#dialect variation

[i-need-an-egress]

I got polls so now it's time to do dialect stuff! Add in the tags your answer and where you're from! And remember, no right or wrong answers since there's literally no reason to call this any of these over the others, language is arbitrary but also rad as hell.

[lolliepops-rox]

Inspired heavily but this video

Thinking about the difference in accent and sound between France's French and Canadian French.

Francis: hello my dear child how are you, I know I've been away a while but I'm here to visit

Matt: -speaks french Canadian-

Francis: what the fuck did you do to my beautiful language???

Obviously Arthur is basically fluent in French. That's his girlfriend/ex-wife/husband/ex-boyfriend. Also he's been invaded by France so many times. (Fun fact about a third of English words are actually stolen from French). So I love the idea that Francis finds it easier to talk to Arthur in French, then he does to speak to Matt in French.

Despite both knowing french, Matt and Arthur NEVER talk to each other in it, because Arthur just isn't actually fluent enough to translate Matt's accent & variations in his head

Francis & Matt: -having an argument in French in the living room-

Arthur: wait Matt can just you switch to english for a second, I need to check who's side I'm on

Two other videos about accents/language that I love and will ramble about in the tags

[arabic-langblr]

“Roasting” someone in Arabic

قَصْفُ جَبْهات

[Qaṣf jabhāt] 

Explanation : the word جَبهة (plural :  جبهات) in the military context means the frontlines and the word قصف means to strike or to hit with bombs or heavy weapons. The verb is قَصَفَ (or in levantine dialect : قَصِف)

This expression is used in different dialects to express the equivalent of “roasting someone”, i.e criticising them heavily and giving them a very strong argument that’s diffiicult to rebunk. 

Note : the singular can be used, and the verb can also be modified according to the tense or speaker.

Example [with audio] : شُفتوا المُذِيعة كِيْف قَصْفَت جَبْهِتُه؟ |  šuftū kīf elmuḏīʿa qaṣfat ǧabhito? | Did you see how the news reporter roasted him?

[tovaicas]

anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

[un-pearable]

there is a degree to which the “using dude is misgendering” thing is an issue of cultural + linguistic regional variation not active malicious intent

[lucibell-writes]

It's slow going right now but the next installment of the Soft Veteran Boyfriends AU is currently at ~5,600 words. I'm thinking maybe... two or three more scenes? So probably another 6,000 words or so? (I know myself, y'all.) Tidbits in the tags!

[th3houseofleaves]

thinking abt dove and jason having similar ways of saying things + similar accents bc they grew up in the same area but the way they both sound is still rlly distinct and different.

bc dove grew up around their dad who wasn't originally from gotham & had a way different accent so dove picked that up and they have a weird mix of their dad's accent + a park row accent and it sounds rlly nice and fits their voice well if that makes sense.

and jason is the king of code switching fr. bc he normally has a very OBVIOUS accent it is CLEAR he grew up in park row but he's also rlly good at muting / hiding it depending on who he's around. he got rlly good at it when he first started going to school after bruce adopted him bc he was already getting picked on for different shit he figured it'd help if he sounded like he belonged. it kept him from getting judged too harshly at school and at events he'd go to with bruce. & that version of him + his accent is kind of his default when he's working (more so as robin, as red hood he falls somewhere in between both versions bc it helps he be taken seriously). if he's comfortable enough or tired enough or he just doesn't care he won't bother to hide it

[mishkakagehishka]

Yeah well now i wanna hear Shu speaking kansai.

[coulsonlives]

Seeing phrases like "bollocks" and "bloody hell" in a fanfic set in Brooklyn

[bywandandsword]

I have just learned that some northerners pronounce praline like "pray-leen" and I feel like I just took psychic damage

[idioticbat]

Does your language have a name?

The version on that post is called "ntsuqhathir" or [ⁿt͜sṳqʰa̤tʰi̤r̝], which just means "speech" or "saying tool" and comes from a verb meaning to say, to talk, to speak. It is the oldest language of its family, so it's a proto-language of sorts, and there are four other major language families that descend from it.

[businesstiramisu]

If you check the notes on that "kitty cone"/"puppy cone" poll it's a joke poll from a furry roleplay blog

(context)

ah, thanks! I usually think of myself as pretty diligent about following up on checking notes/googling things when i'm confused on here, but evidence that i could be doing better

OP deleted the poll but put up an explanation of the joke here

[bluemanedhawk]

Do they make extra-sticky headphones for headbangers?

[foreignobjecticus]

But actually please do get me started on cheerios because they're also cocktail franks and cocktail sausages and party sausages and mini hotdogs. But then there's puffy dogs which are made with them and pigs in blankets which are also sausage rolls (not if they're made with twiggy sticks) but depending on where I am and who in speaking to, they're NOT, and AAAAAAAAA

But none of them are weiners because that's just ridiculous.

[flyteitout]

THE DIALECT GAME

My best friend and I have invented a dumb game. It has very simple rules that amuse us immensely:

1) Put on a Minnesota dialect (the more stereotyped, the better)

2) Say ridiculous shit

3) Whoever laughs first, loses

This game built up organically over many many years, and it has its own canon now. For example, Marge—who died fifteen years ago—is a stand-in name for any adulterer in Minnesotatown, MN. The Hendersons have never made a bad casserole, but the Bradshaws—who come from across the water, doncha know, on the Wisconsin side of things—well, they’ve never yet made an edible one. But they do try hard, bless them.

So the game has recently evolved now to inventing the most pithy advice/metaphors/sayings/platitudes that are absolute nonsense but—when said in the appropriate dialect—could feasibly be advice/etc given by an elder Minnesotan.

I honestly just wanted to created this post to keep track of the best ones.

*****

—“Gary fixed the problem and I turned to Mary and I said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s a man who goes up north in the winter’”

*****

—“Sammy missed his bus, so he’s going to be late.”

“That boy’d pack a raft instead of a hut to go ice fishing.”

*****

—“Don’t bring your moosin’ rifle to the icin’ hole.”

[vyragosa]

WAIT..............................WAIT.....................WHY IS IT CLICKING ONLY NOW..............................................ENGLERT IS A FUCKING COMPOSITE OF ANGEL???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU TELLING ME HIGGS BEING OBSESSED WITH PROTECTING ANGELS IS, BECAUSE, oh.................................................................................