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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5059 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 57 of 74 20 February 2013 at 5:29am | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
Your Result: The Northeast 97% Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak. http://www.memegen.net/view/show/2313 New York City. You are most definitely from New York City. Not New Jersey, not Connecticut. If you are from Jersey then you can probably get into New York City in 10 minutes or less. I did grow up in New York City, so there you go! But what I actually have is a Russian accent. :P Edited by espejismo on 20 February 2013 at 5:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4897 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 58 of 74 20 February 2013 at 6:18am | IP Logged | ||
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We might have to change it to "What continental American accent do you have?" Because
it seems to work for the mainland, but put a friend from the Virgin Islands as "Boston" and my Hawaiian co-workers as "Mid-Atlantic." Total fail for both. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Illusion Newbie United States Joined 4332 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 59 of 74 20 February 2013 at 7:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I got the "Midland" accent, odd because I'm living in and grew up in "the West". Then
again, I do say a few words differently than my friends. It's probably due to my mother learning English on the East Coast and me learning many words by reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stephen7878 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4789 days ago 34 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Greek, Italian | Message 60 of 74 20 February 2013 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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"Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal
surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta." I'm from the Texas border so it pretty much hit me spot on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tedmac278 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4308 days ago 23 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Estonian | Message 61 of 74 20 February 2013 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
My ex girlfriend swore that she didn't have a southern accent even though some words were GLARINGLY southern, but she just couldn't hear it. The one I remember distictly was "down" she said like "dehown". Any word with a "-oun-" type sound in it. But who knows what words you say that it's picking up on! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4676 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 62 of 74 20 February 2013 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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''What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West 96% Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.'' I've never been to the US, but my uncle lives in St. John's, Nefoundland, Canada, and I have visited him five times (the 1st time I stayed for 6 months). So, if you have low back merger and no Canadian raising (St. John's,Vancouver, Victoria don't have it), you will get ''Western US'' as a result. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4696 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 63 of 74 21 February 2013 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for reviving this thread, and for citing to the alternative at memegen.net (which addresses the absence of
necessary options, e.g. in the question about the 'marrys')! I've always wanted to know what I sound like, having lived all over (US military bases abroad, and all up and down the Acela corridor in the Northeast, and watching lots of BBC and SKY as a kid). It looks like the general consensus is "somewhere in the North/Northeast," which I can believe, I guess. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5071 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 64 of 74 21 February 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow, totally off the mark. I've been raised in Texas since I was three. Ironically enough, The South was the last ranking they had for me. - Kat 1 person has voted this message useful |
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