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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4675 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 46 25 December 2013 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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This is a fun test:
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk It uses a Harvard study to creat a personal dialect map. It was pretty accurate for me, even though I left SE Michigan 20 years ago ... 
I'd be curious to see how it works for non-Americans and non native English speakers! Edited by kanewai on 25 December 2013 at 12:53am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jhaberstro Senior Member United States Joined 4179 days ago 112 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 2 of 46 25 December 2013 at 1:14am | IP Logged |
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I'm American and it pegged me as being from Southern California (whereas I'm actually from NYS). However, it's
been incredibly accurate for countless friends on Facebook, so I'm wondering if I'm just an anomaly (perhaps influence from watching Hollywood)? Edited by jhaberstro on 25 December 2013 at 1:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MixedUpCody Senior Member United States Joined 5042 days ago 144 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 3 of 46 25 December 2013 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
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We did this for my Socio-linguistics class. I got Bakersfield, CA, Overland Park, KS, and Cincinnati, OH. None of which I've ever lived in. I was born in Texas, grew up in Arizona and I've lived in San Diego for the last 10 years.
EDIT: Typo. Edited by MixedUpCody on 25 December 2013 at 1:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4451 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 46 25 December 2013 at 1:18am | IP Logged |
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It pegged me as being from somewhere around Maryland or Pennsylvania. I lived in Texas for the first 24 years of my life, but both of my parents are Pennsylvanians.
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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4422 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 5 of 46 25 December 2013 at 1:26am | IP Logged |
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It got my area correct with that really dark red.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4307 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 6 of 46 25 December 2013 at 1:30am | IP Logged |
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Aurora/Chicago/New York with a lot of orange on the West Coast.
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| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4112 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 7 of 46 25 December 2013 at 2:38am | IP Logged |
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According to this, I'm from New York, but there are red zones on Rhode Island and nothern
Illinois too (I've never been to the US). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6689 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 8 of 46 25 December 2013 at 4:42am | IP Logged |
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For me, the part in dark red was Honolulu ;). Fremont and San Jose were red, too, as well as the state of New York. Orange was mostly on the West Coast, in Wisconsin, in the very south of Florida and in Alaska. I have never been to the United States, and most of my exposure to American English is via movies.
I doubt this can work for a foreigner, despite those who have lived in the United States or are much more advanced in English than me. I didn't have an answer to most lexical questions, and the question that the quiz considered as my most distinctive answer for each of the cities was 'I have never heard of such a thing' in reply to 'What do you call a drive-through liquor store?' :). I remember a similar quiz that focused more or exclusively on phonetic features - this could tell more about foreigners. Edited by Julie on 25 December 2013 at 7:17am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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