It’s all fun and games until they mention it to each other

PARLES

The power of the sun earth, in the palm of my hands

Soft pipi compact

Rance 🤝 ich_iel

Okay, I looked it up, and it seems I was getting confused with the Australian weak vowel merger; the pin/pen merger is actually in some American accents

What? How is that the conclusion you’re drawing here? As a side note, I have learnt and can speak German and have lived and studied in Germany. But more importantly, I feel like we’re having two entirely different conversations. My understanding of your argument is that it is invalid to put down potentially confusing pronunciation differences down to accents. Please correct me if I have misunderstood what you’re saying. My argument is that this is just a natural linguistic process and differing pronunciations even to the point of confusion between dialects is inevitable. If someone’s dialect/accent truly does cause communication problems, then a workaround needs to found, whether that’s rewording things so that confusion caused by pronunciation is averted, or by code-switching to a common dialect in more extreme cases. Neither of these invalidates either dialect or accent. People speak differently, and no matter how strange it might sound, it’s just something you have to get over.

So basically your argument is that an accent or dialect is only valid if it can be understood by people from outside that speech community? German and English both have the same linguistic origins, but they are not mutually intelligible. Does that make either or both invalid ways of speaking? Do you realise that phonological changes are a perfectly natural part of linguistic evolution and, given enough time, speakers of dialect X and dialect Y can stop being able to understand each other? Yes, you can code-switch to make yourself more understandable to speakers of another dialect, but that’s generally what you do when the differences between the two dialects are big enough that you feel the need to change the entire manner in which you speak.

Also accents are not people “choosing” to speak another way. It’s just a result of linguistic change.

I mean, in Australian accents, pen and pin are pronounced the same. That doesn’t make their accent invalid.

People when they find out different accents exist: >:(

Never call the Irish British

cf. https://youtu.be/o4GZUCwVRLs (Louis Rossman’s latest video)

The brave search engine AI gave the following summary:

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Well…

Putin ist so 1 Pimmel

Same place as last year then, I guess?

Ich spreche doch Deutsch…

Yeah, this makes more sense now that I see it’s an ADHD meme. Man, that’s rough.

Surely drinking water is one of the first things you do when you get up? How could you forget to do that (unless you have a medical issue which genuinely makes you forget to stay hydrated/not feel thirst or something like that)?

Oh, so you mean the whole of the contemporary field of linguistics?