MetaFilter posts tagged with dialect

spammen all over you

mwhybark — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:54:43 -0800

overclockblocked , by Sumit Dan. short story told in speculative chippy dialect. Fucken AIbrid think he so fucking cool with he retrofleshy stylen. Like you don’t already know he dealin double-helix, not just some two-bit qubit.

Hear and Compare Accents of English from Around the World

Kattullus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:16:40 -0800

Sound Comparisons is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and IPA transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a handy Google map of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian, Sound Comparisons is the site to go to.

Scots' speech for the glaikit

persona non grata — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:46:10 -0800

Losh! That's a stoater of a web site!

I can't believe quonsar didn't win.

DeepFriedTwinkies — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:38:23 -0800

The American Dialect Society has announced the 2005 word of the year. Sadly, muffin top, crotchfruit, Cruizasy (PDF file), and the obviously wonderful popesquatting were big old losers.

By Gum, I divvent!

Masi — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:20:17 -0800

English Accents and Dialects. The British Library has compiled an online archive of northern speech dating back to the 19th century. The recordings range from from audio from Victorian cylinder dictaphones to 1950s football fans chanting.

American Dialect Society's 2003 Words of the Year

y2karl — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:38:20 -0800

ass-hat: noun, a thoughtless or stupid person.
cliterati: collective noun, feminist or woman-oriented writers or opinion-leaders.
flexitarian: noun, a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat.
freegan: noun, person who eats only what they can get for free.

Some winners from the American Dialect Society's 2003 Words of the Year.

Words of the Year 2002 Awards

Voyageman — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:55:38 -0800

Words of the Year 2002 Awards American Dialect Society Word of the Year : "WMD - weapons of mass destruction". Most Unnecessary: "wombanization" . Most Outrageous: "neuticles" . Most Useful (by unanimous decision): "google".....1991 Word of the Year: "mother of all."

acridrabbit — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:54:23 -0800

The Declaration of Independence in American by H.L. Mencken, circa 1921. A quote: "When things get so balled up that the people of a country have to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are on the level, and not trying to put nothing over on nobody." Gangbusters!

pixelpony — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 13:56:42 -0800

A review of the Legend Bagger Vance written in the Mad Ape Den dialect. What is Mad Ape Den, you ask? It is a dialect which spurns all words with more than three letters. After all, "If you can not say it in one or in two (or in one and two) why say it at all?"

tdecius — Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:12:46 -0800

Metafilter, Dialectized. Slaop muh fro!