In which city/region of your country is the link between accent and social class especially marked?

[Daco Celtic]

I have. South Boston of today is full of wealthy yuppies who speak with very neutral accents, it has been gentrified as fuck. Good Will Hunting days are over. All of the alcoholic Irish Americans wearing wife beaters moved to the South Shore, there you will find the authentic spirit of Boston indeed.

Tragic. The displacement of Irish drunks is a crime.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Tragic. The displacement of Irish drunks is a crime.

It is. That's why you should never be banned.

[Graham]

Yeah so much for the bullshit myth, perpetuated not least by Scottish independence activists, that Scotland is a much more egalitarian culture than England.

Not much more egalitarian but if you look at the backgrounds of politicians who lead in England compared to Scotland and if you compare their upbringings and status.

It's a legit thing to discuss.

[El_Jibaro]

Tragic. The displacement of Irish drunks is a crime.

Indeed jaja

[Roy]

Not really, albeit some grammatical errors can tell you than someone is from a lower class.

[Arūnas]

Not really, albeit some grammatical errors can tell you than someone is from a lower class.

Poland doesn't have many Żorż Ponimirski anymore, we have plenty of Nikodem Dyzma instead, even if with formal educational degree or something

[ixulescu]

Do Gypsies in Romania have their own ethnolect, or do they have the same regional accents as everyone else?

They do, to varying degrees. Some speak clear Romanian, others speak broken Romanian with a specific accent, and even a different thinner voice. Same thing in songs, they like the falsetto range a lot.

[ixulescu]

there is a specific intonation even among Bucharesters, the lower class, taxi drivers, market sellers having a very thick pronounced Bucharest-specific annoying (for the other regions) accent, even if they think of themselves of speaking more correctly than all others (they are quick to ask people of other regions "to speak Romanian" even if they understand 99% of the speech, but they don't like other regions' accent/intonation)

You're whining about nothing, everyone in Romania dislikes hard accents, but they tend to be very forgiving towards their own accent.

The only acceptable accent, beside the standard one from news broadcasts, is the Transylvanian accent, simply because it's funny. The rest of the accents - the thicker they are the more uneducated they sound.

One thing to note: there is an accent in Romania specific to the working class urban population, that is tied more to class rather than region. Bucharest taxi driver accent is good example of this - it's a common accent in Romania, not a regional one.

[Roy]

They do, to varying degrees. Some speak clear Romanian, others speak broken Romanian with a specific accent, and even a different thinner voice. Same thing in songs, they like the falsetto range a lot.

Do they not speak Romani? Here nearly all Gypsies use Romani.

[ixulescu]

Do they not speak Romani? Here nearly all Gypsies use Romani.

No, they don't. Most gypsies in Romania speak Romanian, sometimes with additional Romani vocabulary. Only a small percentage of gypsies can speak Romani without mixing it with Romanian - I don't remember the exact figure, but I think it's less than 20%. Gypsies that live in counties close to the borders might speak natively a different language than Romanian, like Hungarian or Turkish.

Only in the past 20 years, Romani knowledge has improved somewhat because it was introduced in schools. Nonetheless, Romani is rarely spoken in Romania - this is a vid promoting Romani use in Romania (people in it are gypsies, but some can pass for Romanians):