Rare Dialects

[Tom Zurinskas]

Unitelligible dialects? absolutely.  I attended a talent show at a local college with my parents and wife.  The MC was a black man and much of the audience was black.  He must have been funny because they were having a ball.  Meanwhile we kept looking at each other wondering what he was saying.  I will never forget it.

It happened in England as well.  I had to avoid this fellow member of a society I belong to because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:11:41 -0500
> From: djmetevia at CHARTERMI.NET
> Subject: Rare Dialects
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: David Metevia
> Subject: Rare Dialects
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> An interesting article in the LA Times yesterday:
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> http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-interpret21-2009feb21,0,5139254.story
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> This man could communicate easily in his home town and even somewhat
> outside of that as he knows some Spanish. However, it is a big culture
> shock to be in California.
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> Are there examples in the US of AmE dialects so isolated from the
> mainstream that most of us would have difficulty communicating?
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