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Even southern Californians? We're the only ones I've met who seem to speak 'by the book' as far as I can tell. No noticable, random infections. Every word prono
by coderdude 16y ago
Even southern Californians? We're the only ones I've met who seem to speak 'by the book' as far as I can tell. No noticable, random infections. Every word pronounced like the dictionary says it should be. Not talking about "valley speak," which no one uses anyway now.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoSouthern California definitely has an accent. I live here and I can hear the natives. I think the fact that Socal has become the defacto American accent via TV may be distracting you.
- coderdude 16y agoCould be, but I stand by my point that we mangle language the least when we speak. No pronouncing college like "callage" etc. I wonder if the schools really teach that.
- lukev 16y agoLanguage's are impossible to mangle. Dictionaries only describe, not dictate. If the majority started to say "callage," then "callage" would become the "correct" (i.e standard) form.
- nkassis 16y agoExcept if you live in a place like France or Quebec. They have white beards in some tall towers creating the one true French (I swear they look like Saruman). One such example is the crap they are trying to implement with the new spelling convention. Wikipedia page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_French_orthography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_French_orthography
- mahmud 16y agoFarsi needs a similar thing, at least on Wikipedia. There is absolutely no effort in translating words to Farsi, so they cheat and transliterate the English version. I have a habit of hovering the mouse over the "فارسي" links and always see the English title with Farsi conjugation, transliterated into Arabic script :-( It's sad because it's such a beautiful and rich language; the young folks doing the translation are doing it a great disservice diluting it in their rush for volume. For Arabic; almost every Arab is a gray-beard language nazi! All traces of foreign influence are removed with urgent and great prejudice. Which is good.
- lkozma 16y agoThere are examples of "mangling" which were successful. In Hungarian for example in the late 1700s a few writers have coined tens of thousands of new words. Today some thousands of these are so widely used that it's impossible to guess they were invented. Others failed and sound ridiculously funny today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_reform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_reform
- inferno0069 16y agoSorry, but it's Iowa / the Midwest, not Southern California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American#Regional_home_of_General_American http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American#Regional_home_...