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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Additional context:

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

Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn't think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this...

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Wow, lots of people picking out whole regions to say they cant understand and i... Have never had that problem. Honestly, really, english is easy to catch the ear and even people who barely speak it can usually get legible words out. You never make the sounds accidentally.
I'm not a big fan of mumbly accents, its just lazy about the sounds but if you've ever understood grumbling and mumbling you can get any accent.

(Note: not true for dialects that have their own local words for things)

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Every dialect has their own words for things

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 33 minutes ago

The definition of a dialect is having it’s own words for things.