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Originally Posted by StonerPenguin
Hehe, Although I think Tsugaru is more different from Standard Japanese than Cajun is from Standard English
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That was my impression too. I maybe able to somewhat understand Cajun if I live there for a while, but 津軽弁 sounds even worse.
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Originally Posted by StonerPenguin
BTW, just out of curiosity; Are accents bad with older Japanese people?
Here in the southern US, often older people (heck, not even that 'old' -- 40-year-old+ people) are nearly impossible to understand. Just tonight, I went to a meeting and there was this guy in his 50's was trying to talk to me and I just got tired of asking him "What?" so I just nodded my head and pretended to understand him :/ This is a sadly common phenomenon, so does this happen with older people in Japan too?
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Definitely. Some younger people from 東北 for example say they don't even understand their own grand parents sometimes.