Additional context:
Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I’m in Europe, I’ve noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away…
In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just… understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it’s pretty incredible
Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn’t think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this…
Wow, lots of people picking out whole regions to say they cant understand and i… Have never had that problem. Honestly, really, english is easy to catch the ear and even people who barely speak it can usually get legible words out. You never make the sounds accidentally.
I’m not a big fan of mumbly accents, its just lazy about the sounds but if you’ve ever understood grumbling and mumbling you can get any accent.
(Note: not true for dialects that have their own local words for things)
The definition of a dialect is having it’s own words for things.
Well look at that, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.
Didnt realize that slang was part of dialect and only associated the first 2. Learn something every day.
Every dialect has their own words for things
I had associated that with only localization and slang. Didnt realize that was dialect. That being said, you can still understand the words just and get enough cintext to realize you dont say “fanny” in UK