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"You will find the same thing in [...] France". Actually, you don't. Strong regional accents are pretty rare compared to the UK or Germany
by pyb 1y ago
"You will find the same thing in [...] France".
Actually, you don't. Strong regional accents are pretty rare compared to the UK or Germany
- rjsw 1y agoWhat about Ch'ti [1] or Savoyard? The article is about dialects not accents. Even just considering French accents, I find the Marseille one distinctive. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language
- pyb 1y agoThere are a couple of light accents in France (Toulouse,Marseille) but not many. Stronger accents are found outside France: Quebec, Africa...
- sevensor 1y agoNot unrelated to a longstanding policy of suppressing regional languages: > Depuis plus de deux siècles, les pouvoirs politiques ont combattu les langues régionales https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France
- pyb 1y agoExactly. My grandfather was punished in school whenever he spoke Breton
- auxbuss 1y agoYears ago, I went to live and work in Strasbourg. My French was… rudimentary, school-level, but after a few weeks I was picking up the rhythm and following along. Then the grand chef came up from Paris. During the night out entertaining him, I asked him to slow down a bit as I was struggling with his accent. He completely lost it, insulting the locals as peasants, and claiming the accent was theirs not his. Kind of put a damper on the evening. Obviously the Marseille “dialect” is recognisable, but otherwise, travelling throughout France, and even the French-speaking parts of Switzerland, I could understand folk.