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| KidRoberts Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4133 days ago 19 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Afrikaans | Message 41 of 45 06 September 2013 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Is it odd that I don't have one dialect with my own English? I have 'standard' American
English with some Pittsburghese sprinkled in. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4097 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 42 of 45 06 September 2013 at 9:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's probably less odd than you'd think. Parents, education, work, friends, living situation, etc. all play their part. Even if it's your native language you can have a mixed dialect, either in general or just with certain types of situational words... as is my case with English these days. Even if I were to make an effort to use RP, instead of a more standard British English, I can't say "Aberdeen" without an Aberdonian accent, because I've lived there and that's just how it's always been said in my head.
I'm sorry to hear that!
As I have indicated in my posts, it is a matter of pronunciation, but also a matter of intonation, stress (KLT normally stresses the penultimate syllable, Vannetais normally stresses the ultimate), morphology (lenition and fortition differ between the dialects for example), idioms, and also vocabulary. In terms of important vocabulary, for example, the verb "to be" in KLT is bezañ, but it's bout in Vannetais. Conjugating the verb in KLT and Vannetais, you get for example: 1 sing pres: on (KLT + V) 2 sing pres: out (KLT) — ous (V) 3 sing pres: eo (KLT) — ema (V) The verb "to have", in the present, differs only once: 1 plur pres: hon eus (KLT) — hor beus (V) But it differs more in other tenses, such as the conditional: it's "befe/pefe" in KLT but "behe/pehe/dehe" in Vannetais. I'm just a beginner, and I haven't studied the differences any more than I had to in order to decide whether it was important enough to make the effort to find materials in the "right" dialect, so I don't want to make the differences out to be enormously dividing when they aren't necessarily. I don't know if those differences are more than you expected, or just about right, but to me it's a pretty significant difference (for the geographically invested, that is, which means most learners, but not necessarily the average polyglot). According to a lot of people it's a significant enough difference that there shouldn't be a joint orthography to start with, but for the sake of learners and school children everywhere I for one am happy that there is one (or, you know, three-four). ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 43 of 45 06 September 2013 at 9:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have a Vannetais dictionary actually, I'm aware the differences are big between KLT and
Vannetais. I was thinking of dialects within KLT on a more micro-level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4097 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 44 of 45 06 September 2013 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Aha. When I finally thought that we had stopped speaking completely past each other, every step of the way, it seems that I was wrong again. Well, since it's very rare for me to stumble into anyone learning Breton outside of the francophone Breton-learning communities, it was nice kind of but not really talking to you about things we apparently actually agree on but can't seem to agree on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 45 of 45 06 September 2013 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think we do agree, if you live locally you pick up the local pronunciation, that
makes sense, and it's what I would do. However I am a rare breed who learns Breton at home (although I do use the francophone materials because I did learn French). But in general, even though Vannetais is fairly different in terms of stress and pronunciation, pronunciation is something you can take a few months to get accustomed to, maybe even less if you're good with phonology. I haven't studied Gwenedeg enough to understand the grammatical differences though. I learned the standard KLT orthography and pronounce it (poorly because I haven't ever spoken in real life in Breton yet outside of Demat and Trugarez). But in general, the québécois accent differs from the French, and the intonation and use of words in Belgian Dutch is super different from standard Dutch. Or to take an example from your native Swedish - if you're going to live in Skåne, yeah, learn skånska. But for me who does not live in Sweden, a foreigner should not blame me for learning rikssvenska, even though it might differ strongly from skånska or nörrlandska or whatever. That was my point, and I got the feeling from the brittophone community that they were being annoyed at someone learning a general version when you have at least 2 if not 4 main dialects in Breton. Which differ strongly. But they do so in Swedish, German, Dutch, English, French etc. and then nobody complains about learning a standard variant unless you are living locally in an area where a particular dialect is spoken. And a brittophone has even less right to do so because they're trying to keep the language alive. Edited by tarvos on 06 September 2013 at 10:50am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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