Subdeacon Joe Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 My brother recently spent some vacation time in Scotland and England. He says apparently Scottish English and Alabama English are totally separate languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 While I was deployed I found myself in a chow line with some Royal Fusiliers. When we spoke, we had a fine conversation, but when they talked among themselves, I could barely understand what they were saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." George Bernard Shaw You can throw the rest of the UK into that mix as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornery Cuss Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 "While I was deployed I found myself in a chow line with some Royal Fusiliers. When we spoke, we had a fine conversation, but when they talked among themselves, I could barely understand what they were saying." I never thought Australian accents were very difficult to understand, hearing them in movies and occasionally in person here in the States. However, my wife and I were in a restaurant in Paris sitting next to a table with two Aussie guys, and we could not understand a single word they were saying to each other (the tables were jammed together). When they heard us talking, they noted we were American and began a conversation with us. They were both attorneys. Their English was slightly more understandable talking to us, but most of the time, we were just nodding at various times without actually understanding what they were saying. Understandably, the conversation just kind'a faded away, and we spent the rest of the meal in a kind of embarrassed ignoring of each other. Ornery Cuss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Joe, SASS #24061 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 During a break in a training class in Jamaica I overheard two soldiers speaking with each other.. I asked one of the soldiers what language they were speaking.. When he answered "English", I felt like a fool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatcher Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c It takes a while . .but you do get used to it, and sometimes you can follow along pretty well . .other times there's no help for it . . but I've had that problem in the deep south and in the northernmost parts of New England as well . . . . I find that after being back here in the UK now for some 6 months I am getting my ears re-tuned - the dialects are coming through more clearly . . . If I was back up north like last time I'd probably already have that video sussed . . . SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Soooo, when you come home, we will not be able to communicate with you for about three months? I say, that is a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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