This is really very interesting...
What part of and where in the U.S. is your accent from?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/amer...cent-quiz.html
It correctly tagged me as being from "the Midlands" (Midwest).
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This is really very interesting...
What part of and where in the U.S. is your accent from?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/amer...cent-quiz.html
It correctly tagged me as being from "the Midlands" (Midwest).
It thinks I am from the North East and it is correct. Odd that vowel differentiation should distinguished a New Yorker/North East accent as the region tends to get mocked for its accents and yet the vowel differentiation is actually proper.
This is the quote from the results:So they were close, though I don't have much of a NYC/ North Jersey sound. Most of the questions concerned vowel differentiation and my responses match the dictionary pretty well. I think their were only 2 questions that were not vowel differentiation so I am guessing a far longer and far more accurate test is probably out there.Quote:
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Also I have taken this before or something very close. My wife had stumbled over it.
Tried it, even though I'm Canadian, and it gave me the same answer as EH, which makes sense -- he's really not that far away, geographically or culturally.
Gave me Midland too. I guess the years of living in big cities has drained the WI/MI out of my accent.
Oh, this got me all kinds of wrong! It says I have a Midlands accent, and it's less Southern than anything. :D
According to this I also have a Midland accent. I debate the accuracy. I think I sound pretty Californian with an occasional twang of Arkansas.
Mine is "Inland North," which is pretty much dead on. I have a very typical Chicago accent, though not QUITE as bad the Superfans from SNL:
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"Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak."
Midland. Apparently, the 5+ years in Texas and 10+ in Utah are dragging my accent off the Eastern Seaboard, kicking and screaming.
(Before living in Houston, I would never have believed that anyone pronounced "bag" in a way that rhymed with "vague," but it's a very typical Southern black thing.)
Non-accented Midland. Fine by me; most any accent that Utahns peg as "not from here" (I get asked fairly often where I'm from, though I am more or less a native) would be.
It's also a very typical white Wisconsinite thing!Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Gave me a 'Midland' (I'm in the California Midland area). I always liked this map, even if it appears more precisely drawn than it should be, as the location data points are actual samples of speech you can compare.
Inland North.
Okay.
A section of California is considered to be "Midland" (See the map I posted previous.) I think the accent is similar enough in most respects. Although there is definitely a dialect variation — take a look at the Harvard Dialect Survey for extensive results and you can see that some questions reveal the "actual" midland.Quote:
Originally posted by RabbitMage
I would say you and I have pretty much the same accent. You say "salsa" weirdly, but I guess that's a problem with your Spanish accent, not your English accent! :)Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
Apparently I have an inland north accent. Whatever that is... :???:
Inland north = where most of the Americans who immigrated from your country ended up. :D
So if I'm reading that map correctly, San Joaquin Valley=Midlands?Quote:
Originally posted by parzivalA section of California is considered to be "Midland" (See the map I posted previous.) I think the accent is similar enough in most respects. Although there is definitely a dialect variation — take a look at the Harvard Dialect Survey for extensive results and you can see that some questions reveal the "actual" midland.Quote:
Originally posted by RabbitMage
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Is this true?!Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Yep. Wisconsin, Michigan, and the rest of the northern Midwest were big hotbeds of German immigration.Quote:
Originally posted by spitzIs this true?!Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Heavy concentrations in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, too.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
And quite a few in Texas, but apparently the Texas accent wins.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Mine came up Shikaguh
I got the Midland accent as well and I never noticed any distinct differences between how I speak and how you or yours speak. A certain friend of yours who grew up not far from me had the same accent as well.Quote:
Originally posted by RabbitMageSo if I'm reading that map correctly, San Joaquin Valley=Midlands?Quote:
Originally posted by parzivalA section of California is considered to be "Midland" (See the map I posted previous.) I think the accent is similar enough in most respects. Although there is definitely a dialect variation — take a look at the Harvard Dialect Survey for extensive results and you can see that some questions reveal the "actual" midland.Quote:
Originally posted by RabbitMage
Yeah, that sounds about right.
However, up in the northwoods I'm told I sound "angry" and "southern."
Yup! I remember being told how much like your sister I sounded, to the point that they thought I must be the other daughter that was moving up there.Quote:
Originally posted by Zuul
It correctly identified me as being from the South.
Tried for a laugh: Apparently I'm from the Northeast. Then again, it is close to the UK as you get.
Yeah, the Thurston Howell "Hahvahd" type accent is, while not British, within throwing distance of a BBC newsreader accent.Quote:
Originally posted by CatInASuit
Like apparently the other L2 speakers here I got "Inland North". Perhaps that's what you hear on TV?
What's L2?
Second language. I suspect kk fusion is right, they learn to talk like the man on the six o'clock news.Quote:
Originally posted by spitz