Re: YAEDT? Syntax in dialects of English (was: Of accents & dialects (was: Azurian phonology))

--- On Sat, 10/25/08, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
...
>
> > I've never personally encountered an American
> accent that was truly
> > incomprehensible, but I'd guess that the
> Appalachian area could have
> > one or two.
>
> Nor have I, but I have a friend from Belgium, fluent in
> Dutch, French
> and English, who now lives in the USA.  She told me that,
> for a while,
> after she arrived she could not understand the black people
> here in the
> South.
>
> Charlie
I had trouble for a while with the Philadelphia street lingo in the TV series "The Wire".

I've also heard so deep Cajun accents that are quite difficult.

--gary