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A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas

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Re: A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas

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Ah, an article about my home state. It's worth pointing out how isolated this town is... Interstate doesn't even run through that part of the state, and the nearest 'big city' is hours away.

Isolation is probably an important factor for the development of an accent

Re: A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas

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post #6
post #5

Ah, an article about my home state. It's worth pointing out how isolated this town is... Interstate doesn't even run through that part of the state, and the nearest 'big city' is hours away.

Isolation is probably an important factor for the development of an accent

I would add that isolation is a fundamental factor in the theory of evolution.

Re: A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas

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Dialects are interesting. While it's still mutually intelligible, it's an accent. I wonder whether the Liberal accent will develop into a separate language like Louisiana Creole?

I made some graphs about the status of languages in Windows/macOS/Ubuntu/Google Translate/Facebook/Wikipedia/IB, and included a section about dialects of Chinese.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17344466

Re: A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas

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Interesting. The "spanish influenced" accent described in the video sounds like standard English in southern california.

Yeah, I get the feeling they make a big fuzz out of it. In the video she’s mentioning the different ways an “a” is pronounced. If you look at England, every other towns has a different accent (that’s what I’ve heard)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-differ...

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