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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hazard Time on January 06, 2014, 04:39:22 PM
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So recently my russian teacher introduced me to this online dialect survey made by Harvard University students and published in the New York Times. It asks you 25 questions along the lines of "What do you call..." and "How do you pronounce..." certain items. It then compares your answers and shows you cities in the US that have similar dialects.
Try it here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0)
Here's my result:
(http://i.imgur.com/oBvMQst.png)
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my result was san jose, corona and some other place in california even though i'm from glasgow (the scottish one)
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Mine:
(http://i.imgur.com/MOjfIkM.png)
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http://nyti.ms/1hruDJ6
my favourite US city is most similar yay even though i live in england lol
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It was mainly just red on the west coast and just a little bit in the very middle.
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http://nyti.ms/1cJqB75
but i live in florida idk
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What. That wasn't the chart I had. Fixed.
Right on. I'm from Michigan. Family comes from all over the state.
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http://nyti.ms/1hrJZNO
Makes sense, I am from around Seattle.
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http://nyti.ms/1cJqB75
but i live in florida idk
ggggggtttttttt damn fuycking hell bitch shit
damn me canada and it says east coast i was born on east coast makes sense i guess
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(http://puu.sh/6cHex.png)
Mine constantly changed from a bit of red to ENTIRELY blue. :P
Non-American FTW!
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Non-American FTW!
YEAH!
Mine was mostly blue
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Did it a couple of times and it places me somewhere along the east coast / bit in land
My English accent is more Austrian/some sort of that than it is danish though
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it made my map all blue for most questions but then suddenly changed it at the end to very west coast/mid west coast so yeah
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Got me to my exact town(new rochelle) [outaide if NYC] that shits accurate
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Got me to my exact town(new rochelle) [outaide if NYC] that shits accurate
First time I did it, it gave my hometown of Fremont, CA.
Did it a couple of times and it places me somewhere along the east coast / bit in land
Where on the east coast? I don't expect you to know states, so could you give me city names or northeast, central, or southeast?
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Got me to my exact town(new rochelle) [outaide if NYC] that shits accurate
First time I did it, it gave my hometown of Fremont, CA.
Did it a couple of times and it places me somewhere along the east coast / bit in land
Where on the east coast? I don't expect you to know states, so could you give me city names or northeast, central, or southeast?
It kinda moved around a bit and I cant really remember which states it put me on (i know the name of most states, just not exactly where they are) but most of the time it was like switching a bit between like the middle and further up
It marked New York like every time
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I'm from northern Connecticut, so this makes sense:
(http://puu.sh/6d1d9.png)
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(http://gyazo.com/6d88f70c33405a5dbd40b0a224a13083.png)
I'm from Illinois and I'm only 40 minutes away from Aurora :D
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http://nyti.ms/1esLnKW
I'm just so cultural I guess.
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http://nyti.ms/1esLnKW
I'm just so cultural I guess.
My mom got basically the entire northwestern half of the US, but I guess that comes from living in California with a Californian mother and a Minnesotan father.
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I'm to embarrassed to share mine... XD I must say that this is a cool site. Shared it with the guys as work. Funny as hell listening to their reactions.
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This is some funk yo, I'm from Florida but both my parents are originally from New York. Kjun I want to see yours pls.
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http://nyti.ms/1c2cVny im hispanic from florida.
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(http://icap.me/i/7YCgq3APbA.png)
im from chicago
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(http://puu.sh/7rMhi.jpg)
Hit the nail right on the head. Like, pin point. I live in Miami. :P
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http://nyti.ms/1fuLpRB
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http://nyti.ms/1fvUpFU (http://nyti.ms/1fvUpFU)
this is what i get for being australian
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http://nyti.ms/1dYDe3A
i live in oregon
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http://nyti.ms/1dYDe3A
i live in oregon
I live here, too, but I was born in California. Were you not born in Oregon or are your parents from out of state?
http://nyti.ms/1fvUpFU (http://nyti.ms/1fvUpFU)
this is what i get for being australian
That seems to be the trend for most of the non-North American Commonwealth english speakers. Supposedly, the Manhattan dialect is the only US dialect to retain any vestiges from the old colonial dialect (Back when we were still a British colony).