lnr's reaction to the dialect meme was to post a poll about what people call an individual small bread product.
I take your point about the UK responses to this meme, though I still found it very interesting reading people's answers, especially the additional commentary type things. I posted it on myself partly because for a couple of questions at least I did have answers that were different from any I'd seen on my own UK part of flist, and partly out of interest to see if I could pass it on to different parts of my flist so I could see their answers.
The question of the original meme I thought most relevant to dialect in the UK is the 'shoes for sports' one, as long as we can go back past trainers to the things we'd have worn at school esp when little and esp I expect for people above a certain age. I know what I called plimsolls, phina_v called daps, and other people call pumps (which in turn is interestingly rather different to what US folk mean by pumps.) Secondly would be the 'small body of water' one. I do agree that most of the others, from a UK point of view, are either obvious, or a commentary on the difference between UK and US practices, or more relevant to class than dialect - although of course there is some overlap between issues of class, dialect, and locale.
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Date: 2008-04-03 11:12 pm (UTC)I take your point about the UK responses to this meme, though I still found it very interesting reading people's answers, especially the additional commentary type things. I posted it on myself partly because for a couple of questions at least I did have answers that were different from any I'd seen on my own UK part of flist, and partly out of interest to see if I could pass it on to different parts of my flist so I could see their answers.
The question of the original meme I thought most relevant to dialect in the UK is the 'shoes for sports' one, as long as we can go back past trainers to the things we'd have worn at school esp when little and esp I expect for people above a certain age. I know what I called plimsolls,