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Regional Dialect Test
I took this, and it said I could be from Des Moines, Ft. Wayne or Pittsburgh!
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12-23-2013, 03:15 PM | #46 |
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Said I'm looking California, feeling Minnesota
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12-23-2013, 03:17 PM | #47 |
Kind of a mod
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Wichita or Springfield for me. Pretty accurate.
The interesting part is that my wife grew up in Denver, but her whole family is from Kansas. She actually matched Springfield better than anywhere, indicating that dialects (at least in her case) can survive through a generation or two. |
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12-23-2013, 03:28 PM | #48 |
Texting Ms. Dobbs
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Richmond, Raleigh, Norfolk / Chesapeake
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12-23-2013, 03:34 PM | #49 |
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12-23-2013, 03:39 PM | #50 |
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lincoln, witchita, springfield. They could have just picked the closest city to the center and they would have been right on.
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12-23-2013, 04:02 PM | #51 |
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overland park, witchita, springfield
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12-23-2013, 04:02 PM | #52 |
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Pretty accurate, I got Springfield, Tulsa, and OK City. Born and lived in Springfield my entire life.
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12-23-2013, 04:02 PM | #53 | |
Now you've pissed me off!
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I used to call a soft drink pop, now I call it soda. Car-mul became Kara-mel. They missed some really good ones on there like Wash being pronounced "warsh", even in popular names, yell being "holler", and some others.
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12-23-2013, 04:06 PM | #54 | |
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12-23-2013, 04:10 PM | #55 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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I don't want to make this a political thread, but it's always interesting to examine the way politicians will purposefully alter their dialect according to where they are.
A great example is to examine Hillary Clinton's speech patterns as FLOA compared to them now.
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12-23-2013, 04:11 PM | #56 |
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Crap I'm from Denver. Or Lincoln Nebraska.
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12-23-2013, 04:12 PM | #57 |
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12-23-2013, 04:23 PM | #58 | |
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Madison, Rockford, Grand Rapids. Eastern Iowa is in dark red, so spot on.
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12-23-2013, 04:33 PM | #59 |
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Really is interesting to me that ppl from Western Iowa and Omaha talk different than those in Eastern Iowa.
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12-23-2013, 04:36 PM | #60 | |
In BB I trust
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Mine was "no word for that" cuz I literally had never heard of any phrase for "Halloween Eve" so to speak.
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