#dialects — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dialects, aggregated by home.social.
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Eight British And Irish Accent Maps | Map Of British English Dialects
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https://starkeycomics.com/2024/05/10/eight-british-and-irish-accent-maps/ <-- shared technical article
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https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11642588 <-- shared media article
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H/T @Milan Janosov
[as a kiwi, and after seeing the ‘scone’ pronunciation in particular, I do wonder how this might translate down to the antipodes; as a barman working in London in my (much) younger days – because we all do! 😉 – hearing the huge variety of accents from a relatively small country – but with a rich history of course – was glorious, still is to me! I am also curious how people trying to ‘not to be common’ & hence trying pretentiously to emulate the Received Pronunciation (RP) / BBC English – and failing - plays into this… Now say the letter “H” out loud, if you said “aitch" then that is you 😉 :* 😊 )
“Eight maps to show how the differences in how vowels are pronounced in Britain and Ireland… These are just some of the many, many regional differences in the complex and varied accents and dialects of these [British Isles]…”
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“… The diversity of English dialects in the United Kingdom is enormous.
It’s common for people from either side of a river, mountain, or even town to speak noticeably different ways, with particular features that immediately mark someone out as being from a specific area, to those who have an ear for it.
This is pretty normal in any large region that has been speaking a language continually for 1600 years. You will find the same thing in Germany, Norway, France, and countless other countries. Languages evolve over time, and physical distance between regions means that new features often spread slowly, leading to dialectal differences. Sometimes these differences are small, and only easily recognised by people from the relevant region. Other times there are very clear distinctions, with neighbouring dialects sounding almost like different languages to those unaccustomed to them...”
#map #mapping #spatial #Rhoticity #poorpour #horsehoarse #bathtrap #footstrut #goosefoot #fullfool #greatscone #UK #Britain #Ireland #pronunciation #linguistics #regional #variations #differences #vowels #language #English #England #accents #Northern #dialects
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Master linguist visits town with world’s most ‘perplexing’ accent and finally meets his match
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/perplexing-glaswegian-scottish-dialect-ex1/
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14 English words students learn differently if their teacher is American vs. British
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/14-american-versus-british-words-ex1/
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Humankind went from possibly speaking tens of thousands of different languages during a period spanning the first millennium B.C. and first millennium A.D. to just about 7,500 today, researchers have found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/28/world/society/study-decline-languages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #language #dialects #translation
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things.
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things. #AccentReduction #voice
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Re Telephone Whispers:
Bairisch = in Germany usually referring to "Central Bavarian"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_languageKölsch = dialects in the Archdiocese and former Electorate of #Cologne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colognian_dialectBadisch = specifically in this case "Niederalemannisch" (on map at top grouped under High/Highest Alemannic)
Sächsisch = dialect spoken in Saxony and in adjacent parts of southeastern Saxony-Anhalt and eastern Thuringia
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"Fun fact: Totalitarian systems often don't like #dialects. Those, who talk the same way, presumably think the same way."
"I have always known [switch to Bavarian accent]: When I talk the way I talk, that's anti-fascist practice."
Excellent episode w #Faltermeier about #German dialects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJboDB51PQMy #TelephoneWhispers:
Bairisch 0%
Kölsch 80%
Badisch 90%
Sächsisch 90%
Hochdeutsch 100%This one:
"For dictators.... no, you don't have to gender that term..." 😂 -
#ArtificialIntelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect: New study of #MainzUniversity finds that language models misinterpret words in regional varieties // #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #dialects #ComputationalLinguistics #dialect
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/05/19/artificial-intelligence-struggles-to-understand-the-mainz-dialect -
Artificial intelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect: New study of #MainzUniversity finds that language models misinterpret words in regional varieties 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/artificial-intelligence-struggles-to-understand-the-mainz-dialect/
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #dialects #ComputationalLinguistics #dialect
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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say
Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/660727/ -
There is a tiny stub of land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wirral) in England in which the people use a different word for a bread roll than the rest of the country (excepting Coventry, which is a hundred miles away). The UK's dialects can change literally from one street to the next.
https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/
#funfacts #UK #Britain #England #Merseyside #Liverpool #Wirral #language #dialects
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An illustration from Morris et al.'s book appears in @superlinguo's post at @stronglang about the easily confused "V for Victory" and "up yours" gestures:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/up-yours-the-gesture-that-divides-america-and-the-uk/ -
Funny dialectal trait in parts of the US: they have a diphtong or even triphtong in the word "but", pronouncing it BAH-et or BWAH-et. One of the guys on the excellent Common Descent podcast does this all the time.
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14 English words students learn differently if their teacher is American vs. British
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Oh, look! 🎥 Yet another earth-shattering #documentary about #Clojure, because the world was obviously desperate for more #Lisp #dialects in #film form. Can't wait to see how they turn parentheses into plot twists. 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk #ClojureCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
Working with an #acting #coaching client on an accent with material that lands so differently when more vowel substitutions are included. The entire feel of who their character is shifted. So cool to hear and see them explore those options. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #accents #dialects #voiceover
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A woman didn’t think she had an accent. A linguist proved her wrong with just one word.
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In Southern California the phrase "coffee shop" used to mean "diner", but now it means a place that you can lounge around in with espresso drinks. See e.g. the pictured sign: Jack's started up in 1933. Does anyone have any idea when this changed? I feel like it was sometime in the 90s but don't really know.
I'm also curious how widespread this usage was (or is, if it's still used anywhere). Just Southern California? All of California? Elsewhere?
#LosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #California #CoffeeShop #Diner #Localism #Dialects #Vernacular
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I might be a nitpick but there has always been one thing I can't audibly stand. I am not sure if it is regional, but when folks end something that is supposed to end in an “ING” with an een sound so "working" becomes "workeen" and "becoming" becomes be commeen." I hear it and it just grates on my nerves. Of course I don't say anything, however I inwardly cringe. I should not as it is unique. I'm curious as to where that speech pattern originates. Is it from an older dialect? Is it an old English thing?
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A CLASSIC | Arabic Swear Words, Curses and Bad Words: The Definitive List in Egyptian, Levantine & Other Arabic Dialects
WARNING: This article contains explicit Arabic swear words and curse words. It compiles a list of frequent insults across dialects like Egyptian and Levantine. While important for understanding, readers (especially non-natives) are strongly discouraged from using these terms. #Dialects #Egyptian Arabic #Translation https://yalla.li/6vpx0 -
Perplexing name for a plant-based sandwich. The beginning ‘Æ'’ is a dialectal (West Jutland) variant of the negation ‘ikke’ (‘not’). Perhaps, it was used for its similarity to the word ‘æg’ (‘egg’). The word ‘BAƆCON’ is a very weird spelling. I know that vegan alternatives often use modified spellings of what they are emulating, but nonsensical IPA symbols?
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JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-24-json-schema-demystified/
#HackerNews #JSONSchema #Demystified #Dialects #Vocabularies #Metaschemas
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AI language models show bias against regional German dialects: New study examines how artificial intelligence responds to dialect speech // #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #AI #ComputationalLinguistics #dialects #MainzUniversity
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/12/ai-language-models-show-bias-against-regional-german-dialects -
AI language models show bias against regional German dialects: New study examines how artificial intelligence responds to dialect speech 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/ai-language-models-show-bias-against-regional-german-dialects/
#ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #AI #ComputationalLinguistics #dialects