Comments | lapin_agile: Now ain't that the truth?

lapin_agile

Now ain't that the truth?

Apr 29, 2011 17:28

About the accent, at least.

And such a polite way of putting it, though I'd have left out the bit about the importance of national identity altogether. Because, really? Not so much.

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American ( Read more... )

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lapin_agile April 30 2011, 13:59:06 UTC

I've moved around my whole life, too, starting in childhood. I've got one parent from the midwest and one from Connecticut. And then memegen declined to ask the questions that would have gotten at the regional markers that are most relevant to my experience. (When you say 'aunt' does the vowel sound like the vowel in 'awe', 'bah', or 'cat'? Do you add a subtle or unsubtle 'r' to the second 'a' in 'Martha'?)

I did have to smile at the pin/pen question, since I was marked down on a spelling test (administered orally) right after moving to north Texas in the second grade. And then, when I told the teacher that I had spelled exactly the words she'd said and if she thought not, then she must have said the words 'ten' and 'pen' incorrectly? Then I lost citizenship points for sassing the teacher.

sang_dencre April 30 2011, 04:29:35 UTC

I got New York City - lol. Never even been to America except for a 7 hour stop-over.
:D

lapin_agile April 30 2011, 14:02:09 UTC

Seems about right for NYC: if it wasn't making an effort to distinguish the accents of one borough from another, then 'New York City' might as well mean 'Departures Lounge at JFK International'.

gwendolyngrace May 1 2011, 22:07:10 UTC

Mine was spot-on - Northern (I grew up with a completely Inland North accent which I worked to soften to just a basic Northern one).

black_dog May 8 2011, 19:12:35 UTC

I was pleased to see that I still scored as a New Yorker (NYC) after years of exile in the interregional stew-pot of DC. We are precise in our vowels, and not lazy about diphthongs. But NYC is not really a clear category, since of course there are so many neighborhood and borough variants that can be vulgarly mistaken for the true speech. Still, I knew what they meant, which to a New Yorker is all that matters, right ( ... )