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| CrazyManAndy Groupie United States myspace.com/bobandbiRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6113 days ago 51 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 33 of 74 10 March 2008 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
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I'm from NC as well, but the Midland was slightly higher than the South. Kind of odd, as I don't think anyone could mistake my accent for anything other than southern. It wasn't off by much though, so I'll give it that.
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| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6262 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 34 of 74 11 March 2008 at 2:36pm | IP Logged |
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My accent is North Central. "Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot." <- Well, I AM a Canadian. In my world it's the same accent I hear on TV...
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5333 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 35 of 74 13 October 2010 at 11:38am | IP Logged |
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Midland accent. "You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas." Close but not quite. I'm from Europe. ;-) "You have a good voice for TV and radio." Well I guess that makes sense, seeing as I got my accent from watching American films and TV. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5229 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 36 of 74 13 October 2010 at 12:00pm | IP Logged |
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Your Result: The West
Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. Dead on. Very fun quiz. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Desacrator48 Groupie United States Joined 5306 days ago 93 posts - 127 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 37 of 74 14 October 2010 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
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My Result: The West
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. -------- Well, I am from the West, born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles. I was really hoping I wouldn't get any other result than this, and fortunately I didn't. I already knew I had the generic American 'accent' and at least now my thoughts are confirmed. From what I read previously, this does seem like a very accurate quiz based on the satisfaction of other people with their results. Also, I'd like to point out how easily the quiz can determine your accent simply by how you pronounce two similarily spelled words. This brings to mind a radio bit I remember here in L.A. where two local radio guys were debating how two words should sound the same as opposed to how they should be pronounced differently as advocated by a guy from...Philadelphia, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| thephantomgoat Groupie United States Joined 5469 days ago 52 posts - 103 votes | Message 38 of 74 15 October 2010 at 8:18am | IP Logged |
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My 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." _____ Born and raised in California. I've never been east of the Rockies. So...huh. This quiz brought to my attention the fact that I distinguish between long and short vowels. I pronounce "cot" and "caught" slightly differently, for instance, the latter having a longer vowel sound. I didn't use to pronounce vowels differently based on their length; it's only since I've begun studying languages in earnest that I've picked up pieces of other accents. And in everyday speech I don't normally differentiate between the pronunciation of "cot" and "caught," but when the question is put to me, as in quizzes like this, I realize that yes, I do articulate these sounds differently. Apart from some joking around, I've never referred to soda as "pop." >< 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 39 of 74 20 October 2010 at 5:51am | IP Logged |
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I got a Midland accent, though I'm from upstate New York. That makes sense though, since here we speak a more generic American accent than our neighbors in New England or New York City.
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6947 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 40 of 74 20 October 2010 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
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Born and raised in southern California, and I got the West :)
Honestly, I couldn't even imagine how any of those were supposed to be pronounced differently, besides 'caught' with the /ɔ/ which doesn't exist in my dialect (I learned about this sound for the first time in a phonetics class, and even now when trying to pronounce it I have to visualize a New Yorker or British person saying 'law' or something like that). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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