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To: MCSP2008
I find the same dialect issues in German and Welsh. My German customers could tell I learned German from a teacher in Karlruhe. Most of my Welsh experience is via music from the mid-valleys. I did that on purpose as that is where my family originated. The northern and southern dialects differ from the mid-valleys. Differences are more pronounced in colloquial usage. The formal, modern written form of Welsh is pretty standard...but nobody speaks in that manner.
52 posted on 05/27/2012 3:19:34 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Salve

Yes, friend is like, if New Yorker will stop in Boston, they will know he’s from NYC, or if Bostonian stops in Austin TX they will know who he or she is. This is normal.

In language though, rules of grammar are in effect.

Same with matric system. Try to drive to gas station in Rio and say I would like 5 gallons for super - response will be like Que?

Now if you say I want 16 liters of regular, you will get gas and save yourself from headache.

All soldiers are learned in 00:00:00 hundred clock, as 14:00 automatically you will know is 2 P.M in American standard, but that is not use, only sometimes. So is with dialects, but language structure is same.

Merci


54 posted on 05/28/2012 1:55:01 PM PDT by MCSP2008 (Romanian native > ESL)
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