Hi :) I still hear a lot of differences in even very common phrases used in different areas of the US. I think it's inevitable whenever people group together in any way. The media seems to average things out a bit but it's more like a trading language that doesn't really belong to anywhere and isn't really anyone's "native" language but is added to be all sorts and then made instantly bland. Baltimore sounds different from other places, even phrases are different. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2013, 1:16 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language? > > >On 07/31/2013 03:50 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> >/snip/ >> >> In England we have a lot of different types of 'English' some of which are >> completely incomprehensible to an outsider living as far as 30miles away. >> None of my family ever understood my Gran for example, but she was always >> there offering cups of tea with a rock-hard scone or porridge only slightly >> less runny than cement (actually it was all good stuff really but don't tell >> her that). In the case of cockney that was a deliberate attempt to avoid >> passing anything onto "the old bill" by accident. Liverpudlian and Geordie >> are perhaps due to different peoples having invaded us at different times >> and different kingdoms all over the place or different tribes claiming >> different parts. I'm sure it's much the same in any other country. >> >> Regards from >> Tom >Is this still true? I am aware that it was true in the past, but I would >have thought that with radio, TV and movies, that the local >dialects would have mostly disappeared. But what do I know. sitting >here on the other side of the pond, where dialects really have pretty >much disappeared. > >(55 years ago, when I was in the Air Force here, I ran into some boys >from the backwoods of Kentucky, and they spoke a dialect that was >reminiscent of what you read in Shakespeare. I'm pretty sure that's >all gone, now. We get news reports with interviews of the locals from >all over the US, and there's very little "drawl" even. Probably those >of us in New York or Boston have more of a unique accent today. Altho >there is a woman reading commercials on KSEY-FM, in Seymore, TX, who >really sounds hillbilly! [KSEY is accessible by the Net, and plays >classic country music.]) > >I ask this OT question because I have been interested in language >all my life, and I notice accents. And of course, if _you_ can't >understand some folks in Merry Olde, surely I couldn't! > >--doug > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
