Re: OT: Californian and Teen Speak

B. Garcia wrote:

>Here's a link to an NPR interview with Penelope Eckert, professor of
>Linguistics at Stanford who has been studying the speech of teenagers
>around
>the Bay Area of northern California. She gives better
>explanations of what I'm talking about than I do :)
>
>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1693373
>
>
Just a question for my personal knowledge:

How many dialects of English can y'all "percieve" as English speakers?

Personnally I can only distinct 4 of them: North of the US, South of the US,
England, and Australia

But there are probably more of them: NW and NE can probably be distincted
like SW and SE and maybe Center and there are probably more than one in
Australia and England and some others in all the english speaking countries.

What is it for y'all?

- Max

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