The New York Accent – One Dialect or Many
The New York Accent is viewed as one of the most celebrated and notorious accents on the globe. People from all over seem to recognize some of its elements, denoted by a couple linguistically proven features. Perhaps, one of the most famous examples of the New York accent is Dustin Hoffman’s “I’m walkin’ here!” from […]
Gaelic in East Perthshire, and other languages and dialects in Eastern Scotland
Scottish Gaelic, like Faroese, is a language which, when written, often gives an imposing indication of the etymological roots of that language. The etymological spelling of Gaelic does work very well I think, to show the language as a whole, and as a medium that fits the dialects due to their historic etymological connections. On […]
The Northern European link to language in Northern and Western Scotland
To the north of the Scottish mainland are two groups of islands, known as Orkney and Shetland. Not too long ago, these islands had their own Germanic language, or Germanic languages, referred to as Norn. Over the past few hundred years, the linguistic heritage of these islands became transformed into ‘Scots’, Orkney Scots and Shetlandic […]
Xhosa in Black Panther
Did you know that the language used in the new Marvel movie Black Panther is spoken in South Africa? It is called Xhosa and it is one of the many official languages we have here in South Africa. Here are some phrases to get you started Hello. Molo. /molo/ Good Morning/Day/Evening. Molo Kunjani. /molo kundʒani/ […]
Correlation between food, jaw evolution, and language
It takes a minor inconvenience to appreciate something we take for granted, I’ll tell you that. In this case I am talking about a sin of gluttony — burning one’s tongue on hot food. Now, we’ve all been in the situation where one’s food has been so tasty looking, but boiling hot, that one cannot […]
German with English cognates
Cognates are words of common origin. German “Hand” and English “hand”, for instance.These are obviously the same word. But sometimes cognates are not so obvious. Languageschange over time. “humbug” used to be very offensive, the same way “bullshit” is now, butnow “humbug” just sounds quaint and silly. The English word “land” in German is “Land”.German […]
