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PAULH
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| Iwantmyrightsnow wrote: |
| [Wouldn't it be possible to speak with say a Scottish or Liverpudlian accent and not be speaking in dialect? My best mates do when they are talking with me but when I see them with people from home they switch back to the dialect. |
This is only a guess, but an accent refers to the way a person from a particular country speaks.e.g. a Canadian accent, an British accent while a dialect refers to a particular region of that country. Im sure in Canada you get Vancouverism, Quebecois, Torontoite English. In Australia there are four types of Australian English. (Broad, General and two others, one sounds like British English and is found in Victoria)
In Dunedin in New Zealand people speak with a Scottish dialect than the rest of the country. In England you get Geordie and Liverpool and Manchester dialects You friend may speak Liverpudlian to you but it will sound like Greek to you when you hear him speaking to his mates back home.
Call them accents if you want, but I think a regional dialect is the correct term. |
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Iwantmyrightsnow
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| PAULH wrote: |
| Iwantmyrightsnow wrote: |
| [Wouldn't it be possible to speak with say a Scottish or Liverpudlian accent and not be speaking in dialect? My best mates do when they are talking with me but when I see them with people from home they switch back to the dialect. |
This is only a guess, but an accent refers to the way a person from a particular country speaks.e.g. a Canadian accent, an British accent while a dialect refers to a particular region of that country. Im sure in Canada you get Vancouverism, Quebecois, Torontoite English. In Australia there are four types of Australian English. (Broad, General and two others, one sounds like British English and is found in Victoria)
In Dunedin in New Zealand people speak with a Scottish dialect than the rest of the country. In England you get Geordie and Liverpool and Manchester dialects You friend may speak Liverpudlian to you but it will sound like Greek to you when you hear him speaking to his mates back home.
Call them accents if you want, but I think a regional dialect is the correct term. |
Fair enough......But until now I had always presumed dialect included specific speech patterns and vocab. Anyone got the time or inclination to check and confirm what is correct. But not so important I guess. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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Try this for fun?
want to know what Dave's would look like if written by a redneck or Elmer Fudd?
http://rinkworks.com/dialect/ |
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Iwantmyrightsnow
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Funny but seriously sad. Weall need to get a real life and get off the internet - spend time with the kids, talk with out partners, read a book, even watch desperate Housewives....oh i do that already. God I just went 4 months without a computer. I shouldn't have gotten another one! May my posting decrease from tonight! |
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Brooks
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| yeah that was a good website. |
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