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 Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:51 am
Inspired by something in one of the threads on the main page, have you got anything to share about different dialects of English? Some anecdotes or misunderstandings?
One difference that took me a few moments to react to was "thongs". In Australia, they mean "flip-flops". It was an awkward moment when my sister told me she was wearing thongs... xd
It was also an embarrassing situation in primary school when I was asked what I wanted to 'lark', which means 'play' in Yorkshire. I had no idea, having lived in the South of England, and the kids were all trying to get their point across.. sweatdrop
I'm sure there are some more examples, but I should be doing my homework.. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:13 am
Just realised there was another thread in the main guild forum about the same topic. Should someone lock this one?
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:35 am
Dus tha wanna lark aboot today kiddah? or does tha wanna av a kip on told sofie?
Translation from Yorkshire to English xD
Do you want to play about today kid? or do you want to have a nap on the old sofa.
XD
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:47 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahnics * Fer = an intensifier. the longer the word following "fer" the more intense.
Ie: "That blouse is fer cuuute!."
Translation: "That blouse is cute"
* Sluff [ General American= "Ditch School" or "Play Hookey"]
Ie: We sluffed algebra to go ski'en
Translation: "We decided not to attend our algebra class instead, we went skiing."
Probably- Probly or Prolly
Our is pronunced like the word "Are"
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:03 am
lol..my favorite in the East US is the word "Water Ice"...which they dont really know out west and down south...you get looks down there when you say it...cus water ice is like...an oxymoron lol
philadelphia regional accent..greatest thing ever!
Wooder - water
Are-ange - orange
and just the general "youz guys" lol
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:51 pm
Oh my goodness, i hate how they sound in Yorkshire x3
My fiancee is from England, he lived in Peterboro in East Anglia until he was 13, then he moved to South Yorkshire...they sound so weird =/
As for me, i live in the south - and have always lived here.
So i use a twang when i talk.
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:37 am
Koko.Dk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahnics * Fer = an intensifier. the longer the word following "fer" the more intense.
Ie: "That blouse is fer cuuute!."
Translation: "That blouse is cute"
My computer teacher, in seventh grade, she always used to say 'lorry' instead of 'truck'- and she wasn't even from the UK... She thought it was clever because her name is Laurie.
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:42 pm
As i said in the "Language vs. Dialect" thread in the Linguistics subforum: "Before this discussion continues, let me say: "A dialect is distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation (phonology, including prosody). Where a distinction can be made only in terms of pronunciation, the term accent is appropriate, not dialect (although in common usage, "dialect" and "accent" are usually synonymous)." from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DialectA dialect is a language that, in comparison to the Modern-Standard version of its language of origin, is considered gramatically incorrect. What was said about "dialects of english" (British, Australian, New Yorker, New Englander) by Xiegrich is not applicable because British, Australian, and American English are not dialects, they are accents. Furthermore, New Englander, New Yorker, etc, are not dialects either, they are accents. of course, i am generalizing, because there are many people that also use grammatically incorrect speech. although, any slang/dialect that is used is standard throughout the US, meaning that if you took someone from the streets of New Haven, CT, and put them in same room as someone from the streets of South-Central Los Angeles (a.k.a. Compton) their slang would be mutually intelligible; whereas if you put someone from Naples and someone from Calabria in the same room, one wouldnt have a clue of what the other is saying however, back to accents, here in New England, we say orange (or-anj), but in New York, they say (awr-anj, "aw" is in "claw"). " my point in saying this is that what we speak are not dialects, they are accents, even though there are some vocabulary differences, British, Australian, and American English are all gramatically correct as determinded by the Modern-Standard of each
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:16 pm
'Rubber' over here meaning 'eraser' and meaning 'condom' over in the US always gets me x'D
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:49 pm
Well, in Texas, there are such a large amount of different dialects/accents even a movement 100 or 200 miles is a completely different set of vocabulary.
For example I used to live in the Rio Grande Valley and a hair tie is called a "Liga" which means rope in spanish, however in the upper san antonio-austin area it is called a chongo. To me this is just baffling.
And yes, we do use ya'll and all ya'll. Or at least I do. : /
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:15 am
South - What'r y'alllll errppp too? Boston area - Oiiii woaaant some woater. Michigan - Blahblahblahblahblah! (We speak very fast! XD)
Hm... What else? Oh! England! "Why, if I do dare say so, I find that the jolly-good farm boy with the Yankee accent is simply delightful, wouldn't you say so, Johnny ol' chap?"
Australian! Crickey! There was once a cricket that yanked a bunny from it's tree with the kangaroo!
:]
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:32 am
Nyxiaus` Well, in Texas, there are such a large amount of different dialects/accents even a movement 100 or 200 miles is a completely different set of vocabulary. For example I used to live in the Rio Grande Valley and a hair tie is called a "Liga" which means rope in spanish, however in the upper san antonio-austin area it is called a chongo. To me this is just baffling. And yes, we do use ya'll and all ya'll. Or at least I do. : / Ugh, I hate that word! (and it's written y'all, not ya'll, contraction of 'you all'). I used to say it a lot when I was younger, then I realized how much I sounded like a hick because of it, so I taught myself to stop. My mom still talks that way though... rolleyes I'm still working on saying 'for' and not 'fer.' In my opinion though, people where I live (Houston area) don't have such a bad accent, at least not as bad as those in Alabama...and Georgia...and Mississippi. And the only nice sounding accent in Louisiana is the cajun one. 3nodding My great-uncle had that accent, and I loved listening to him talk. Other accents I adore: German, English, Czech, Cuban...there's more, but my head hurts and I don't feel like thinking that hard. sweatdrop Dislike: Pretty much any American accent...they all suck.
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:37 pm
Okay....how do we speak in SoCal....hmm.
Well we say "dude" a lot down here. At least I do anyway....a lot of alternative cultures use it, started in the surfer scene I believe. Oh we also use "awesome" a lot. We have a lot of words to describe things that are "cool", and "cool" can mean different things in different situations. xd
We enunciate our r's and don't really slur anything, and use Spanish words and commands.
There are a bunch of different dialects down here because it's so diverse, so I can't really tell you about all of them.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:15 pm
In Southeast USA we (as in old people and me) use the word "ray'dn" alot and I did NOT know it was short for the word "reckon" until someone said so a few days ago. Ejemplo:
"I ray'dn she left yesterday"
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:43 pm
e r i s e d y m Ugh, I hate that word! (and it's written y'all, not ya'll, contraction of 'you all'). I used to say it a lot when I was younger, then I realized how much I sounded like a hick because of it, so I taught myself to stop. My mom still talks that way though... rolleyes I'm still working on saying 'for' and not 'fer.' In my opinion though, people where I live (Houston area) don't have such a bad accent, at least not as bad as those in Alabama...and Georgia...and Mississippi. And the only nice sounding accent in Louisiana is the cajun one. 3nodding My great-uncle had that accent, and I loved listening to him talk. Other accents I adore: German, English, Czech, Cuban...there's more, but my head hurts and I don't feel like thinking that hard. sweatdrop Dislike: Pretty much any American accent...they all suck. I like southern accents. I find them soothing. My grandmother always used expressions that I'd never heard anywhere else. She always used 'red-up' for clean (which I recently learned is British), and she always said, "I'll put the quietus to 'em!" We were all surprised when we found out that 'quietus' is a real word. xd
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