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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by DanBC on Sunday July 03, 2016 @04:17PM (#12027445)
Like, if we all spoke English?

glesga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xan2xU-ZFic

Irish "What's filim?" https://youtu.be/UJ1Akr-UBis?t=57s

Geordie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4TT3VtR8o

120 miles from Glasgow to Newcastle. 250 miles from Glasgow to Westport, Ireland.

Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by Symbiote on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:36PM (#12027721)
The British class system plus geography (I grew up in the Midlands and south) means it takes me a few minutes to understand anything at all of the Scottish clip, and a few seconds for the Geordie one. The Irish is no problem, but real (not mainstream tv) Irish would be.

But, in my experience, people speaking these dialects could communicate with someone from elsewhere easily. They're also less different than they would have been decades ago.