11 Difficult English Accents You WON'T Understand - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SJ-wTR2H6M

My correct guesses were:
Trinidad
Appalachia
Jamaica
Newfoundland
Glasgow

#Languages #English #Accents

11 Difficult English Accents You WON'T Understand - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SJ-wTR2H6M

#Languages #English #Accents

A new accent from 'Antarctica' has been discovered by scientists | indy100
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/antarctica-accent-discovered-scientists-123456-2664589883

#Antarctica
#Scientists
#Accents

When this chap stopped me on the Canterbury high street on a Friday night to ask “is it [tʃ]une or [t]une”, I don’t think he was expecting “whichever way you like” would be my sincere answer #accents #sociolinguistics #SocioInTheWild

#accents #language #fyp

I’m listening to an audiobook of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” which was recorded with a strong Scottish accent and I don’t even mind the effort of figuring out what I’m hearing.
Another, more recent book with similarly effective Scottish narration is Elle McNicoll’s “A Kind of Spark” which has all the accent but less of the archaic vocabulary. #audiobooks #accents #scotland

*in a heavy Essex accent*

"Oh brave new world, wot 'as such peeps, innit?"

#Essex #accent #accents #BraveNewWorld

I haven’t done a proper #introduction yet! I’m Carolee, white American trying to use my unearned privilege to make the world around me a place where my lived experience is no longer perceived as the default. I make mistakes but try to learn from them.

Staunch ally of the #LGBTQ community. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Interested in learning #languages (fluent in English, learner in French, sign language, Scottish Gaelic, German, and Spanish). Hobbyist in #accents of English and fan of #lingustics.

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@freakazoid Naïve, like façade and résumé, should always keep its accent. At base, it's not an English word, and its spelling doesn't make sense without the accent.

#French #English #spelling #accents

My #Somerset husband just tried to ask the #Sky Q box to search for “Scotland’s greatest escapes”. It thought he said “surprised potatoes” 😜 We are now aching with laughing and I’ve still got tears running down my face. #VoiceControl #Accents #WestCountry #Scotland #OoArr

Nice one on the Kiwi accent from Reddit 🤣https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/13iykf2/kiwi_accent_is_something_else/

#KiwiAccent #Kiwis #Accents #TheKids

Today is being stressful so I think I'll make #chatgpt write descriptions for my #wled #lamp (plus some random remixes of other stuff) and get it all posted on #Printables.

Alternately I could tear the #prusa hot end apart, again, and try to stop the leak, again, but I would rather just save up to replace the whole extruder.

On the automation front, #Homeassistant has gotten more talkative with the new release. I converted all the existing #google #tts to use #selfhosted #piper and now Ryan has come to work for us.

I do miss some of our original voices though. `language: en-in` was our newscaster, `en-au` told us about weather and #BigEar cat tracker reports, etc. (If you are still using google, have some fun with #tts #accents. Try sending `language: fr` with English text. We had that voice assigned to turning off lights and reminding us to close doors, and occasionally filling in when the newscaster was "out sick".)

#3dprinting #voiceassistant #homeautomation #ai

Haha, just heard this #taxi driver saying that no one can understand the people at the dispatch call centre because they're all #Scottish. 😂

#accents #English

I was reading Bourdieu yesterday and he also observed this: “A striking and consistent finding in much language research is that lower‑status speakers have with great regularity led the linguistic charge in many of the innovations that have become well‑accepted parts of our language” - How Lower-Class Innovation, Like, Changes the Langwage https://lithub.com/how-lower-class-innovation-like-changes-the-langwage/ @linguistics #linguistics #accents #innovation #variation #language #academicchatter

One of my little sidelines is recording #Manure for #Sale #signs. See https://manureforsale.wordpress.com/ I particularly love signs that reflect #local #accents and #vernacular (‘Manuare’ in #Cornwall for example!). And signs where the #letter spacing goes awry. This new one is a cracker! #Horse #Muck #Yorkshire #Organic #Free #Gardening #OutsiderArt #Design

Bé, doncs ja he solucionat (tret d'un petit detall) el tema. Es tractava de:

- instal·lar IBus (# pacman -S ibus) i
- activar IBus ($ ibus start)

Amb l'aplicació Preferències de l'IBus es poden afegir altres configuracions del teclat.

El que no he aconseguit (problemes diversos) és que KDE active IBus abans d'entrar-hi, de manera que em toca fer-ho manualment (problema menor). Després, he de reiniciar Yakuake o no em reconeixerà els accents; i també he de tindre present iniciar Tmux amb l'ordre:

$ tmux -u

per obligar-lo a emprar correctament UTF-8; en cas contrari, també donarà problemes amb els accents (en lloc de «à», escriu «_»).

La solució és parcial, doncs, però ja em permet treballar: sembla que totes les aplicacions reconeixen els accents amb normalitat.

Seguirem investigant.

#EndeavourOS
#Plasma #KDE
#UTF8
#accents

How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
A linguistic exploration. By Dan Nosowitz (2015)

#Sopranos #Language #Accents #Linguistics #Italian

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained (1/5) 🧵

How And Why Some People Lose Their #Accents or Pick Up New Ones

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-and-why-some-people-lose-their-accents-or-pick-up-new-ones

I've gotta love how everyone at WGU has that flat Western accent. Latest guy I'm working with has all that and also sounds vaguely Canadian. 😀 Starting my MBA program next month; the prize is in reach. 🤞

#WGU #WesternGovernorsUniversity #MBA #college #university #highereducation #education #linguistics #accents

Gemma Arterton on - among other things, #accents in acting.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/19/gemma-arterton-in-real-life-im-quite-silly