[KS] Re: North-South Standard Dialects, Regionalism

[Jason Shaw Parker]

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Ah but the difference between Liverpool and London is not greater then that 
of Long Island and Georgia : )



At 11:53 PM 8/8/00 +0900, you wrote:
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>>As far as I am aware, regionalism is the result of the geographic 
>>composition of the peninsula. This created very difficult terrain to 
>>cross in the Yi and previous periods prior to modernization, which lent 
>>its hand at creating regional differences through separation.
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>Mm, I think regionalism existed everywhere, at least in the old world 
>where people traveled less a century ago. When I grew up it still existed 
>but due to modernization a lot of it has gone but, at least in the 
>Netherlands lots of regions were pretty independent and dialects differed 
>greatly. My sister taught at a school where half of her students were 
>almost unable to communicate with the other half, since the village lies 
>on the border of Friesland and Groningen. Frisian is a different language 
>than Dutch, Groningen dialect is pretty different too. My grandparents 
>(only living 10 km away, spoke already a different dialect than we did. I 
>don't think the terrain in Holland was so difficult to cross, at least not 
>in the region where I lived. Agreed mountains will add to greater 
>differences, but I don't think this is the only explanation and a too easy 
>one. As for the official language, neither the people in the Hague nor the 
>people in Amsterdam speak the official language. That privilege is taken 
>by Haarlem. Also in London the people don't speak the Queens English, that 
>privilege is only taken by her ;-) I think people of the New World tend to 
>forget that dialects and regionalism in the old world are a phenomena 
>which is not easy to understand. The difference between Liverpool English 
>and London English is much bigger than New York English and Los Angeles 
>English or even Texan, to mention only a few examples.
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>I know we are not studying Dutch history and language here, but I thought 
>it was good to make some comparisons. I hope others will throw in their 
>ideas as well.
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>>The dialect question is an interesting and good one. I had always taken 
>>the "Seoul" position at face value without questioning it.
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>Seoul, till the end of the 19th century was a relative small city as 
>compared to other cities, it was only the "Kings City".
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