained ear can pinpoint exactly what town you come from with quite some accuracy. Even towns 30km apart... Personally I have the worst dialect in the nation apparently, as claimed on a national TV show("Värsta språket" for us swedes).
I don't know, but it doesn't seem quite so severe in America for instance, but it may be because(even probable
) my ear isn't trained enough... I can discern some american accents quite well, but more in a general area sense like states, if we cull away those that really stand out(boston, brooklyn, jersey, et.c.). Especially the mid-western states are very hard for me to tell a difference.MPI said:Sweden has quite an extreme amount of dialects also, I would think it's right at the top of the list of #dialects/capita. Just a bit of useless information...
We have a population about the size of NYC or London spread out on an area of California roughly, but a trained ear can pinpoint exactly what town you come from with quite some accuracy. Even towns 30km apart... Personally I have the worst dialect in the nation apparently, as claimed on a national TV show("Värsta språket" for us swedes).
I don't know, but it doesn't seem quite so severe in America for instance, but it may be because(even probable
Heh... Try that in a country that is smaller than Sweden, has almost 60 million people, and the same dialect/accent/distance ratio...
It's all good, adds to the character of a country i think.
MPI said:Yeah, I know of the plethora of UK dialects, that's why I didn't use it as an example, besides, you're 8 times as many as us.
I love the different british accents, btw. I use to try and learn to pick them out whenever I watch british TV... So, I get bored sometimes, sue me!
Nah, i meant Italy... The UK isn't nearly at that level...
Finland has 7 main dialect areas, and they are further divided making the total dialect about 29.
Those "sub-dialects" do not often differ that much. For example I could reliably tell maybe three of the eight different subdialects from the area I've born.
But the main dialects can differ so much it can be hard to understand what the other is saying. I find it almost impossible to understand some south-west areas dialects, as they would my mid-finland-eastern dialect.
And no, I don't usually speak any dialect, but I often notice that when I speak with someone who speaks either the dialect where I live now, or the dialect where I was born and raised, I start to use some of that dialect with them too.
Those "sub-dialects" do not often differ that much. For example I could reliably tell maybe three of the eight different subdialects from the area I've born.
But the main dialects can differ so much it can be hard to understand what the other is saying. I find it almost impossible to understand some south-west areas dialects, as they would my mid-finland-eastern dialect.
And no, I don't usually speak any dialect, but I often notice that when I speak with someone who speaks either the dialect where I live now, or the dialect where I was born and raised, I start to use some of that dialect with them too.
london-boy said:sytaylor said:If only they had an openzone hotspot on board every virgin train *drools*
Over the hotspot, not the gaydar reference
OF COURSE!!! Who'd ever doubt your straightness!!!??
GAH don't remind me about the local girls... their gaydar is about as successful as pre-wright brothers planes.
The populated areas of Canada (ie: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, to a limited extent Edmonton) all have bland 'generic' North American accents, ie: typical North American television voices. However, go up north and then suddenly it sounds like Fargo The only area of Canada I know of to actually have a distinct dialect is Newfoundland.. yeeesh, that's not even english!
The only area of Canada I know of to actually have a distinct dialect is Newfoundland.. yeeesh, that's not even english!
