{"id":82745,"date":"2022-07-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82745"},"modified":"2022-07-14T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:25:07","slug":"stuff-linguistics-geeks-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82745","title":{"rendered":"Stuff Linguistics Geeks Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Linguists determine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2006\/08\/23\/cows_have_accents\/\">cattle in the UK develop local accents<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In a major breakthrough in bovine linguistic research, experts have confirmed that cows moo with accents distinct to their herd, the BBC reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>John Wells, professor of Phonetics at the University of London, examined West Country farmers&#8217; claims that their beasts were mooing with a local twang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And the &#8220;twang&#8221; is, the researchers say, influenced by the local human dialect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accent noted is that of Somerset &#8211; in the West of England.  Where, as Jimmy Carr notes, if you want to nail the accent, just sound like a pirate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"British Accents: West Country\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahznvtDunEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this work in America?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, I can&#8217;t be the only one wondering of Kamala <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linguists determine cattle in the UK develop local accents: In a major breakthrough in bovine linguistic research, experts have confirmed that cows moo with accents distinct to their herd, the BBC reports. John Wells, professor of Phonetics at the University of London, examined West Country farmers&#8217; claims that their beasts were mooing with a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82757,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82745\/revisions\/82757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}