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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I understand the question.

    Oh good! 😮‍💨

    OP is asking what the English variations there are throughout the world.

    Then why did she ask about Norwegian? Why did she say “of your language” rather than English? Why did she answer my question by saying she means dialects from the Americas?

    I am curious if Jamaican Patois would count as a different language entirely

    There’s no academic/formal definition of what counts as a different language rather than a variant. Then it gets politically contested: peoples who want to assert their separatedness claim their language is totally different (e.g. Ulster Scots). That’s one reason if you ask “How many languages are there in the world?”, linguists tell ya “Between 4000 and 8000”







  • There’s not enough information in the top meme to know what theories it’s about.

    Things vibrate in a way that isn’t obvious to an unexamined view. If I look at a pebble, it appears to be non-vibratory, still. But a mystic or scientist who has really investigated it closely, exposed it to close analysis, can tell you that the reality of the pebble is vibration, not stillness.