Linguiphiles will never satisfy their lust for regional data
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I tried going to the site to enter my answers and get my heatmaps, but because it had just been mentioned on reddit my final calculation timed out, so I never found out where it thought I was from. I may have to try it again now that the furor has died down.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
--Patrick
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Here's my map -
Miami/Ft Lauderdale/Pembroke Pines area.
Which I guess comes from my wandering military family having lived in Maryland, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.
I am least similar from Michigan, specifically Detroit, Toledo, and Grand Rapids.
But is it literally evolving?
That's actually a moot point.
You must think you're so fancy mister big shot with your non-state run liqueur stores.
GasBandit
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Not much to tell. It's a drive thru. You pull up, order your liqour, pay, and drive away.
I actually took a class on Canadian English last term. Interesting stuff, especially seeing where things do/don't overlap with parts of the US.This would be even more fun if you included Canada and the UK. Or, you know, the rest of the world and our English usage. Because half of you or more are doing it wrong
...that quiz....In half the questions, the answers are simply not the same thing. Millipedes and centipedes are different animals, and neither of them's what the quiz is referring to.
Anyway, New York, Yonkers, Detroit...I'm not entirely surprised - having taken most of my English cues from TV and the UK, I figured I'd either end up in New England, around NY or Hollywood
Anyway, New York, Yonkers, Detroit...I'm not entirely surprised - having taken most of my English cues from TV and the UK, I figured I'd either end up in New England, around NY or Hollywood
The quiz, like actual linguistic study, has no interest in what's right or wrong. All it's measuring is where and in which dialects words are used to represent certain things.
I think the point is that in some areas they don't make distinctions. It's like the concept of the color blue in Russian culture. They are taught to perceive light blue and dark blue as colors as distinct as we view orange and red, whereas we just view it as gradations of the same color, not distinct separate colors.
My wife says bubbler... She's from Wisconsin
Imagine that.
GasBandit
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Odd, your picture seems to include the Azores when nobody else's has so far. Or maybe that's Puerto Rico. Hard to tell.
I see a lot of heavy red coloring in New Jersey.... One of us! One of us!...that quiz....In half the questions, the answers are simply not the same thing. Millipedes and centipedes are different animals, and neither of them's what the quiz is referring to.
Anyway, New York, Yonkers, Detroit...I'm not entirely surprised - having taken most of my English cues from TV and the UK, I figured I'd either end up in New England, around NY or Hollywood
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Only two whole states off. But my accent is far more southern than what most people think Texan sounds like.
Only two whole states off. But my accent is far more southern than what most people think Texan sounds like.
Shocking to no one...( except @Tinwhistler) 
Actually, it is a little spooky. It narrowed my dialect down to Newark/Jersey City, and I spent the first 10 years of my life living right next to those towns.
Actually, it is a little spooky. It narrowed my dialect down to Newark/Jersey City, and I spent the first 10 years of my life living right next to those towns.
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