Gregory's Server@alan it's impressive, but woefully incomplete IMHO - I can think of at least five different dialects just along the I-5 corridor alone, from Chicano English and the modified Valleyspeak (which I mentally call the "skater's dialect") of Humboldt County and the Emerald Triangle to the Portland dialect's fronted vowels and the flat, country radio-informed pseudo-twang of lumber town natives. It's silly to paint everything west of Denver as one huge blob of homogeneity with a few small enclaves!
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@doctorLURK @alan I was going to add the same about the "we're just phoning it in" blob for most of English Canada. @krupo @alan I believe it! The truth is that a lot of research into these dialects is still ongoing because they're relatively young, so not a lot of them have been formally accepted yet. It's still weird to see that unfinished work visualized. We know better than to think it's definitive - we *know* languages are always evolving, if nothing else - but our ape brains can't resist thinking "this is set in stone" when we see static information like this. It's still a really cool project! @doctorLURK @alan I read on more deeply, and there were a few relevant points. Almost 1000 samples in the collection and following a CBC interview: "Note to Canadians: Nora points out that Canadians are currently underrepresented on the map. So, this is your chance to change that! Send in your samples...." It's funny because I can pick up different accents just from the different parts of Toronto |
@doctorLURK Yeah, I totally agree, all of The West needs way more detail.