When certain sounds are iconic of things in the world, linguists call that *sound symbolism*.
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Not only to english speakers! My mom is from Hungary and she thought Swedish sounded like singing as well 😂.
IVE BEEN LOOKING FIR THIS WTF AND BEEN TRYING TO IMITATE IT
Who is Stitch?
God stockholmers are insufferable
Stockholm swedish sounds like that btw.. Not the entirety of Swedish lanuagua
A lot of dialects in Sweden which changes the way it sounds when Swedes talk english. But the language is slowly changing. Less dialects and some sounds are little more back in the mouth than our grandparents.
Saying "A falling tone" with a rising tone and vice versa is very funny.
And this particular girl have an accent thing called "Viby i-s", a very nasally "i" sound which is almost a sociolect. It is associated with Stockholmers, especially upper middle class originally, but named after a town in southern Sweden (I think)
fun to be a swede and learn things about swedish i’ve never known lol. never thought about the difference between anden vs anden, i’ve only thought about eg banan vs banan as something that must be really difficult to learn. some people expect immigrants to immediately learn the language but it’s so hard i’m not expecting anyone to learn this quickly💀
Who is Stitch?
MG, do you mean to tell the world that young modern swedes in general, has an accent like that, speaking english. Are you stark screaming mad?
.. As a Swede, I can say FOR SURE that my reply to this video is.. "Reaioooyyyyytt".
Who is Stitch in the first place?
The last example is not like you said
Abba 😅
Off topic but you resemble Jacksfilms strangely a lot 👀w
That's mostly Stockholm accent. Stockholmers speak the most corny English of all Swedes. Just like the girl in the video .
wtf
What is this "Stitch"?
Swedes sound like people who have been drinking all night…
Getting a non-native Swedish speaker to speak Swedish in a Stitch voice actually makes their non-native accent significantly less noticeable.
I think far too much is made of the so-called Swedish “pitch accent” as a differentiator of meaning. We actually have exactly the same phenomenon in English, yet we don’t think twice about it and we don’t feel the need to call it “pitch accent”. Compare how we say “differ” and “defer”; or “conquer” and “concur”. In each case, exactly the same phonemes, vowels, consonants. We signal the completely different meanings simply by stressing different syllables – and when we do so, we typically raise the tone of the syllable we’re stressing (even if subtly). Those examples don’t exactly replicate the Swedish double stress on words like “anden” (meaning “the spirit” or “the soul”). But English does have words that replicate that type of double-stress on consecutive syllables, even if we tend to do so across two monosyllabic words that are deployed together as a unit. Think of expressions like “full house”, or “hard cheese”, or “keep calm”. Maybe one example of English using “pitch accent” to differentiate meanings of otherwise similar sounding bisyllabic words, and using a double stress in one of the iterations, is “retake”. When it’s used as a noun meaning a re-recording, we stress the first syllable only, “Let’s do a RE-take”. When it’s used as a verb meaning to physically reclaim or reoccupy, we stress both syllables, “Let’s RE-TAKE the valley”.
Sounding like a cartoon character is 100% a Norwegian trait as well! 😂
Nah it’s the weird ‘back of the tongue is in the throat’ sound. That’s what’s causing this
Stitch from Lilo and Stitch? I really dont hear it
It’s really weird sounds like she’s talking thrugh her nose
TONE???
What is Stitch?!
Stitch? As in that weird Disney Alien?
Everything you say can also be applied to Norwegian, but Norwegian sounds fine.
I was going to say it's specifically dialects close to Stockholm, which have the Lidingö-i, but apparently there are dialects all over the country with this annoying buzz sound. To me it sounds more like a U than an I.