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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden

Yeah, I know what you mean. I live in America, but I'd say we have over 150 official and 500+ unofficial dialects in this country if you will ranging from New Yorker (oh gads is that ever a fun one) to Southern, to East Coast, Northerner, Michiganer (yes, my state has its own form of english. hehe) texan, central us, west cost, northern west coast, alaskan, hawaiian, and of course the cultural versions of english coming from people of other countries like Ireland, Deutschland...er, Germany (opps), spanish, and many others. So don't feel bad. I may have lived in this country for 31 years, but if I go out of state, I tend to find that people tend to pick up different ways of saying things very easily.

Except for a few vocabulary differences, most of the dialect differences in America consist of pronunciation. Japanese dialects also vary in written form too, and constructs often change into different words all together (nai -> hen, etc).