English Language Struggles: Overcoming Problems

[anorlunda]

I have read that the Southern United States and certain remote areas such as Appalachia speak English with archaic accents derived from the 16th and 17th Centuries.

If you go to certain places such as Tangeir Island Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, the natives still speak Elizabethan English. The dialect is called High Tider or Hoi Toider . When I heard it, I could not even identify is as a variant of English.

French in Quebec or in New Orleans, are very different than French in France.

But you can find similar variations in Europe, for example:

 

[phinds]

When I lived in Germany in the 50's there was a joke in German that I can't recall but the punchline was something like "We couldn't understand him - he's from Bavaria".

 

[sysprog]

When I lived in Germany in the 50's there was a joke in German that I can't recall but the punchline was something like "We couldn't understand him - he's from Bavaria".

Oh, so he presumably was 'Bayerische', as in 'Bayerische Motoren Werke'?

 

[phinds]

Oh, so he presumably was 'Bayerische', as in 'Bayerische Motoren Werke'?

Yes, I said he was was from Bravaria so of course he was Bravarian (or in German, Bayerische)