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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: Serbo-Croatian
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In article <3i68m5$fj4@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Marek1@ix.netcom.com (Marek Konski) writes:

>Yes. They can recognize each other as coming from different areas if 
>only their pronunciations are different. The peculiarities in the 
>vocabularies can be quite few but distinct. This is true at least in the 
>case of my native language -- Polish. Some inhabitants of the eastern 
>part of Warsaw (but not only they and not newcomers) can be recognized 
>in this way. In Italy, 10 miles from Rome, people say that they can 
>recognize in this way somebody living in a neighboring locality.
Oh, yes. In the Netherlands, cities with distances of about 10 to 15 
kilometers have quite distinct pronounciation peculiarities, even if all those 
people do their best to speak "standard Dutch" (ABN=algemeen beschaafd 
nederlands, literally General Civilized Dutch). Examples: Arnhem, Zevenaar, 
Nijmegen. Rotterdam-Den Haag, and many many others).
