British people have TOO MANY regional accents (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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It's a tiny ass island yet whenever a British person hears another British person they'll be like "Oi guvenor! I know exactly where in Merry-ol-England they are from! Clearly they're from Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton!" And Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton is a town like 10 minutes away from where they live.

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

You should see Wenzhounese in China.

Completely indecipherable to me.

It's a Wu language, but not mutually intelligible for other Wu languages like Shanghainese, let alone Mandarin or Cantonese. Furthermore, within Wenzhounese, there's 3 dialects for north, central and south.

[-] coolusername@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

I was watching the Chinese movie eight hundred and I was thinking, how did people communicate with each other back then? Did most people even know mandarin?