Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=802200110801006010082080080001048810224040000j0400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branchwater Jack SASS #88854 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 This whole study is just profiling. I canno believe a reputable publication like the NYT would allow its readers to be profiled like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branchwater Jack SASS #88854 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Oh, and it doesn't apper to be able to generate results when done from an I device Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Matched me to a T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Milo Talon SASS #23163 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Tried it and just got sent back to the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boon Doggle Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 According to the "TEST" most of me is a little North West of where my mouth is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Mine is generally correct. Arkansas/Missouri with some leanings toward the Tenn,Ky patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Mine is generally correct. Arkansas/Missouri with some leanings toward the Tenn,Ky patterns. That's why you're always welcome over here!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Ahahha.. the web site don't like my browser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shoer 27979 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 That was fun, mine said the the south was the most similar, it also named Jackson Miss. Augusta GA. and Winston N Carolina (?) as the 3 citys I have the most similarity with. Not bad for a native Californian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 Mine nailed me to a T….a true Midwesterner by birth. Rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Tried it and just got sent back to the beginning. Yup. Tried it four times and just kept getting sent in a circle back to the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calico Mary Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 had a problem with this question "What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle?" none of the answers were four letter words I can't say on here without getting in trouble..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Having grown up in California, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, and Texas I'm sorta a linguistic mess! But somehow I ended up plotted in Salt Lake City, and Stockton and Santa Rosa, Ca! Hmmm.... Never been to SLC.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 we talk like this http://www.cit.cmu.edu/current_students/services/pittsburghese.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Having grown up in California, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, and Texas I'm sorta a linguistic mess! But somehow I ended up plotted in Salt Lake City, and Stockton and Santa Rosa, Ca! Hmmm.... Never been to SLC.... Linguistic? Well, okay, if that's what you want to call it. Had a college language professor in 1962 who bragged he could usually tell within 50-100 miles where some one was from by the way they spoke. He didn't miss very often. He also said that within 50 years or so everyoe would meld together because they would get most of their language patterns from Walter Cronkite and other TV "voices", and that it would become ingrained to the point we would all have "TV commentator voices" and that the deep south, the "down eastern" areas, and the greater New York area would be the last places to lose their regional accents and usage. He wasn't far off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Term Emory Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 had a problem with this question "What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle?" none of the answers were four letter words I can't say on here without getting in trouble..... Cluster**** ain't no 4 letter word....😜😜 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Man Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Never gave me an answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maker-Wright Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Test said I was from the mountains above "Whoville"... where the hell is Whoville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemsum Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I took this twice and got drastically different results. I am from southeastern NC with mother & father from Maryland & South Carolina respectively. Most of my answers showed a blue or white tone on the answer. The only change I made between the first and second attempt was that the 1st time I chose y'all as I would speak to my family and the 2nd time I chose you all as I would use at work or in written communication. The use of y'all got pretty close to me with Winston-Salem NC, but the 2nd time put me in the Cleveland/Akron Ohio area because I call a combination vehicle a tractor-tailor. Looks like 1 answer can make a big difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I am originally from southern VA but spent time as a kid in GA, Washington state, OK, MI and NC. This little exercise put me near Mobile, AL. I know people from that area that speak differently and use different words than me. Did the same group that set up Obama-don't-care do this website???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Moscow with influences of Barcelona? I must have done thomething wrong, tovarich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Having grown up in California, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, and Texas I'm sorta a linguistic mess! But somehow I ended up plotted in Salt Lake City, and Stockton and Santa Rosa, Ca! Hmmm.... Never been to SLC.... Santa Rosa? Weird. The choices for me were Modesto, Fresno, or Bakersfield. Been through Modesto and Bakersfield, have a brother in Fresno. I was raised in N. San Diego Co. CA. Spent three years in Chico, CA, and moved to Sonoma Co. CA in 1982. Been there pretty much since, but with a 3 year hiatus in Lake Co. CA. My Dad was from Rock Castle Co, KY, my Mom from Carbon Co, PA, both moved to CA in 1947. Moscow with influences of Barcelona? I must have done thomething wrong, tovarich. Eble ĝi estas havi Esperanton kiel duan lingvon por tiom longe ke paneas viajn rezultojn, Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 minneapolis/st paul , madison , rockford interesting pinpointed where i lived the most of my life since college , i have been here since '82 mpls/stp , prior to that i was in quad cities , but was flying/working all over the south , grew up in iowa , so it placed me fairly well , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Santa Rosa? Weird. The choices for me were Modesto, Fresno, or Bakersfield. Been through Modesto and Bakersfield, have a brother in Fresno. I was raised in N. San Diego Co. CA. Spent three years in Chico, CA, and moved to Sonoma Co. CA in 1982. Been there pretty much since, but with a 3 year hiatus in Lake Co. CA. My Dad was from Rock Castle Co, KY, my Mom from Carbon Co, PA, both moved to CA in 1947. Eble ĝi estas havi Esperanton kiel duan lingvon por tiom longe ke paneas viajn rezultojn, Bob. Yeah, that might have done it. Damn Circle Trigon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Mae Mohr Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 It gave me the cities of Springfield, Wichita, & Amarillo, and I've never lived anywhere but Indiana and other than my mom being born in AZ and spending the first 6 weeks of her life there, my parents always lived in Indiana, and my grandparents too (except for the very brief time my maternal gp's lived in AZ as previously noted). In fact I think all my ancestors settled here straight from Germany, just not sure how many generations back that was. It did have the Midwest lit up in red though, and most of the other parts were at least orange except the Northeast...that was as blue as blue can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 had a problem with this question "What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle?" none of the answers were four letter words I can't say on here without getting in trouble..... Dear heart, that odd braying sound in the distance is me a-laughin' ... Glad to see I am not the only soul with a low opinion of those aggravating remnants of Victorian village-level, horse-and-buggy traffic handling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamon Chute Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Got me as Stockton, Union City, and Fremont. Pretty darn close as I'm a native San Franciscan. EC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 minneapolis/st paul , madison , rockford interesting pinpointed where i lived the most of my life since college , i have been here since '82 mpls/stp , prior to that i was in quad cities , but was flying/working all over the south , grew up in iowa , so it placed me fairly well , Me too. Interestingly enough, I'm a native Californian, even if I've lived in other places. I guess all the places I've lived have had an influence on my morphology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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