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With modern communications/media, I'm not sure to what degree with have true dialects any longer. But I worked in Louisiana for a few years back in the day and
by ghaff 2y ago
With modern communications/media, I'm not sure to what degree with have true dialects any longer. But I worked in Louisiana for a few years back in the day and a friend of mine who grew up in Jacksonville told me to not feel bad because he often couldn't understand Cajun accents either.
I will run into people I know from northern England and some areas of Scotland at events and, especially in high noise environments like cocktail parties, I'm probably making out about half of what they say.
- tracker1 2y agoI'd say that's largely already happened and continues to. I know there's sometimes effort to give characters proper accents, but it's usually not too good. I did find it amusing to watch a show like Blue Bloods where they're all a local family, but all have different natural accents.
- ghaff 2y agoYou also have places like Boston with very sub-regional accents. Southie accents are not really pervasive nor are Beacon Hill Brahmin accents. And, as you suggest, many of the residents are from all over the place.
- jamiek88 2y agoIt's the same in my hometown, Liverpool. People from Bootle will have a different accent to people from Toxteth for example. 2 miles through a tunnel and you have the softer Scouse accent of the Wirral, the further from Birkenhead to Chester you get the less Scouse they sound. Head south on the M62 and the Manc accent slowly melts into the Scouse, starting at roughly the Runcorn area.
- munificent 2y agoA thick Cajun accent, which is relatively rare these days, is understandably difficult to make out: Their primary language isn't English at all. It's Cajun French. So they are a French speaker (with an uncommon French accent) speaking English.