-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:00:06AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: >> cga2000 wrote: >>> About 20 miles East of the city. >> Well, more like zero (Queens and Brooklyn are part of both the city >> and the Island, unless you're talking like the locals, to whom The City >> is Manhattan, and the rest is referred to by borough name) to 120 miles >> east. There's a reason they call it _Long_ Island. :-) > >>> I guess you were referring to a New York City accent like in the old >>> gangster movies? Like Jimmy Cagney, maybe? >> It ain't just the old movies---that accent is alive and well and >> living in Queens. How Queens and Brooklyn accents can be so different >> (they're adjacent on the Island) is beyond me. > > > I grew up in Brooklyn, and I have to say that New York, for such a > small state, has the largest diversity in accents I've ever heard. > > Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island, Queens, Bronx, and more; Even > upstate New York has it's own set of accents!
You should see what Dutch is like here. Talk about diversity. The Netherlands is a very small country, yet there are 2 official languages (Dutch and Fries) and at least 50 different dialects. Someone from the North of the country cannot understand someone from the middle, or vice versa. Most dialects even have their own spelling. For example. Het Kanaal = The Canal in regualar Dutch 't Knoal = The Canal in Gronings They sound very different. Luckily, television has brought some commonality, so most everyone can understand normal Dutch, but the news frequently has to use subtitles so the rest of the country can understand what some being interviewed is saying. - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGETR7iXBCVWpc5J4RAs4rAJ457hCUYlyZ8tNa3kli1AFmS9cOvACgyWab NieoZQ7yiSyEAhKnoTM+RW8= =QXYQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
