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But I think hearing him speak would help locate him and determine his educational/cultural background much more readily and perhaps accurately. Accents cannot always be conveyed in their entirety by the written word.
Hearing him speak would obviously help. However, accents and dialects are two different things. Dialects include the choice of words, word order and usage of regional colloquialisms. Thus they can be detected in a written post, an essay or a letter to a friend. I have a degree in linguistics and a long career as a writer. While that poster obviously frustrates you ...he intrigues me.
When some people can't take it anymore... a linguist wants more!
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Sorry, I'm not qualified. That would take a linguist who specializes in that part of the country. (Do you doubt there are linguists who can do that? I've met linguists who can can determine where someone grew up, right down to streets in a neighborhood, by listening to them recite childhood skip-rope rhymes. It's impressive. )
But if someone comes along and posts, "then this dude from spain named juan cabrillo sailed up the coast and made it all the way to frisco before turning around so he could discover catalina" shoot me a DM.
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