Reading Time: 3 minutesAbout every month I find myself looking at some US Dialect Map trying to figure out where some person I’ve met fits in. And inevitably it takes me back to pondering the fact that in my own family we speak … Continue reading
Category: Dialects & Accents
Let’s talk about how are languages different from one region or culture to another. Are we talking about upper midlands, a pin-pen merger, AAVE, or something else?
Do signed languages have accents and dialects?
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the last two years my wife and I have been privately taking ASL (American Sign Language) lessons. We are far from fluent but we’re also well beyond introductions and names. And something that you might wonder is, “are there … Continue reading