Communication and Dialect in America
What makes us speak differently than one another? There is a thin line between “dialect”, “slang”, and “language”. Dialect mainly determines how your voice sounds depending on your region, in this case America. Slang, is made up words that transformed over time to shorten things. Language takes up copious portions of the world to make up communication in that region. Dialect can tell a lot about someone and where they are from.
There are 24 regions of American dialect. The region in which Alabama is located is called the “Gulf Southern” dialect which comes from the combination of British, and French accents. Alabama shares this regions with every deep south state excluding Georgia, and New Orleans. Some
What makes us speak differently than one another? There is a thin line between “dialect”, “slang”, and “language”. Dialect mainly determines how your voice sounds depending on your region, in this case America. Slang, is made up words that transformed over time to shorten things. Language takes up copious portions of the world to make up communication in that region. Dialect can tell a lot about someone and where they are from.
There are 24 regions of American dialect. The region in which Alabama is located is called the “Gulf Southern” dialect which comes from the combination of British, and French accents. Alabama shares this regions with every deep south state excluding Georgia, and New Orleans. Some