magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6631 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 17 of 74 17 February 2008 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
noybf wrote:
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."
This quiz is pretty accurate. It figured out my accent correctly and where I am from (Western NY). |
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I got the same result, I'm from Western NY as well =0
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magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6631 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 18 of 74 17 February 2008 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
I usually call it a "soda" or just a "drink" though lol
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Cisa Super Polyglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6421 days ago 312 posts - 309 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Hungarian*, Slovak, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin, SpanishB2, RussianB2, GermanB2, Korean, Czech, Latin Studies: Italian, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Hindi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew
| Message 19 of 74 17 February 2008 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
Result: Northeast
But most people usually say I have quite a British accent. On the other hand, I like New York.... :)
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 20 of 74 17 February 2008 at 5:37am | IP Logged |
I was skeptical that such a small number pronunciation clues would nail my origin, but it did.
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fat_hot Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6384 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin
| Message 21 of 74 17 February 2008 at 12:05pm | IP Logged |
It pegged my accent exactly. It said I have an Inland North accent; I'm originally from Connecticut but lived for many years in western New York and picked up that Chicago or Great Lakes accent, which I find very noticeable when I listen to recordings of myself.
James
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Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6858 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin
| Message 22 of 74 17 February 2008 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
Your Result: The West
Bingo. New Mexico born and raised.
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noybf Newbie United States Joined 6389 days ago 34 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 23 of 74 17 February 2008 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
magic9man2 wrote:
noybf wrote:
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."
This quiz is pretty accurate. It figured out my accent correctly and where I am from (Western NY). |
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I got the same result, I'm from Western NY as well =0 |
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Wow, small world! :)
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Zorrillo Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 6386 days ago 41 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, French, Sign Language, Spanish, Polish Studies: Greek, Georgian, Indonesian
| Message 24 of 74 18 February 2008 at 12:24am | IP Logged |
It got mine exactly right.
Midland accent- I'm from southern Ohio.
Edited by Zorrillo on 18 February 2008 at 12:26am
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