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Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Seagoon on May 03, 2005, 03:56:21 PM
What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/)

Well after being born in the UK, growing up in NJ, and then spending several years in the south. I apparently speak Mongrolian:

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

- SEAGOON
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Fishu on May 03, 2005, 04:05:39 PM
Finglish
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: JB73 on May 03, 2005, 04:10:47 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Octavius on May 03, 2005, 04:12:12 PM
80% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern


Huh?  10% upper midwestern (yooper), and 0% midwestern.  The logic is hurting my brain.  I saw nothing resembling Midwestern in there.  Water fountain... no bubbler!?

Fools! :cool:
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 03, 2005, 04:12:27 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: JB73 on May 03, 2005, 04:13:52 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Octavius
Water fountain... no bubbler!?  
i was looking at that question thinking "how do i answer this" neither is correct LMAO

there were a few like that
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Nuke33 on May 03, 2005, 04:18:00 PM
Quote
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


I got the same
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Nilsen on May 03, 2005, 04:18:08 PM
45% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: CyranoAH on May 03, 2005, 04:18:26 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
35% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: mora on May 03, 2005, 04:34:47 PM
50% General American English   
30% Yankee   
5% Dixie   
5% Upper Midwestern   
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Toad on May 03, 2005, 04:37:01 PM
50% General American English
30% Dixie
20% Yankee

....y'all.


Hey, Mora...what's your other 10%?
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Shuckins on May 03, 2005, 04:38:20 PM
60% Dixie
40% Leggern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Nilsen on May 03, 2005, 04:43:24 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Toad
50% General American English
30% Dixie
20% Yankee

....y'all.


Hey, Mora...what's your other 10%?



rubbish




 :p
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: NUKE on May 03, 2005, 04:44:53 PM
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: 1K3 on May 03, 2005, 04:45:32 PM
60%  formal (American) english
20% ebonics with style!
20% Spanglish (just general phrases like Hola!)

:)
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: lasersailor184 on May 03, 2005, 04:46:47 PM
That was a really weak linguistics test.



There's one floating around out there that can tell you where you're from if you take it.  It's really good too.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: mora on May 03, 2005, 04:46:50 PM
Yep Nilsen. :) I couldn't answer 2 of the questions:

7. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:

10. What do you call an easy class?
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Halo on May 03, 2005, 04:47:56 PM
Can spend an afternoon taking all those polls.  Some seem incisive, some off the mark.  

As for American English, I tied Nuke:

75% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

0% Midwestern -- which is really funny since I lived my first 21 years in Indiana.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Swoop on May 03, 2005, 04:55:30 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
35% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

And I'm British.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/209_1081438631_swoop.gif)
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: soda72 on May 03, 2005, 04:59:19 PM
70% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Nilsen on May 03, 2005, 05:03:28 PM
Quote
Originally posted by mora
Yep Nilsen. :) I couldn't answer 2 of the questions:

7. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:

10. What do you call an easy class?


7. stripper

10.  working class woman with a drug problem
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Wolfala on May 03, 2005, 05:13:22 PM
55% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


For the record, they really need a spot for Brooklynese.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: GtoRA2 on May 03, 2005, 05:13:39 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Trell on May 03, 2005, 05:14:51 PM
70% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Yankee
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Saurdaukar on May 03, 2005, 05:37:27 PM
65% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: spitfiremkv on May 03, 2005, 05:38:12 PM
85% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
 

yikes..I guess Florida don't count as South!
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: RightF00T on May 03, 2005, 05:39:48 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
30% Ebonics
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: midnight Target on May 03, 2005, 05:42:08 PM
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Weird.. born and raised in California. My wife is a Yooper though. It musta rubbed off.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 03, 2005, 05:59:32 PM
What is a Yooper?
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Gunslinger on May 03, 2005, 06:04:04 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
85% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


Interesting because I was born and raised in the midwest.  The Dixie part is right from living in Texas and having much of my family from Georgia.

I think the thing that did it was the fact that I call it Soda.....my mom allways called it pop and that annoyed me.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on May 03, 2005, 06:05:50 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
35% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Hangtime on May 03, 2005, 06:18:51 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern

Born' n raised in The San Fernando Valley (LA), Lived in Maine for 5 years, been in NY (Long Island) for the last 25 years.

...and I don't have an accent. Which really pisses people off around here for some reason.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Octavius on May 03, 2005, 06:24:35 PM
Quote
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
What is a Yooper?


Michigan!  Upper Peninsula > UP > Uper > Yooper.  :)
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Steve on May 03, 2005, 06:38:46 PM
Those guys that do the yooper comedy are frickin funny.  I have their tape permanently in my cassette player on the pontoon boat in Northern Wisconsin.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Steve on May 03, 2005, 06:42:31 PM
80% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee


Makes since to me since I grew up in Illinois and Minnesota.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: SkyWolf on May 03, 2005, 06:45:30 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Florida

Woof
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: majic on May 03, 2005, 06:51:49 PM
55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Meatwad on May 03, 2005, 06:57:13 PM
75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Maverick on May 03, 2005, 07:46:19 PM
75% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern


I can't be speaking General English. I only made it to LTC.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 03, 2005, 08:01:33 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Octavius
Michigan!  Upper Peninsula > UP > Uper > Yooper.  :)


You mean they are like the people in movie Fargo?
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: kevykev56 on May 03, 2005, 08:02:54 PM
45% Dixie
35% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern



Hmm, Guess they aint to many Ya'll from the South.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: ASTAC on May 03, 2005, 09:39:09 PM
65% General American English
25% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

I'm From Florida so This is no suprize..only southern state that is so full of everybody else that we don't have alot of Dixiespeak.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Sandman on May 03, 2005, 09:41:10 PM
65% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Holden McGroin on May 03, 2005, 09:50:40 PM
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee

Since Midwestern is Elko, Upper Midwestern must be Boise.

Anything east of Butte is New York.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: 1K3 on May 03, 2005, 10:17:01 PM
ok the actual test

60% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

is "Dixie" a southern accent/language?
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: DieAz on May 03, 2005, 10:45:50 PM
that thar test ain't hittin on much.
most the answers, in the choices, ain't no wheres near right.


and its yall, ain't no '  (potstirfee) in it.

the Yanks that try to say it, can't never git it rite.

en aye once almos kilt a bare. I did seen it, but didn' git a shot off.

and if Heaven, ain't like Dixie. I ain't a going.      




:p
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Sandman on May 03, 2005, 11:53:03 PM
Quote
Originally posted by 1K3

is "Dixie" a southern accent/language?


I assume so... of course, one has to have a bit of "dixie" accent to recognize all the different variants. ;)


I wonder though... what does a "yankee" accent sound like.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Nash on May 03, 2005, 11:58:01 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
I wonder though... what does a "yankee" accent sound like.


New England would be my guess. Practically unintelligible until ya get a feel for it.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: rpm on May 04, 2005, 12:07:22 AM
100% Texan
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Heretik on May 04, 2005, 12:09:03 AM
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie

there was a few i wish i'd been able to say "neither."

i don't say "tennis shoes" or "sneakers" i say "shoes."  exceptionally large, sturdy shoes are "boots."
an easy class is just that. "easy."
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Holden McGroin on May 04, 2005, 02:12:09 AM
Quote
Originally posted by DieAz
... and if heaven ain't like Dixie. I ain't a going.      


Just a small trivia note, the song "Dixie" was written by a Daniel Decatur Emmett, born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  He wrote it while in New York.

Dixie is a yankee song.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Cerceuilvolant on May 04, 2005, 04:36:17 AM
Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
40% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: beet1e on May 04, 2005, 04:48:04 AM
Bit of a stupid test, as no provision was made for Cockney, Estuary English or Queen's English - or Received Pronunciation.

Toodle Pip.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Dinger on May 04, 2005, 04:57:37 AM
5% General American English
10% Incomprehensible Academic Jargon
85% Drunk
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Shane on May 04, 2005, 06:02:11 AM
Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: JBA on May 04, 2005, 08:03:59 AM
Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: mosgood on May 04, 2005, 10:02:22 AM
75% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: JB73 on May 04, 2005, 10:20:22 AM
Quote
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
You mean they are like the people in movie Fargo?
actually fargo is nothing like that, even north minnesota isn't quite that hick.

only upper penninusla is truly that hick the way they act, talk, dress, everything

my mother was 100% sweedish, born and raised up there, and i have spent enough time to verify this, "upnort" is what fargo was based on

ya der hey

the closest to the lifestyle i have seen depicted in the movies is "grumpy old men" but that was still a bit too "city-ized" for upnort
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: midnight Target on May 04, 2005, 10:27:05 AM
Quote
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
You mean they are like the people in movie Fargo?


My wife was disgusted by the stereotyping in 'Fargo'. I thought is was funny as hell. Yes her sisters and parents sound just like those people. eh?
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: bob149 on May 04, 2005, 12:44:21 PM
I speak the queen's english !!!
For the rest of you colonial chapies from   the usa!!!!!!!!!
You owe us rent on the language back dated to 1776 !!!!!
Teach u to throw the bloody tea in a river !!!!hahahahaha
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: DieAz on May 04, 2005, 01:29:16 PM
Quote
Originally posted by bob149
I speak the queen's english !!!
For the rest of you colonial chapies from   the usa!!!!!!!!!
You owe us rent on the language back dated to 1776 !!!!!
Teach u to throw the bloody tea in a river !!!!hahahahaha


IIRC, it was a vote between German and English language. only one vote made it English.

IMO, that is the only reason, Brits are speaking English today.

actually, it is through luck, English is still used.
considering the Queen's family line, comes from old Norse speakers. by the way of Normans, in 1066 A.D. when William the Conqueror invaded. and by the way of Norse when Normandy was invaded by Rollo in 300 A.D.
not to mention, the period of time the Brits were ruled by the Romans (Latin).
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: TheDudeDVant on May 04, 2005, 02:43:58 PM
45% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern


Dixie is a Hank Jr song!
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Elfie on May 04, 2005, 03:05:08 PM
80% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern



I grew up in the Midwest (Nebraska) yet I dont speak any Midwestern? :lol
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Siaf__csf on May 04, 2005, 03:14:40 PM
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Dowding on May 04, 2005, 03:31:09 PM
Not sure of your point, DieAz.

English evolved from Germanic languages influenced in turn with Latin and Norse, and some French. English wasn't 'lucky' to develop; it simply did develop from these influences. It is the direct result of their mingling.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Wotan on May 04, 2005, 03:37:01 PM
Quote
Not sure of your point, DieAz


He's referring to the American myth that the United States chose its official language (English) by one vote over German.

It's completely nonsense by the way. I made that same claim a while ago on this board. After looking more deeply into it it proved to be totally false. I am not going dig up the thread (it's maybe 4 years old) but any one who looks into this claim seriously will see its just not true.
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Silat on May 05, 2005, 03:34:44 AM
Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Naso on May 05, 2005, 03:48:29 AM
45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: straffo on May 05, 2005, 04:06:32 AM
Your Linguistic Profile:
0% General American English
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee
0% Dixie


and 100% Ze FrEnch !
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: Monk on May 05, 2005, 04:35:09 AM
Your Linguistic Profile:
100% Yankee
0% General American English
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Dixie
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: SKJohn on May 05, 2005, 07:27:55 PM
80% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee


And here I thought my mama learned me to spoke gooder english than most people.....
Title: What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Post by: spitfiremkv on May 06, 2005, 05:04:18 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Cerceuilvolant
Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
40% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern



too many American movies? (check location LOL)