Speaking 'properly' or not

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mary Ann" <marycloudt at y...>
wrote:
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> ....edited...
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> The Netherlands may be small but there are an astounding number of 
> dialects. I moved to Canada when I was very young so I'm only 
> familiar with universal Dutch and my parents' provincial Limburg 
> dialect.  If I travel to any neighbouring province I honestly cannot 
> understand a word of those local dialects.  ...
> 
> Mary Ann

bboyminn:

Well, in a way, the USA has various dialets too. Not exactly dialets
more like a combination of accents, odd speech cadence, and local
slang. I remember when I was in the Army. Basic Training was fine
because most of the guys were from either Texas or the Midwest.
Myself, I was just a young naive inexperienced small town country boy
from the midwest. But then I was assigned to Fort Meade Maryland. Now
I was with a combination of Deep South and mid-East Coast people (NY,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland) black people. And I swear I could not
understand a word they said exept when the swore. There was one black
guy whose speech was so 'clipped', when he got excited, even other
black guys couldn't understand him.

Nothing against black people, some of them turn out to be very good
friends. More than anything, just a sign of how UN-worldly I was.

Steve/bboyminn