Pilgrimage for increasing Essence

[Kremlin KOA]

it is interesting to note that there is less difference between italian and latin than there is between some of those dialects

 

[DarkProphet]

"Are you here for the summer?" comes out "Durraah heah furtha summah?"  Down East in Maine. It's not a seperate language, it's just a dialect.  

To paraphrase Bob Marley.  'anything past bangor and it's like fucking voodoo'


I've always been fond of seeing some of the older gents make "How're you doing, there, boy?" come out as a single word, two, maybe three at most.


generally comes out: "owyadunethayboy?" or some such.


We Mainers who live near the NH border suffer from corruption of our maine dialect.  We're so close to NH that we've begun to lose our accent.  It's a sad, sad thing.

 

[Jakk Bey]

DP--And Maine has a couple of versions of their dialect.


There's a regular Maine accent. There's Down East.  Then there's "Skiddah Taahk" up North, and it gets just weeahd

 

[Flagg]

Reminds me of the "Skinheads from Maine" skit on the Dana Carvey Show:


"Whatya whittlin' there, Paul?"


"Oh, it jus' a hate-stick for beatin' on the queeahs."

 

[Jukashi]

I've always been amused by the insistence of other countries that there is an "Irish" accent. There's no such thing. There's a Dublin accent and a Cork accent and a Donegal accent and a bunch of others besides, and many of them sound completely different. And of course, Irish itself- the actual language- also has different accents of its own.


But I think the different "celtic" languages- irish, welsh, breton, scots and so on- are pretty good examples of languages that are not far past being dialects of each other. They are different, but they sound very similar (written, though, is completely different) and it's dimly possible for a speaker (a good speaker... not like me...) of one to vaguely understand another.

 

[Jakk Bey]

The whole of the British Isles are good examples of langauges in isolation, and then introduced to a sort of "common" tongue--which English really is.  A screwed up Germanic that got the crap kicked out of it by the Welsh, the Irish, Scots, French, and influenced by Latin.


Then again, for how long did the Brits have Kings who didn't even speak English?