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Iâm sorry, but that is an incredibly anglocentric view. Itâs exactly the same in Germany (I could even tell if someone in my class was catholic or protestant by their accent). Itâs also the same in Norway. I am sure itâs the same in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries I have no direct experience of. Probably also on other continents but I can really only speak for Europe with any confidence.
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Definitely Italy, each town has its own dialect, heck, they were only 10KM apart, but the town i lived, and the other I worked in, their dialects were different enough to almost not be comprehensible to one another (they were definitely near incomprehensible to me).
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Then I agree with your statement that
unless we are talking about somewhere like Liechtenstein or Monaco
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Or Iceland. There are Icelandic accents but only really two or three.
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Sorry, mix up with the reply system. I used a reply to your post as a template to reply to the_bordererâs post (because that was in a closed thread that didnât have quote functionality anymore). I changed out the username, reference number of the thread and of the post but it still registered as a reply to you somehowâŚ
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I think English speaking people outside America are just, only now, beginning to realise that there are American accents beyond âthe Southâ, new York, and West coast. Iâm sure there are huge variations in single states and that we just canât hear it
Iâm sure also, that in part this is due to underlying differences in the English and non English speakers who colonised the places. You can hear or read differences in dialect in Ireland depending on underlying Irish/Scots/English influences.
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In least-surprising follow-up newsâŚ.
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You perceive âNew Yorkâ as one accent?
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You could drill this down as low as you like.
âYou perceive New York is one accent?â
âYou think Queens is one accent?â
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âYou think the stretch of 167th Street between 82nd and the parkway is one accent?â
(Everyone knows that the closer you get to 82nd, the more pronounced the use of a voiceless alveolar fricative becomes, no pun intended).
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Bitcoin doomed as a payment system and its novelty will fade, says Federal Reserve Board of Governors member
The United States doesnât need a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because such a thing will not notably improve the nationâs financial system. And also, the US dollar isnât threatened by digital currencies nor other nationsâ CBDCs, so whatâs the point?
So said Randal K Quarles, a member of the US Federal Reserveâs Board of Governors and its Vice Chair for Supervision, in a speech delivered on Monday to the 113th Annual Utah Bankers Association Convention.
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No more than I do Dublin. I just think there are a lot of generic âAmericanâ accents in non American produced media.
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More convictions for war crimes in the Bosnian warâŚ
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Ugh - another case of leniency for the rich and famous. Her victims deserved better than this, based on reports about her level of cooperation and wording of her apology:
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Well, that was quick.
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