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’’Which English’’ Game | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 17 of 40 04 June 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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native language guesses:
1. German 2. Finnish 3. English I picked "who whom kissed?" as acceptable because I love it :P And it correctly figured out that my native language has cases (yet I avoid the typical Russian mistakes) English dialects/variants: 1. vernacular 2. England 3. New Zealand Edited by Serpent on 04 June 2014 at 8:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 18 of 40 04 June 2014 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Guesses for English dialect:
1. English (England) 2. Scottish (UK) 3. Welsh (UK) Guesses for my native language: 1. English 2. Finnish 3. Hungarian They guessed right! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 19 of 40 04 June 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
If you click on the question mark at the end, it tells you that Singaporean is very close to the American standard (their assumption, not mine). I guess they are "training the algorithm" based on the replies to the last questions. You are a Norwegian living in England and answered a while ago. When rdearman (post #3) took the test, your "post-mortem" answers were already part of the database, and the algorithm had at least one Norwegian (probably more). So it said to rdearman (another immigrant) he might be Norwegian. Edited by Luso on 04 June 2014 at 8:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4327 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 20 of 40 04 June 2014 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My results:
English dialects: 1. English (England) 2. Welsh (UK) 3. Scottish (UK) I've actually learned British English at school, although I suppose there must be some Americanisms in my English too. Good! Guesses for native language: 1. Polish 2. Finnish 3. English That's totally wrong! :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 21 of 40 04 June 2014 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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As for Singaporean, many non-native speakers seem to get that as a result and I think it's because Singaporean English speakers accept features that are also accepted in different other varieties of English.
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4584 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 22 of 40 04 June 2014 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I got:
1. Irish (Republic of) 2. North Irish (UK) 3. Scottish (UK) Our top three guesses for your native (first) language: 1. English 2. Norwegian 3. Dutch It was pretty accurate for me; although I've always lived in England, my Mom was born in Ireland and so although I've never had an Irish accent, I know I do use some Irish expressions in my speech. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4773 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 23 of 40 04 June 2014 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard) 2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 3. Australian Our top three guesses for your native (first) language: 1. English 2. Norwegian 3. Dutch I thought England would be at least third, since I've spent more time there than in the US, but I guess my exposure to US media is greater, so that makes up for it. Still not sure why Australia would place higher than England though. I was really divided on of the sentences with "who" instead of "whom". On the one hand The usage of "who" in all cases doesn't jar me in the slightest, but on the other hand I myself would never use "who" as an equivalent of an oblique case. In the end my desire to stick it to prescriptivism won over and I marked it as grammatical. I was also really tempted to mark "Up the audience's expectations, the critics built" as grammatical, since I'm used to hearing "up" used as a verb and my unease about the use of "to build" seemed to be grounded in semantics rather than grammar. But, since the verbs that basically mean "to say" do tend to have some idiosyncratic grammatical properties, and since "to build" doesn't appear to be that kind of verb (yes, I actually bothered to check a dictionary to see if there was any way for "to build" to mean something to the effect of "to say"), I chose not to mark it as grammatical. Interesting guesses for my native language. Norway is the country I've lived in the longest out of the countries where I've lived for less than six months, and I am an on-again-off-again learner of Norwegian. While I have had next to no experience with Dutch or the Dutch-speaking countries, I do recall a curious episode from my middle school years in relation to that language. I was learning English in an upper-intermediate group where I was the only one who had never lived in an English-speaking country. Once we were introducing ourselves to a new teacher from South Africa, who would then try to identify by our accents and word usage where each of us had lived in the US or the UK. Most of his guesses for the other students were pretty close. When it came to me, he asked "Have you, by any chance, lived in Holland?" I don't think anyone I've introduced myself to in English has ever identified me as a Russian until I told them I was. I've been thought of as Chinese, Mexican and Lebanese based on looks, and as Scottish, English and French based on the accent. After I tell people the truth the usual reaction is something like "Oh yeah, now that you mention it, I do hear a bit of Russian in there... still, you don't look anything like a Russian!" Also, did the "algorithm-training" questions after the test just freeze up at some point for anyone else? For me it's been stuck on the "List any countries you have lived in for at least 6 months" page ever since I started typing this post. I guess it's not quite sure how to deal with Kazakhstan being in my answer... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 24 of 40 04 June 2014 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 2. American (Standard) 3. Singaporean Our top three guesses for your native (first) language: 1. English 2. Dutch 3. Romanian Well, that was fun! I always try to speak the American Standard dialect, but saying English is my native language was just flattering hahah 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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