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Kinda makes sense, though. You can fly from the west coast of the US to South Africa in under 24 hours. Areas that used to take weeks, months, and even years to get to are now under 24 hours and largely less than $5,000 to travel to.
We are gonna get some wild pandemics since anyone can criss-cross the globe so fast.
We need to reinforce regional accents and provide more indigenous languages courses.
There is a lot to look at here 👀
Cool map! Do you have a source? Curious if they've done other countries.
This is a lot for me to take in, and even with some of the audio excerpts, explanations and charts I still don't get it.
I don't understand how they put Vancouver and Toronto in the same accent group. Quite distinct.
Hooray, I'm a "generalized American"!
"but I don't have an accent" he said with a generalised American accent
Why do you sound weird when you say that?
Where I'm from, "Mary," "Marry," and "Merry" are not pronounced the same.
Mary rhymes with airy. Marry rhymes with Barry. Merry rhymes with ferry.
Every one of those words rhyme and sound the same.... Not sure if you are joking or of my accent is the joke...
Where are you from? Wildly guessing NZ?
Same here. I'm from NJ.
Man, the breakdown of NOLA is crazy accurate.
Interesting how Washington, DC used to be within the Southern accent territory, but this has died out to mostly older speakers.
The anecdote that really hits this home for me is that in 2006 they updated the voice on the metro which said "Doors closing, please stand clear of the doors." The old voice had a southern accent but the new voice did not.
It reminds me a lot of ourdialects.uk which does similar but for the UK and split across a few different maps. I'd love a website where it guesses where you (or someone else) are from based on some sort of quiz.
This is an awesome map
fascinating. you can almost see why Boston has the crazy accent.
Loving the little island of French around Falher (pronounced "Fall-air")
Nice to see the province of Alberta having a French majority area despite the hostility to francophone culture.
So west Texas and east Tennessee sound the same?
North Georgian here. Decidedly no.
I guess I’m Inland/Lowland South in Kentucky.
Not sure I agree there's a "Hamptons" accent, I've lived all over long Island and currently am in the east end.
We all sound the same: like arrogant assholes. :P
I think most of this is going over my head, but I'm especially trying to wrap my head around The Midland exclaves for San Francisco, El Paso, and Tallahassee.
"simple r dropper" seems like a double entendre.