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Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I'm in Europe, I've noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away...

In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just... understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it's pretty incredible

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Idk, I recently heard some thick Scottish English and I couldn't understand literally anything. That might be in part due to the fact that I'm not a native speaker, but still I believe people outside the British isles would struggle with it.

Some of the uniformity is a result of cultural domination of specific centres and now unavoidable loss of original dialectal variation.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

When I was in Glasgow I couldn't understand anybody older than 40.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

People inside the British Aisles would still struggle.

Especially if it was a Weegie

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Was it Scottish English or Scots? The line between the two is blurry because intelligibility varies a lot

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure it was Scottish English. Does anyone outside of super rural places actively use Scots anyway?