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Deteriorata posted:This is pretty fun: New York Times Regional Dialect Quiz People say "crayon" as one syllable?  edit: Pretty close, actually. It says I'm most similar to how people talk from south Illinois down to east Texas, which is legit. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Nov 11, 2014 |
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Lotish posted:People say "crayon" as one syllable? You mean you don't pronounce crayon as crayon?
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It's Coke. We all Coke down here. And when you're down here, YOU'LL....COKE...TOO!!
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Deteriorata posted:This is pretty fun: New York Times Regional Dialect Quiz So I was born in Missouri and lived here my whole life as have my entire family, but this thing says I have a Bostonian dialect?
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Lotish posted:People say "crayon" as one syllable? It told me I'm from Chicago, which I am, so that's cool. Or not, depending on how grating you find Chicago accents.
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RaspberryCommie posted:So I was born in Missouri and lived here my whole life as have my entire family, but this thing says I have a Bostonian dialect? Well, lexicon at least somewhat. It can kinda guess dialect, but might not be able to pin down exact markers.
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RaspberryCommie posted:So I was born in Missouri and lived here my whole life as have my entire family, but this thing says I have a Bostonian dialect? Perhaps you need to have an honest chat with your mother.
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Doesnt matter what shape butter is in, mutha fuckers still cant print the tbsp markings accurately so gently caress them both.
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Just took the quiz. The result was basically "Uh, yeah, hate to break this to you but you're basically a West Texan". Which is true, mind. Without getting in to the cultural differences between the various regions. But then I've discovered that we Texans are easy to pick out when traveling abroad. *EDIT* What the gently caress else is there to call the night before Halloween other than "the night before Halloween"? And why wasn't "I don't have a word for that, but Day of the Dead is probably better"? citybeatnik has a new favorite as of 00:18 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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I would like to avoid going where I can get attacked by a "mountain screamer."
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Deteriorata posted:This is pretty fun: New York Times Regional Dialect Quiz It says I'm from Yonkers or Jersey City, or maybe the tip of Florida. As a British-born Australian, do those places have a lot of filthy foreigners?
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NotAnArtist posted:You mean you don't pronounce crayon as crayon? 
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I'm from Jersey apparently. I should probably watch fewer Kevin Smith movies 
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Deteriorata posted:This is pretty fun: New York Times Regional Dialect Quiz   I'm from the midwest. Dad's from the east coast and mom's from the midwest.
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Lotish posted:People say "crayon" as one syllable? I think it's a Southern thing; I hear it a lot here in Alabama. (It's "crown." I have no idea why.)
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Gromit posted:It says I'm from Yonkers or Jersey City, or maybe the tip of Florida. As a British-born Australian, do those places have a lot of filthy foreigners? Jesus, I live in Yonkers and it nailed it. I suppose it has it's fair share of foreign born people. I never thought about it but I'd assume a lot of people come from Central and South America as well as a significant Irish community. Oh and Polish but not as much as it used to. VVV It's crazy, but some monsters apparently do wipe standing up. RoyKeen has a new favorite as of 00:38 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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so, huh, some people wipe their rear end while standing up...
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Sorry, misread the thread title and thought I was in another thread!
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Solice Kirsk posted:Did you know Wisconsin people call drinking fountains "bubblers"? What the hell happened to that arctic hellscape of a state? We have this plumbing company, Kohler, that patented and trademarked one of the early models of drinking fountains and named it The Bubbler. Kohler is in SE Wisconsin, and since transportation/communication isn't what it is now compared to the late 1800's, the name stayed rather localized, except for usage in Portland and Australia, who also used the design. Other companies tried similar things, patenting/trademarking their designs with unusual names (The Gusher, The Gurgler) but those never caught on. The Bubbler design fell out of favor as it was straight up vertical instead of an arc to the side.
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Say Nothing saves the day again. 
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Dillbag posted:Say Nothing saves the day again. Happened to be watching TNG on my second monitor, now I'm losing my poo poo. thanks. 
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citybeatnik posted:What the gently caress else is there to call the night before Halloween other than "the night before Halloween"? And why wasn't "I don't have a word for that, but Day of the Dead is probably better"? Around here it's called "Beggar's Night" and it's when the trick-or-treating actually happens(for safety, I guess?)
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Fizbin posted:Around here it's called "Beggar's Night" and it's when the trick-or-treating actually happens(for safety, I guess?) It's called "Devil's Night" in Detroit, which is a very specific regional thing.
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Deteriorata posted:It's called "Devil's Night" in Detroit, which is a very specific regional thing. Wait are you telling me that the regional dialect quiz pertains to unique regional dialects?
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Deteriorata posted:It's called "Devil's Night" in Detroit, which is a very specific regional thing. 
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Deteriorata posted:It's called "Devil's Night" in Detroit, which is a very specific regional thing. I call it Devil's Night, but mostly because I heard about Devil's Night in Detroit and didn't have any other word for it. It correctly guessed Cleveland, apparently no one else uses the word "tree lawn".
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It seems like if you call it a hoagie, it automatically places you in Philly/South Jersey Which is accurate
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Twitch posted:It correctly guessed Cleveland, apparently no one else uses the word "tree lawn". Devil Strip
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Deteriorata posted:It's called "Devil's Night" in Detroit, which is a very specific regional thing. That's because Halloween ain't 'til maņana.
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I'm from L.A. but live in Virginia and it gave me two hotspots: Fresno and Arlington. Pretty neat.
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Abugadu posted:We have this plumbing company, Kohler, that patented and trademarked one of the early models of drinking fountains and named it The Bubbler. Kohler is in SE Wisconsin, and since transportation/communication isn't what it is now compared to the late 1800's, the name stayed rather localized, except for usage in Portland and Australia, who also used the design. Other companies tried similar things, patenting/trademarking their designs with unusual names (The Gusher, The Gurgler) but those never caught on. It's "bubbler" in Massachusetts, too. Well, "bubblah."
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Gromit posted:It says I'm from Yonkers or Jersey City, or maybe the tip of Florida. As a British-born Australian, do those places have a lot of filthy foreigners? Are you asking if South Florida is full of immigrants? Because, you know, yeah. That quiz is pretty cool. It put me in Miami, and I was born in the Miami area. I thought I would throw it off because I've spent a lot of time in different parts of the country, and I know my speech patterns have changed. Its first two guesses were within 30-60 minutes of where I was born. Centripetal Horse has a new favorite as of 02:51 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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citybeatnik posted:What the gently caress else is there to call the night before Halloween other than "the night before Halloween"? And why wasn't "I don't have a word for that, but Day of the Dead is probably better"? South New Jersey. It's called Mischief Night here because it's typically the night that teenagers go out egging cars and TPing houses and poo poo.
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Burlnton NJ and yeah totally forgot about Mischief Night.
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I'm from Maine.
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I grew up in central Indiana and it placed me in either Yonkers or Fort Lauderdale (or a city slightly to the west of Fort Lauderdale)
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Polaron posted:I grew up in central Indiana and it placed me in either Yonkers or Fort Lauderdale (or a city slightly to the west of Fort Lauderdale) Central Indiana is host to the General American Accent. We don't have any defining features in our vocabulary either. The quiz has no loving idea where to put us because we're an anomaly.
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It doesn't include Canada, but it guessed either Buffalo, NY or Vancouver, OR, which pretty much covers the span. They should add in a learning algorithm like Akinator so eventually it'll be able to pinpoint the town in Mumbai you grew up in by how differently you pronounce 'keef halak' and 'keef halek.'
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