Additional context:
Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I’m in Europe, I’ve noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away…
In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just… understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it’s pretty incredible
Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn’t think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this…
I’m sure you’re mostly right, but man… for me, trying to understand standard ‘Ainglish’ informed with various Scots / Celtic / Irish / British brogue (and sometimes Australasia brogue) is even harder than understanding certain American backwoods Appalachian dialects. 😵💫
For example, what’s that modern show with the two twin, Irish, mobster brothers? (played by a single actor IIRC) I really do need an interpreter for that one, and various other series… oO