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13 Apr 2011, 5:03 pm
13 Apr 2011, 5:05 pm
Yes, but I meant which language has the most dialect, not which country. Some languages are spoken in many countries. 
I'm aware that I then abandoned my own logic, and went on to bring continents into the question, i.e. groups of countries rather than languages...
Doh! My brain doesn't make sense sometimes. Sorry. 
13 Apr 2011, 5:09 pm
Just randomly musing to myself, but since all Indo-European family languages descend from Proto-Indo-European - I guess technically you could say Proto-Indo-European has the most dialects 
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13 Apr 2011, 5:40 pm
13 Apr 2011, 5:56 pm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws70oI3yMBc[/youtube]
"Ingrediment".
She's funny.I won't post anything on mine, you can hear it in any movie or TV show from the US.
Bloodheart, I love the Geordie dialect.
Ross Noble is great on QI. 
She was actually a He..the late comedian Rap Reiplinger,here's another one..hehehe
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJg8ICcjVH4[/youtube]
when I was Scotland I couldn't make out anything anyone ever said.They had to repeat it many times and even write it down.
It was worse in Brittany;I don't speak French but understand a lot phonetically but...very lost indeed.At least I understood crepes d' sirop d' erable to make an order of the fantastic crepes.
13 Apr 2011, 6:01 pm
This is a link to another comical view of the part that dialects (and accents) play in our lives.
How would you feel if you were in a lift (elevator in US dialect 
) that relied on Voice Recognition technology to go up or down,or more importantly to open the doors - and it couldn't understand you ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iNtOWLS7aY&feature=player_detailpage
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13 Apr 2011, 6:06 pm
The local dialect/accent makes me cringe. Please know that I do not speak like this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhMWk1X6vf0[/youtube]
I couldn't find a video with really good examples of the dialect. Mostly all I could find was people making fun of it and not speaking it correctly.
13 Apr 2011, 6:10 pm
How would you feel if you were in a lift (elevator in US dialect
) that relied on Voice Recognition technology to go up or down,or more importantly to open the doors - and it couldn't understand you ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iNtOWLS7aY&feature=player_detailpage
LOL LOL that was great.
The poor lift doesn't even know it's a lift.
It thinks it's an "elevator."
13 Apr 2011, 6:13 pm
13 Apr 2011, 6:41 pm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws70oI3yMBc[/youtube]
"Ingrediment".
She's funny.I won't post anything on mine, you can hear it in any movie or TV show from the US.
Bloodheart, I love the Geordie dialect.
Ross Noble is great on QI. She was actually a He..the late comedian Rap Reiplinger,here's another one..hehehe. It was worse in Brittany;I don't speak French but understand a lot phonetically but...very lost indeed.At least I understood crepes d' sirop d' erable to make an order of the fantastic crepes.
Yeah, I thought it might be a man, but I wasn't quite positive.
You should've learned some Breton when you went there.
