Comments | phlogiston_5: Bull Dinkies!

phlogiston_5

Bull Dinkies!

Nov 01, 2006 20:30

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Northeast

Philadelphia

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phlogiston_5 November 2 2006, 04:25:09 UTC

Why? Its not humungous on my friends page. Splart.

starspray13 November 2 2006, 01:18:43 UTC

i got the same one. i thought it was strange that they didn't account for the way that a lot of new jersians (including me) make any word with an a in the middle of it sound like it's an aw.

chipmunkkc November 2 2006, 01:37:11 UTC

That's why South Jersey's better.

we're more philly.

starspray13 November 2 2006, 03:39:45 UTC

philly sucks. it's a wanna be new york.

chipmunkkc November 2 2006, 11:01:09 UTC

lol yeah right, philly people hate new yorkers...we were here first.

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zeromh November 2 2006, 08:39:57 UTC

Woot! I got Philly! I don't know what other choices there were, so I don't know how accurate it is, but it just may be the closest choice to where I live. Still, I must object to the way they separated most questions into "different" and "maybe different." Either they're different or they're not. If people can't hear the differences, then too bad- they'll get inaccurate results.

phlogiston_5 November 2 2006, 15:56:28 UTC

I think thats just the inherent poopy-ness of assessing spoken characters with written descriptions. It didn't work for me. I've never even BEEN to Wisconsin.

zeromh November 3 2006, 01:13:52 UTC

...That's the only way to do those questions. If I say to you, "Do 'cot' and 'caught' sound different," I've kind of just influenced the results. And I don't see anything wrong with doing it written to begin with- the person says the two words to him/herself, and they're either different or they're not.

phlogiston_5 November 5 2006, 14:19:01 UTC

But its different than being given a list of the words, speaking them out loud, and having someone who has studied this concept evaluate the nuances. If they are making a written test about it, there must be actual research done on the subject, which means there must be someone out there who could distinguish these accents more accurately. Obviously there's something amiss in the written test because there is no way in hell I randomly developed an inland north accent. There's never only one way to test something.

I mean I did listen to some Garrison Keilor as a kid, but that shouldn't have that much of an influence. My mom has lived in NJ her whole life, and my dad has lived in new york, france, california, and briefly chicago. I saw my NJ relatives at least 10 times more than anyone not from NJ, and the ones from NJ were from the area near NYC, so they actually have a semblance of that jersey accent.