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Re:Civic honesty around the globe by kurthr on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:11PM (#36636892)
Hmm, is this why there are subtitles on reality TV shows based in the south? Suburbia is fairly uniform, but not so much the urban or rural areas.

I would expect culture shock between NY and Dallas, Seattle and Atlanta, much less Salt Lake and Boston. I can get Cajun drawl, but not Southie without a fair bit (not quite Glasgow levels) of concentration.

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Re:Civic honesty around the globe by avgcorrection on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:22PM (#36637027)
> Hmm, is this why there are subtitles on reality TV shows based in the south?

There are (sometimes, rarely) subtitles on Norwegian TV for Norwegian dialects. Doesn’t make it diverse (homogeneous as Americans like to say).

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Re:Civic honesty around the globe by kurthr on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:42PM (#36637312)
You should visit. A dialect that millions of people speak separated by thousands of km, income, and livelihood is not equivalent to the language difference between Swiss Cantons, it's closer to the difference between Lombardi and Napoli. Just look at the driving, forget language.
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