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Post by Picap on Jan 30, 2020 6:22:32 GMT
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Post by Bob on Jan 30, 2020 15:51:05 GMT
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Post by Bob on Jan 31, 2020 12:20:31 GMT
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Post by dawnofthenewathens on Feb 2, 2020 14:20:14 GMT
dawnofthenewathens I love that advert. It's a similar situation in Britain. We have so many differing accents and dialects that communication can be a problem. I'm from the northwest with parents from the northeast and I genuinely struggle to understand Londoners sometimes - pronouncing l as w and th as f so 'thrill' sounds like 'friw'. I can sometimes understand Americans better!! I can imagine. There is a suprising number of dialects inside this tiny country. But they are disappearing sadly. Media and people moving around the country have pushed rigsdansk (standard Danish). Nowadays, young people only have traces of dialects, maybe a few words or so that set them apart. I'm sad about this, because I like a diversity of dialects, even if it makes communication more difficult. Interestingly, the situation is less severe in Germany. The dialects are less pronounced than they were a few decades ago, but many are very much alive. There are still people who absolutely cannot speak High German. I had teacher who moved to the Southwestern part of Germany in 2005 and she said that for at least a month she struggled to understand the people around her, because they all spoke the local Swabian dialect.
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Post by Picap on Feb 3, 2020 0:47:00 GMT
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Post by Picap on Feb 4, 2020 10:40:15 GMT
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Post by Picap on Feb 4, 2020 11:23:35 GMT
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Post by Bob on Feb 4, 2020 14:40:35 GMT
Behind the scenes is now up on Youtube.
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