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Unusually sencible question about accents

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

We all know english has many regional accents in most english speaking parts if the world

Be it uk us or down under

Byt do other languages have as many diffent accents or are we unuque in our craziness

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

They do in the USA, think of the Deep South accent compared with a New York accent. They’re totally different.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

americans have a varying accent too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Course they do! Scotland and Wales have loads of variant accents too, USA as well. You're not unique at all I'm afraid PMF

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"They do in the USA, think of the Deep South accent compared with a New York accent. They’re totally different."
yes i said us do as they speak english but any other languages

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Course they do! Scotland and Wales have loads of variant accents too, USA as well. You're not unique at all I'm afraid PMF "

Haha need to get yasel up north! More accents than folk have had hot dinners

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m not sure there is another place on the planet with as many different accents in such a small area. And where do accents stop and new ones start, is there a distinct line, or is it a gradual blending into another accent ?!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Other languages come on folks read it

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Our city has its own differing accents.

Within a 20 mile radius it differs so much, I always thought it was unique.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I moved back from France my French teacher (Parienne) told me I couldn't speak French as I had a Normandy accent! Her exact words were 'it's like saying someone from Birmingham speaks English... they don't!'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I’m not sure there is another place on the planet with as many different accents in such a small area. And where do accents stop and new ones start, is there a distinct line, or is it a gradual blending into another accent ?!"

Haha honestly it’s mad! Accents vary from town town and even the small villages around! I live in the ribble valley and every one sounds different

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"americans have a varying accent too"

But it’s a much bigger area, my next door neighbour speaks in a different accent to me, but he is Polish so that explains that.

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By *ittlesub4uWoman
over a year ago

Manchester

Someone from down south blocked me this morning because I called them “chuck”. I’ll have to remember my UK wide terms of endearment next time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Other languages come on folks read it "

Australia

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I know its early but of corse i know the english language has many variants im tslking about

German french italian japanese

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Someone from down south blocked me this morning because I called them “chuck”. I’ll have to remember my UK wide terms of endearment next time "

Maybe they thought you were finishing with them.

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton


"When I moved back from France my French teacher (Parienne) told me I couldn't speak French as I had a Normandy accent! Her exact words were 'it's like saying someone from Birmingham speaks English... they don't!'"

Hahaha great quote! I’m from Birmingham so I need to find out what language I speak. I’m with Thomas Shelby on that one!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We all know english has many regional accents in most english speaking parts if the world

Be it uk us or down under

Byt do other languages have as many diffent accents or are we unuque in our craziness "

Apparently China has accent variations.

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By *ittlesub4uWoman
over a year ago

Manchester


"Maybe they thought you were finishing with them. "

And we’d had such a great thing going as well!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Maybe they thought you were finishing with them.

And we’d had such a great thing going as well! "

Fuck or chuck?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The yam yam accent is the closest to old English dialect.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The yam yam accent is the closest to old English dialect. "
theres a reason the past is the past

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I’m not sure there is another place on the planet with as many different accents in such a small area. And where do accents stop and new ones start, is there a distinct line, or is it a gradual blending into another accent ?!"

Definitely Blending gradually. From central Manchester to Bury is less than 10 miles and the difference is massive but half way you’ll get something like me. I slip between man/Lancashire using different words and sayings all the time. As these are the type of people I talk to that have influenced me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Maybe they thought you were finishing with them.

And we’d had such a great thing going as well! "

That’s Southerners for you.

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By *hoenixAdAstraWoman
over a year ago

Hiding in the shadows

I'm originally from the Midlands.

My family are spread over Derbyshire, Notts & Yorkshire.

Not one of us has the same accent.

I can't even understand my cousin on the phone, we have to video call or we spend the whole chat saying "What?"

We may need a translator tomorrow, when 20 of us all get together!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Yes,OP, other languages have regional dialects too.

In general, you will find that the changes in English are replicated in other languages too... softer accents, dropped consonants, uncouth rasps.

Google should give more information (and will definitely read the question better )

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's loads of Spanish dialects.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's quite normal OP. In fact accent has been found to change (albeit subtly) every 15-20 miles or so. Then there are variations in how language is used and regionally different words. Nothing crazy about it, just part of being human and living on a diverse planet!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There’s a massive difference between the accents of Scousers and Wools despite there being less than a couple of miles in some instances.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was in Parma and they speak Italian with a heavy French influence due to the Napoleonic invasion of the region.

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By *mm and HerCouple
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

Yes, nearly all languages do - French, German, Spanish and Italian all do. Remember Italy only became a country 150 years or so ago.

What's curious to me is the commonality and then the random differences. A Norwegian can understand Swedish and Danish (but Danes can't speak Norwegian very well) yet Finnish is only similar to Hungarian despite being "next door".

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL


"I’m not sure there is another place on the planet with as many different accents in such a small area. And where do accents stop and new ones start, is there a distinct line, or is it a gradual blending into another accent ?!"

I thinks it's probably gradual blending.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Every language has regional accents. Russian not so much apparently according to a colleague from Kazakhstan.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Hmmmmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm from Slovakia and yes we also have different accents in different areas of the country.

Kitten

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How many times do you see an Italian or french tourist in England trying to speak English with ‘our’ accent. Yet, when I speak Spanish I try my best to sound like a Gringo?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think all languages under the sun come with regional accents as well as regional linguistic idiosyncrasies.

I speak 4 languages and that’s the case with all of them.

Logic tells me that that specific human trait is very unlikely to be unique to a particular region of the globe.

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