Why do most countries have extremely different dialects that cannot be understood by people in the same country while the United States basically has one?
We're freakin' *young*. Those dialects grew up over centuries of isolation. The average person wouldn't go from Edinburgh to London, ever.
The Short Answer
We're freakin' *young*. Those dialects grew up over centuries of isolation. The average person wouldn't go from Edinburgh to London, ever. So you have a long time of relative linguistic isolation. Compare to the US, where it's been common for a century or so to move from one end of the continent to the other, and we're less than 300 years old.
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Key Concepts: We're, isolation, freakin'
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We're freakin' *young*. Those dialects grew up over centuries of isolation. The average person wouldn't go from Edinburgh to London, ever. So you have a long time of relative linguistic isolation. Compare to the US, where it's been common for a…
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