Been thinking about how much weight people put on accents and dialects when they judge someone. Like the whole idea that certain ways of speaking automatically make you sound smarter or rougher or more trustworthy I was reading about how in some places people have really intense opinions about regional speech patterns. Like how certain dialects get labeled as sophisticated while others get written off as uneducated or aggressive. Makes me wonder if thats a universal thing or just specific to certain cultures In the US we definitely have our own version of this. Southern accents get stereotyped one way, New York another way, California valley girl speak gets its own assumptions. Boston accents, midwest neutral, all that stuff What I'm curious about is whether people in other places experience this same kind of linguistic prejudice. Do you notice people making snap judgments about intelligence or personality based on how someone talks And if so what are the patterns where you are.…