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English is weird
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 08 Jan 2021, 07:40 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Jan 2021, 01:43 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 06 Jan 2021, 11:15 ---Hell, even within those different regions are mutually unintelligible dialects.
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And at least two of them have regions of snoots who insist anyone who doesn't talk like them must be stupid.
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And regions where if you don't talk like them, they think you must be a uppity, snobbish wanker.
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I've been on both ends of both of these.
Part of the fun of being from the central part of the nation, and thusly being northern to the southerners and southern to the northerners.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 11 Jan 2021, 13:56 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 08 Jan 2021, 07:40 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Jan 2021, 01:43 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 06 Jan 2021, 11:15 ---Hell, even within those different regions are mutually unintelligible dialects.
--- End quote ---
And at least two of them have regions of snoots who insist anyone who doesn't talk like them must be stupid.
--- End quote ---
And regions where if you don't talk like them, they think you must be a uppity, snobbish wanker.
--- End quote ---
I've been on both ends of both of these.
Part of the fun of being from the central part of the nation, and thusly being northern to the southerners and southern to the northerners.
--- End quote ---
Hell, there's parts of the far west that consider us 'Southern' despite having the contiguous center in our state.
jwhouk:
Stolen from another forum:
Tova:
So, this depends on what you mean by weird...
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 11 Jan 2021, 13:56 ---<snip>
I've been on both ends of both of these.
Part of the fun of being from the central part of the nation, and thusly being northern to the southerners and southern to the northerners.
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Liar. The Midlands don't exist.
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