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Languages have always been fluid with mutually unintelligible dialects. A fixed unchanging uniform national language is a modern invention.
by random314 4y ago
Languages have always been fluid with mutually unintelligible dialects. A fixed unchanging uniform national language is a modern invention.
- ksaj 4y agoI'm sure television news did that. The TV News accent is so uniform across the board that even the Canadian accent is hard to distinguish on some stations. Well, you still can, but when we listen to old broadcasts, that Canadian accent freaks a lot of us oot. We're inching closer and closer to the full-blown CNN accent on Canadian TV news. Incidentally I was amused to discover that people on the west coast actually often do say "oot and aboot." Until a couple decades ago, I thought it was a myth.
- john_the_writer 4y agoListen to Sara Palen talk. She sounds very much like a Canadian.
- ksaj 4y agoYes, she does sound like a Canadian. That accent does show up in the north, and especially on the west coast. The first time I heard her speak, I thought she was Canadian. Alaska is beside northwestern Canada, so it all makes sense.