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Title: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 04:58:11 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

Would be cool to see the Euro's take the quiz too, seems to be pretty accurate for 'muricans.

It pegged me 100% accurately (I'm from Minneapolis/St Paul)

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Post by: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:14:47 pm
Taking it now :D some of the questions are hard to answer. you have a word for the day before halloween? O.o and stuff like drive through liquor store :D and you apparently have names for bits of grass next to a road etc that ive never thought of or heard of, roads are different names but lets see what it says.

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Answers
the devil is beating his wife and the wolf is giving birth <--- wtf lol


http://nyti.ms/KiXt05

From Kent England :P



Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 05:19:33 pm
Makes sense it would see you being from that area of the the US if you're from England.  I've heard people speak who grew up in NY, but moved to Boston for years, come to where I live and they sound like they are English :P

Yeah some of the questions are weird.  I've never heard of a drive through liquor store, and we don't have a name for the day before halloween where I'm from.  In a lot of places in the country on a suburban street, it will be road, then a strip of grass, then a sidewalk, and then the grass in the main part of your yard.  We never had a name for that little strip of grass.

The first 15 or 30 feet in your yard (at least in the state I live in) is called the easement, and the city technically owns it, even if you are responsible for the upkeep.

Some of the possible answers they had were definitely rofl worthy. 
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:21:34 pm
yeah the Mary Merry and Marry apparently is only red in that tiny dot that is new york lol
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 05:22:21 pm
I pronounce all 3 the same, I believe the answer that I choose is what the majority of the US did (most of the country was red)
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Laufknoten on December 31, 2013, 05:24:58 pm
I'm from North Carolina according to this test. Greensboro to be more precise but pretty much the whole area was dark red.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 05:25:37 pm
Quote from: Laufknoten on December 31, 2013, 05:24:58 pm
I'm from North Carolina according to this test. Greensboro to be more precise but pretty much the whole area was dark red.

Where are you actually from?
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:26:06 pm
I can see how Mary and Merry can sound similar but Marry and Mary? :D Interesting how it varies so much in one country let alone across the pond
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Laufknoten on December 31, 2013, 05:29:07 pm
Quote from: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 05:25:37 pm
Where are you actually from?
Cologne, Germany.  :D
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Post by: Utrakil on December 31, 2013, 05:33:22 pm
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Well I am from germany. guess I haven't met enough people from central US.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 05:37:14 pm
Quote from: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:26:06 pm
I can see how Mary and Merry can sound similar but Marry and Mary? :D Interesting how it varies so much in one country let alone across the pond

How do you pronounce Marry?  Is the vowel the same way you'd pronounce something like "tar"?
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Leesin on December 31, 2013, 05:40:24 pm
Quote from: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:14:47 pm
Taking it now :D some of the questions are hard to answer. you have a word for the day before halloween? O.o and stuff like drive through liquor store :D and you apparently have names for bits of grass next to a road etc that ive never thought of or heard of, roads are different names but lets see what it says.

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Answers
the devil is beating his wife and the wolf is giving birth <--- wtf lol


http://nyti.ms/KiXt05

From Kent England :P

I got exactly the same, from Essex, http://nyti.ms/KiZo4E.

I did another test like this a while ago and it had the same result, it makes sense considering the British colonies were all up the east coast and populated by the English. The further you go west, the further you go into a mish mash of dialects and accents crafted from all kinds of europeans mixing with the British.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:41:10 pm
I pronounce it like this guy (he is a bit of a douche) 18 seconds is when he says them all. The women too (psst heskey nub that link just goes back to the website ^^)

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Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Macropus on December 31, 2013, 05:41:27 pm
I seem to be from either Baltimor, Washington DC or Richmond. Not bad.  :D
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:43:21 pm
there was a little thing where it said share :D
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Post by: SixThumbs on December 31, 2013, 05:46:13 pm
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Osiris on December 31, 2013, 05:50:36 pm
Quote from: Leesin on December 31, 2013, 05:40:24 pm
I got exactly the same, from Essex, http://nyti.ms/KiZo4E.

I did another test like this a while ago and it had the same result, it makes sense considering the British colonies were all up the east coast and populated by the English. The further you go west, the further you go into a mish mash of dialects and accents crafted from all kinds of europeans mixing with the British.

To be honest lizard man said it best :D
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the second you put roundabout, shit knows you from the uk :D
so probably puts us all in that corner
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on December 31, 2013, 05:53:04 pm
I call em roundabouts as well, apparently I'm the only cultured swine in the USA (pretty sure the whole country was blue on that answer).

*EDIT* Actually retook the quiz and most of the country calls them that
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Christo on December 31, 2013, 06:03:40 pm
For me it's always some west coast city like Los Angeles, Glendale, Long Beach, or Honolulu.

da fek?  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Franke on December 31, 2013, 06:18:29 pm
Made the test twice (to have some different questions). The one location that popped up twice was Santa Clarita, CA.

Doesn't make much sense if you're not a native speaker of course, but it's really funny and some of the words are really interesting (a drive-through liquor store? I still can't believe it)
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Christo on December 31, 2013, 06:22:10 pm
Yeah the drive-through liqour store was a big O_O from me as well.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Franke on December 31, 2013, 06:26:06 pm
Quote from: Christo on December 31, 2013, 06:22:10 pm
Yeah the drive-through liqour store was a big O_O from me as well.

Indeed. On the other hand, selling alcohol at gas stations (and I'm not talking of beer) is not that much of a difference...
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Grumbs on December 31, 2013, 06:38:44 pm
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Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Nehvar on December 31, 2013, 08:07:49 pm
http://nyti.ms/JshGjQ (http://nyti.ms/JshGjQ)

I live in central Maine so that's pretty accurate.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: AntiBlitz on December 31, 2013, 08:17:24 pm
Quote from: Utrakil on December 31, 2013, 05:33:22 pm
Well I am from germany. guess I haven't met enough people from central US.

Quote from: Macropus on December 31, 2013, 05:41:27 pm
I seem to be from either Baltimor, Washington DC or Richmond. Not bad.  :D

get out of my state!

mine was accurate to a degree, however my county in particular is rather rural, and has quite alot of similarities with the south.  Where as if you were to drive east or west, you would drive in to counties which are much closer to cities, and they end up having such talk.  My county is also very republican in a rather democratic state, though like i said that has more to do with the counties culture.  Its why my county was given the nickname Ceciltucky, rather then its original name of Cecil. 

So in turn, i could see the inaccuracy coming through lol, but it was close enough, kind of funny though, considering most of those words were interchangeable, like lightning bug/firefly.  Also, really, nobody calls it sunshowers? or summershowers?  just us i guess lol.

http://nyti.ms/1k4OM9O
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Post by: Artyem on December 31, 2013, 08:38:25 pm
http://nyti.ms/KjfgnY

I live in Shitville, Washington, so it's not too far off, I guess.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Herkkutatti666 on December 31, 2013, 08:39:20 pm
New York, Yonkers or Jersey city

Really from Finland
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Post by: LordBerenger on December 31, 2013, 08:41:58 pm
Buffalo, Milwaukee or Aurora
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Post by: Rumblood on December 31, 2013, 09:24:48 pm
Fairly close, from Northwest Florida and spent 20 years in Texas, so a guess of Alabama/Mississippi isn't too far off I reckon.

http://nyti.ms/1k4XCoh (http://nyti.ms/1k4XCoh)
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 31, 2013, 09:36:34 pm
I got Santa Rosa, Modesto and Reno.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on December 31, 2013, 10:02:10 pm
Me: http://nyti.ms/Kjlkgd I have lived in NY state my whole life. It gave me California cities but NY is red so not too far off.

My significant lifemate: http://nyti.ms/JsyabE lived here since age 1.

Also we don't have drive through liquor stores here. I was as surprised as you EU guys. Each state has its own alcohol laws.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Scervo on December 31, 2013, 10:28:23 pm
Heh I had an argument with a friend about one of those questions like two days ago, the difference between "frosting" and "icing" (we're from different states).

It did get my city right, cool quiz.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: SixThumbs on January 01, 2014, 12:15:43 am
http://nyti.ms/1k5s6X8

Was fairly close, I live a bit further north east though.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Kafein on January 01, 2014, 03:36:26 am
This test is pretty stupid for people that don't have a mother language level in english. I absolutely had to answer "baguette" at some point.

I lost the image but I roughly had Wisconsin and New York blue.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Osiris on January 01, 2014, 04:07:00 am
Quote from: Kafein on January 01, 2014, 03:36:26 am
This test is pretty stupid for people that don't have a mother language level in english. I absolutely had to answer "baguette" at some point.

I lost the image but I roughly had Wisconsin and New York blue.

to be fair we call them Baguettes in England :D
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: smals98 on January 01, 2014, 06:55:59 am
From McAlester(as marked on the map). It was really close actually.
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Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 01, 2014, 11:48:25 pm
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Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Tomas_Miles_again on January 02, 2014, 05:16:48 am
Honolulu, Glendale, San Jose. From South East London, middle class upbringing.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Lemon on January 02, 2014, 08:01:30 am
Wow, got me just a few miles off, NJ Newark/Paterson Area :o
http://nyti.ms/1dViTZU
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Post by: Torben on January 02, 2014, 08:37:42 am
kansas city,  overland park,  orlando. 

went to an american elementary school in germany,  so I got a mix of all dialects when I learnt it. 
never liked anything british sounding as a kid though,  so I ignored any words sounding like that ^^
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: WITCHCRAFT on January 02, 2014, 09:53:35 am
It's really interesting to see what kind of English 'accent' ESL people have based on this US-centric test.
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Post by: Teeth on January 02, 2014, 10:27:35 am
Am I the only one who is really weirded out by the concept of drive-through liquor stores?
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Post by: Dach on January 02, 2014, 11:02:11 am
I really fuckep up that program!  :lol: I would be a good chameleon in the States  :wink:

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Guess being a french american might have to do with it.

I'm from Quebec, QC, Canada.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: SixThumbs on January 02, 2014, 03:37:38 pm
Quote from: Teeth on January 02, 2014, 10:27:35 am
Am I the only one who is really weirded out by the concept of drive-through liquor stores?

It was odd to me when I went out west, they also sold liquor and beer in pharmacies.

My state also had some blue laws up until recently where we couldn't buy booze on Sundays or after 8pm, although we still can't buy it after 4pm. I found out yesterday I guess you still can't buy it on certain holidays.
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Post by: Lemon on January 02, 2014, 06:31:45 pm
Quote from: WarLord on January 02, 2014, 11:19:24 am
I'm from Jersey City or New York.  :mrgreen:
That's where you want to be from trust me! ;D
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: BASNAK on January 02, 2014, 06:38:33 pm
New York, Modesto and Reno. I didn't have words for most of the questions however.
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Post by: StormFaction on January 02, 2014, 06:40:18 pm
Lexington, Louisville, and Arlington for me, not suuuuper accurate as I'm in philly, but close enough :P
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Grumpy_Nic on January 02, 2014, 07:06:52 pm
I'm from Honolulu, Long Beach or Glendale...
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Lemon on January 02, 2014, 07:08:59 pm
You guys don't have a word for the night before Halloween? It's mischief night, everyone goes out and vandalizes something or like shoots random people with bb guns, or toilet paper tps houses... at least in NJ
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Post by: Rumblood on January 02, 2014, 07:47:20 pm
Quote from: Lemon on January 02, 2014, 07:08:59 pm
You guys don't have a word for the night before Halloween? It's mischief night, everyone goes out and vandalizes something or like shoots random people with bb guns, or toilet paper tps houses... at least in NJ

Oh that night? We call that "Rock salt in the shotgun night" in the south.  :twisted:
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Clockworkkiller on January 02, 2014, 09:34:32 pm
Newark, Yonkers and Baltimore, wut?
Was expecting some combination of PA and MD cities

I'm from Baltimore, so I guess it's correct.
When I was young I spent a lot of time up in cape may, NJ, so I guess that's how Newark showed up?

Don't know where NY came from


Probelm was I used a lot of these terms interchangeably, and the quiz didn't let me select multiple answers.
I seem to pick up accents and dialects quickly
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on January 02, 2014, 10:56:36 pm
Apparently all over the place mostly concentrated on the west coast and New York

http://nyti.ms/1dXzg8h

I'm Finnish.
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Post by: Bulzur on January 03, 2014, 12:03:50 am
http://nyti.ms/1kcQohU


I haven't met a lot of 'muricans, but i now know where they came from.


I was a bit taken aback by some questions, where i didn't even have a word in my native language (french).
Was fun.
Title: Re: See where this quiz thinks you're from (based on linguistics)
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on January 03, 2014, 05:23:59 pm
Quote from: Rumblood on January 02, 2014, 07:47:20 pm
Oh that night? We call that "Rock salt in the shotgun night" in the south.  :twisted:

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Post by: Lemon on January 03, 2014, 05:27:20 pm
+1 for kill bill :D
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Post by: Alec on January 03, 2014, 06:03:54 pm
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Any other Belgians ended up there?
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Post by: Jack1 on January 03, 2014, 06:28:18 pm
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I'll give you a hint. I'm not south eastern.

It also picked those cities based off of questions that I couldn't answer...