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| RealJames Diglot Newbie Japan realizeenglish.com/ Joined 4921 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: French, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 49 of 74 04 December 2010 at 10:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Your Result: North Central
"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot. That's awesome because I AM Canadian! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5244 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 50 of 74 04 December 2010 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I say "soda" now that I live in California, but it picked Inland North and I was born and raised in Michigan. I gave the quiz to a friend from Utah who can't say "caught" differently from "cot" unless he pretends he has British accent. It placed him solidly in the West. Interesting how so few questions can draw the distinctions pretty well. Edited by BartoG on 04 December 2010 at 11:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Architect Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5802 days ago 11 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew Studies: French, German | Message 51 of 74 09 December 2010 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I got classified as Northeast.
I grew up in New York City and now live in Boston. I have been told by many people that I have a neutral accent, all the years in Boston have neutralized the New York accent without acquiring a Boston one. Just for laughs (or as they would say in another part of the US, giggles) I changed my answer to the "what do you think about "Mary," "merry," and "marry" question to say that they all sound the same. That is the classical question to distinguish a Boston accent. That changed my results to Inland North. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vanillabean Groupie Canada Joined 4805 days ago 53 posts - 63 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 52 of 74 23 March 2011 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Haha, same for me. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 4865 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 53 of 74 23 March 2011 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an 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. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
I'm from Florida, so it's correct :) My 2nd top was "the west" which also would be right (I was a little iffy on the dawn/don questions, don't know if changing my answer would have made a difference). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tedmac278 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4097 days ago 23 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Estonian | Message 54 of 74 20 February 2013 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
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You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an 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. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
Spot on! I'm from Atlanta. I'm glad this confirms what I tell people from other countries: That I don't really have a regional accent, it's just a standard american accent. Thanks for the link! Edited by Tedmac278 on 20 February 2013 at 1:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4644 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 55 of 74 20 February 2013 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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My Result: The South 88%
That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it. * * * * * Amazing. I was born in Alabama, lived there until I was 10, lived in Atlanta until I was 15, then went back to Alabama for university and left afterwards. Many people in the South - even people in my own family - told me that I had "proper English", that I had a standard accent. Heh, I guess they were wrong! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4686 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 56 of 74 20 February 2013 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I was sure this wasn't going to be accurate ... I answered half the questions with a
"maybe I don't know" - and I got 77% Inland North (Great Lakes). Bingo. I'm was born and raised in Michigan:
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." And yes, I get those annoying questions all the time, though it's usually "are you from Australia?" and occasionally "you must be from Canada." Edited by kanewai on 20 February 2013 at 3:27am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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