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re: How many different dialects would you say are in America?
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:36 pm to Paul Allen
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:36 pm to Paul Allen
the different accents and cultures passing through LSU have diluted any identifiable BR accent over the years.
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Posted on 4/28/14 at 11:19 pm to Mike da Tigah
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How many different dialects would you say are in America?
Henry Higgins say no fewer than 15,930,127.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 11:21 pm to Mike da Tigah
That map is wrong. Arizona and SoCal are the exact same but SoCal and NorCal are slightly different.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:43 am to lsu480
How so?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:50 am to Mike da Tigah
Does this really say that people in Houston (and maybe even Austin is in there)speak the same as people in Mississippi and Alabama?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:52 am to Mike da Tigah
certainly more than 25... cross the bridge into Brusly and you'll understand
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:06 am to Phil A Sheo
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certainly more than 25
Agreed. In this age of extreme geographic mobility, dialects are shifting and new dialects are being born.
Northwest Arkansas, specifically the Bentonville-Fayetteville are, is a prime example of this, as are places like Dallas and Atlanta. In NWA, you're essentially having a blend of born-and-bred Arkansans with deep Southern accents and transplants via the booming Walmart vendor community (almost all Fortune 100 companies have offices here), all of which has led to an amalgamation of a midwestern, Southern, and northern accent. Northwest Arkansas is really starting to develop its own dialect.
I was born and raised in Arkansas, yet everywhere I go around NWA, people always say "you don't sound like you're from around here."
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:07 am to Mike da Tigah
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That's true, but even in keeping with that, there are no less that three big differences in Louisiana from Scots Irish found in the rest of the South to Cajun French, and Creole French, but within both Creole French and Cajun French there are very noticeable differences that come from the various cultures that settled and immigrated the area of South Louisiana. Cajun French isn't even the same language from area to area. It varies quite a bit, and if you think there's little difference from a person from Mid City to a person in Chalmette, you really need to go visit the two to appreciate it.
His map is referencing different dialects of American English. Cajun and Creole French wouldn't fall under that umbrella.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:07 am to Mike da Tigah
Just from a Louisiana perspective, Nola people talk different from everyone else. There's another dialect for rural Louisiana. I think Baton Rouge people speak more like other southern areas.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:12 am to northshorebamaman
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I've spent most of my life between Norcal, WA state, and Utah, and I don't hear anything that makes those three, distinct dialects.
Norcal is certainly different than the rest of the west coast.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:13 am to usc6158
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I've spent most of my life between Norcal, WA state, and Utah, and I don't hear anything that makes those three, distinct dialects.
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Norcal is certainly different than the rest of the west coast.
I've never been to any of those areas. What, in your mind, makes them so different?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:17 am to usc6158
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Norcal is certainly different than the rest of the west coast.
Maybe to Socal, but I can't tell the difference between here and the Bay Area(unless you mean exaggerated Spicoli accents). Certainly not enough to call them completely separate dialects.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:25 am to GeauxColonels
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What, in your mind, makes them so different?
Different words that aren't really used anywhere else. Hella for example.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:32 am to usc6158
Do they not say hella in Socal? Because they use the hell out of it in the Bay Area.
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