Why english dialects aren't considered to be their own languages despite grammatical, phonetical and lexical differences between them, like with the dutch and norse languages, with the exception of Scots?
Why english dialects aren't considered to be their own languages despite grammatical...
Michael Fisher
Matthew Sanders
Dutch dialects are more different than English dialects.
Chase Davis
That's the same for all dialects and languages. It's considered a language then when there is a power center around it that can project power over a certain region thus the accurate statement 'A language is a dialect with an army and a navy'
Brandon Martin
We're a post teenager culture
>"omg im so unique, look at this language and culture"
>literally the exact same shit
Not afraid to call an egg an egg.
Jonathan Ortiz
Because like Chinese, English is also unified by orthography. If Scottish English was written phonetically rather than using standard English orthography, then the result would look bizarre and non-Englishlike.
Carter Thomas
Those aren't even dialects just regional variants of the same standard language. The major differences are minor phonetical ones, making them accents, not dialects. In formal speech and writing, the lexical differences are also minor.
If you think that American and Australian English could be compared to German and Dutch, or Swedish and Danish, then you are very mistaken and clearly don't know anything about said languages.
Jacob Roberts
because all English dialects can easily be understood with each other.
Noah Jackson
Can the different Dutch and Norse languages understand each other almost perfectly?
Jason Diaz
No, not at all.
Christian Rivera
Only LARPers on twitter think Scots is a language.