When researching a variety of Norwegian spoken by some people in the Midwest known as “norst” or American Norwegian, someone commented that it was like the Quebecois of Norwegian.

My native language is English and I am American though, so I guess my own dialect of English would be the Quebecois of my language, or Canadian English too.

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    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”

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      OP asked about “your language” in the title, and in the body asks about English, which is my language. So to me she’s asking about English, but to you she’s asking about whatever else you speak.

      Maybe you are missing the context that there was another popular post on the threadiverse recently about an American dialect of norgweigian in the American Midwest.