Re:Why isn't 'American' a Language?
by nkoren on Thursday July 16, 2015 @05:39AM
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The first time I came to the UK, I remember sitting across from some rather loud Scots on the tube. I think they were talking about work; I wasn't sure, because the only word I could clearly understand was "fookin'" (an adjective which can apparently mean almost anything). Definitely not mutually intelligible to my California-trained ears.
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There are always people with varying degrees of dialect usage.
This fellow[0] is quite, but not totally unintelligible to my English-as-a-second-language ears and there are Scottish where you recognize their origin in the first sentence but still understand them 100%.
Same with Bavaria, really. Most of us from Munich have a very light dialect that's really not that difficult compared to many people from the countryside.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLjsCCGnuo
edit: The Bavarian dialect also has quite a few grammatical quirks, whereas the Saxons just pronounce German very different, but the grammar is very standard.