[Poll:] Dialects, word patterns and lingusitic shift
2008-Apr-11, Friday 18:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's a dialect meme (
[Poll #1169647]Huge bunch of sources for some of those questions (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and some of the differences and similarities are strange. Yorkshire is, from what I can tell, more "different" than most of the other places, Londoners and Devonshire folk speak more similarly to USians and Aussies thanthey do to, supposedly, fellow English peeps. Well, God's Own Country and all that. I still cause confusion calling cakes cakes and dinner dinner (seriously, the word for lunch is dinner ? How does that work?). Ah well, have fun voting y'all.
[*] Two different people who I'm sure don't read each other did the same joke for that one, just for different countries.
Off out now, discovering the joys of Bradford nightlife. Wish me luck.
what do I call things) doing the rounds that I'm finding quite interesting, I've seen answers in Aussie, New Orleans, Yorksher, London and Real Places (ie Devon). So I thought I'd compile the common answers into a poll (linguistic shifts interest me). As always, if you don't have a Livejournal account you can login and vote with any OpenID, which everyone's got these days. So, without further ado...
[Poll #1169647]Huge bunch of sources for some of those questions (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and some of the differences and similarities are strange. Yorkshire is, from what I can tell, more "different" than most of the other places, Londoners and Devonshire folk speak more similarly to USians and Aussies thanthey do to, supposedly, fellow English peeps. Well, God's Own Country and all that. I still cause confusion calling cakes cakes and dinner dinner (seriously, the word for lunch is dinner ? How does that work?). Ah well, have fun voting y'all.
[*] Two different people who I'm sure don't read each other did the same joke for that one, just for different countries.
Off out now, discovering the joys of Bradford nightlife. Wish me luck.
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Date: 2008-Apr-11, Friday 18:59 (UTC)Also, I went for "settee" because I think that's the one I say most often, but I will also use "sofa" and if it's particularly snuggly or made of leather, "couch".
As you were.
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Date: 2008-Apr-11, Friday 19:10 (UTC)Are you going to the Gasworks?
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Date: 2008-Apr-12, Saturday 13:13 (UTC)(The inspiration for the poll was the silliness)
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Date: 2008-Apr-11, Friday 22:17 (UTC)7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
I call it a porch, if it's attached to the house, a patio if it's not. (So my parents have a porch made out of wood that you step off the back door right onto it, and the patio is the cement thing off the side of the patio that is adjacent to it.) My apartment is on the second floor, and I have a small wood area without an awning (but directly below another similar area). I alternate between calling it a porch and a balcony.
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Date: 2008-Apr-11, Friday 22:29 (UTC)That we call a deck.
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Date: 2008-Apr-12, Saturday 13:16 (UTC)Hadn't considered balcony and similar, never personally lived somewhere with one (although lived in a flat for several years).
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Date: 2008-Apr-11, Friday 22:28 (UTC)#7 Aside from location (which
#15 Cockroaches can curl up?
#18 Car boot sales are usually for items that don't necessarily have a clear and straight-forward path from the factory, if you know what I mean.
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Date: 2008-Apr-12, Saturday 13:46 (UTC)But yeah, know what you mean—they used to be almost exclusively for normal people to get rid of stuff, but more and more dodgy dealers started to make a living through them.
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Date: 2008-Apr-13, Sunday 18:37 (UTC)I know, the idea of a cockroach curling up is amusing and frightening. I imagine a cockroach being attacked by something that makes it curl up like a blubbering little boy. But, what would be able to make a cockroach do that? I don't think I want to know.
And, I can just see the packaging for New and Improved Gravity! Now with 2 Gs for the price of 1!