When I came to US for work, though I knew English very well, it was difficult to understand certain specific dialects like Texan English or Philly English. I've seen people slow down and speak the exact same sentence, which wasn't helpful in anyway as I was still not understanding what they were speaking. It took sometime for me to understand - water pronounced wuter, towel pronounced tal, you all as y'all etc.

My English was also different for an American audience. Whenever I saw my audience not understanding what I just said in a meeting, I started repeating it with a different sentence structure changing a few words here and there, and it worked like a charm most of the time. Also, adding visible gestures could also fill the gaps.

With type hints, secondary tooling like the typing module, and really good inspectors like Pyright already available, a strongly typed dialect of python is definitely coming. Just like the JavaScript world is heavily adopting their version of the same in TypeScript, the new dialect will likely have a new name.

Here’s the issue: the name that keeps getting floated is ‘Typed Python’. Forgive me, but that name sucks and has no character. A language invented while Clinton was President by a guy with one of the 3 coolest first names you can have, and named after a sketch comedy show deserves better than this.

Thus, I would like to propose a simpler name; one that is more ‘pythonic’ if you will. If we just exchange the positions of the “P” and the “T” we evoke the same idea (in addition to making it wonderfully Google-able) and get the name:

Typhon

EDIT: I failed to mention and have since learned that Typhon and Python both come from Greek Mythology—and both were serpant giants. Typhon battled Zeus and Python battled Apollo. Python was memorialized by having a big snake named after him. Typhon still awaits his big come up (which is why I have gathered you all here today). But given the natural association between them from mythology already, I really love how smoothly this all seems to go together from different angles.

An english speaker once told me they could hear a difference between 's' and 'sc' in 'seen' vs 'scene'. I don't know whether that's true or imagined. I'm curious about native spanish speakers' opinions of 'y' vs 'll'

Does gulf Arabic sound 'better' or posher than say the Egyptian Arabic dialect?

Are there still dialects being widely spoken in day-to-day life? or is it more common to speak standard Turkish in regular conversation?

and if the latter is the case, how much do local accents differ? do they differ to the point of impairing listening comprehension for natives? and for non-native intermediate speakers?

Im more interested in knowing HOW and WHY this became a commonly held ̶b̶e̶l̶i̶e̶f̶ idea and why it still persists. How hard is it to correct? Was there a point in history where we were taught that these were dialects and not fully-fledged languages?

My thoughts: Regardless if these variants are languages or not, for the average Filipino, another island's language isn't really too alien/foreign for them to call it another language, kahit na may distinct grammar and vocab. Our languages are all still closely related and have certain degrees intelligibility so using 'dialect' feels more inclusive.

The most obvious would be the presence of the cot-caught merger. Another one would probably be the presence of the "weak vowel merger" (I use [ɪ] and [ə] interchangeably in these positions)

I'm asking less about vocabulary and the pronunciation of individual words like caramel, but more about systemic sound differences.

Anyone from Koyikode, Kannur, and Kasrod? What are the general phonological shifts from standard Malayalam?

initial v -> b [vandi to bandi, vaa to baa, venda to benda, valiettan to baliettan]

zh -> y, g [azhikkara->Ayikkara, vazhudi ->bayidi or bagudi, vazhi to baiyi, kozhappam to koyipam]

These are some changes that I can recall on the top of my head. Are there more shifts in consonants? Also what are some major vowel shifts. Sorry if this topic is a little bit too dry.

https://github.com/typoes/harry-potter-gen-z/blob/main/book_1/chapter_1.md

It's coming to life. Help write Chapter 2?

Based on u/butterednutsquash's original post

I've had this idea for a while, and I'm posting it now. I hope I can post this here.

When I compare Moagilic English (MoE) to "regular English", the "regular English" will be General American English (GAmE).

Consonants

• unlike in GAmE, MoE's intervocalic [t d] don't turn into [ɾ]
• GAmE Post-Alveolar consonants are Retroflex in MoE
• [w] ⟨w⟩ and [ʍ] ⟨wh⟩ are differentiated in MoE.

Vowels

Vowel Comparison

Mergers:

• cot-caught: [ɔ]
• father-bother: [ɔ]
• bed-bad: [ɛ]

Example Sentence

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."

GAmE: [ðə ˈkwɪk bɹaʊn ˈfɔks ˈdʒʌmps oʊvəɹ ðə ˈleɪzi dɔg]

MoE: [ðə ˈkwɪk bɹoʊn ˈfɔks ˈɖʐəmps oʊvəɹ ðə ˈleɪzi dɔg]

Let me know if you have any more questions about this! :)