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This article is about accents on letters (diacritics), not accents as in dialects. I found your post interesting neverthelesss.
by tacker2000 1y ago
This article is about accents on letters (diacritics), not accents as in dialects.
I found your post interesting neverthelesss.
- Luker88 1y agoIt is probably connected. Having so many different dialects (and full minor languages!) saying the same word slightly differently, Italians were forced to find (and use) a way to put the correct accent in writing. Other languages probably don't have the mind boggling number of dialects Italy has. GP was not exaggerating, it really changes every few kilometers. Like the article says: "situations like these are surprisingly few in English"
- lompad 1y agoGermany is similar. Especially in more rural areas, a couple villages away people are going to have a hard time understanding you. Though there's typically a common dialect variant everybody speaks, usually the one spoken by the largest city in the region. E.g. every middle-franconian understands Nuremberg franconian dialect and is able to talk in a way they would understand.
- yieldcrv 1y agoI'm American My ear has just gotten to the point of noticing German dialects, and spotting the quizzical looks of other German/Austrian/Swiss people in the group Fascinating. I feel like they had 1,000 years to resolve this
- fakedang 1y agoHeck, Swiss German is like this lol. My cofounder's wife, during a parents together at school, was "advised" by some of the mothers to not "hang around those" mothers because they're stranger folk. Turns out, they lived 1.5 miles away in the next village.
- jason-johnson 1y agowell, if you ignore the current country borders then "German" would encompass a large portion of Switzerland and the Netherlands. So, with that assumption, I would be surprised if Italian had more dialects than German.
- stavros 1y agoItalian script doesn't use diacritics, though, so it's not the same kind of accent as the article talks about.
- Luker88 1y agoItalian script most definitely requires diacritics. "è" (is) vs "e" (and) "pero" (pear tree) vs "però" (but) "perché" is the only correct one and "perche" and "perchè" do not exist and so many other examples.
- stavros 1y agoOh huh, I've forgotten more Italian than I thought, thanks for the correction!