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It’s hilarious that an English language website has so many enthusiasts for the regional differences of their favourite foreign languages while all pretending t
by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
It’s hilarious that an English language website has so many enthusiasts for the regional differences of their favourite foreign languages while all pretending that English is monolithic and consistent everywhere. Try driving around the north of England for an hour or two and see how many different words for bread roll you encounter. Baps, barm cakes, oven bottom muffins…
- lqet 2y agoIn my experience, people mostly tend to hyperbolize the differences between their local dialect and "everything else" for patriotic reasons. Usually, they give some singular words that are vastly different as examples (I suspect you can find such examples in most languages and most regions), and ignore that 99% of the vocabulary, plus the grammar and most daily sentence constructs, are equivalent (modulo the accent). A standard example in German is how the outermost bread slice is called, which differs completely from region to region, town to town, and sometimes even family to family [0]. [0] https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/10_03h.jpg https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/...