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A few years ago I moved for work from a town in northern Italy to another. While only 70km away the two places have very distinct accents. After a couple of yea
by mrighele 6y ago
A few years ago I moved for work from a town in northern Italy to another. While only 70km away the two places have very distinct accents. After a couple of years people from my hometown would comment on how I sounded as a guy from the new town (people from the second town would never mistake my origins though, so I guess I had a funny mixed accent).
- borroka 6y agoI can recognize Italian accents and words that are distinct between towns that are < 20 km apart.
- navaati 6y agoAs a Frenchman in Dublin, Ireland, even I could hear a distinct accent difference between people from the north and the south banks of the river. Now I wonder if the same could be true of Paris and I'm just blind to it because it's my native language.
- barrkel 6y agoNorthside and southside Dublin are radically different accents. Less so now, with mass media and increased mobility gradually reducing the extremes, but exemplars of each are almost chalk and cheese - like Queen's English vs Cockney. Northside drops trailing Ts, replacing them with a gentle glottal stop ("give me my coat" -> "gimme me coa'"), "book" may be pronounced "buke", etc. Southside, at the sterotypical maximum, pushes trailing Ts towards SH and broadens vowels ("are you all right" -> "ore you awl roish" - it's not quite sh, but in that direction). (I was born in Dublin, my father and his siblings grew up in North Strand in the shade of Croke Park, but I grew up in Galway, so I observed the accent as an outsider when staying in Dublin.)