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Is that not just regional accents? Don't most countries with a reasonably sized population have differences in punctuation? Or are you referring to something di
by noneeeed 4y ago
Is that not just regional accents? Don't most countries with a reasonably sized population have differences in punctuation? Or are you referring to something different?
As an English person, there are parts of my own country where it will take me a bit of time to get my ear tuned to the local accent and dialect (just this evening my wife's mother, from south yorkshire, used a word I'd never heard). But I was under the impression this is pretty common, at least across Europe. I've heard French people complaining about how people from some other part of France speak, the same for Germany. Is Finnish unusual in having a more homogeneous pronunciation?
I'm not being defensive or anything, this is a genuine question. As someone who struggled to spell at school I'm well aware of what a mess English is.
- CRConrad 4y ago> Is Finnish unusual in having a more homogeneous pronunciation? AFAICS, I'd say yes, it is. There are some dialects (way up north, and in the East) where stuff is pronounced differently, but that's so hilariously different that I think speakers of those dialects are themselves fully aware that the way they pronounce stuff, it oughta be spelled differently. And conversely, what with only the "official" spelling being taught in school, they automatically learn the "correct" nationwide pronunciation from that -- thanks to the "everything is spelled as it's pronounced, and vice versa" phenomenon.
- noneeeed 4y agoThat’s really interesting, thanks for explaining. I find it fascinating how differently languages have developed.