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I remember seeing a documentary of US origin which had interviews with Scots that were subtitled, despite the fact that they were speaking English (and as an Au

by caf 11y ago

I remember seeing a documentary of US origin which had interviews with Scots that were subtitled, despite the fact that they were speaking English (and as an Australian, perfectly intelligible to me). So I took that as some evidence that not all English dialects are mutually intelligible.

nkoren 11y ago
The first time I came to the UK, I remember sitting across from some rather loud Scots on the tube. I think they were talking about work; I wasn't sure, because the only word I could clearly understand was "fookin'" (an adjective which can apparently mean almost anything). Definitely not mutually intelligible to my California-trained ears.
- wink 11y ago
  There are always people with varying degrees of dialect usage. This fellow[0] is quite, but not totally unintelligible to my English-as-a-second-language ears and there are Scottish where you recognize their origin in the first sentence but still understand them 100%. Same with Bavaria, really. Most of us from Munich have a very light dialect that's really not that difficult compared to many people from the countryside. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLjsCCGnuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLjsCCGnuo edit: The Bavarian dialect also has quite a few grammatical quirks, whereas the Saxons just pronounce German very different, but the grammar is very standard.
CatsoCatsoCatso 11y ago
The show Trawlermen which was shown in the UK was subtitled for native audiences since the accents on some of the men were so thick & unintelligible (at least to my friends' & my own ears in S England). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawlermen_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawlermen_(TV_series) Edit: Further article on the subtitling and the reactions to it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5244738.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5244738.stm

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I remember seeing a documentary of US origin which had interviews with Scots that were subtitled, despite the fact that they were speaking English (and as an Au

by caf 11y ago

nkoren 11y ago
The first time I came to the UK, I remember sitting across from some rather loud Scots on the tube. I think they were talking about work; I wasn't sure, because the only word I could clearly understand was "fookin'" (an adjective which can apparently mean almost anything). Definitely not mutually intelligible to my California-trained ears.
- wink 11y ago
  There are always people with varying degrees of dialect usage. This fellow[0] is quite, but not totally unintelligible to my English-as-a-second-language ears and there are Scottish where you recognize their origin in the first sentence but still understand them 100%. Same with Bavaria, really. Most of us from Munich have a very light dialect that's really not that difficult compared to many people from the countryside. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLjsCCGnuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLjsCCGnuo edit: The Bavarian dialect also has quite a few grammatical quirks, whereas the Saxons just pronounce German very different, but the grammar is very standard.
CatsoCatsoCatso 11y ago
The show Trawlermen which was shown in the UK was subtitled for native audiences since the accents on some of the men were so thick & unintelligible (at least to my friends' & my own ears in S England). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawlermen_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawlermen_(TV_series) Edit: Further article on the subtitling and the reactions to it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5244738.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5244738.stm