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[Owlbread]

Can anyone share the link to the accent thing? I did a different test earlier on and it told me I had a "neutral" American accent based on my vowels. The problem was it asked me something like "how do you say the A in pasta? A as in cat and hat or A as in father?" but I pronounce all those vowels the same way.

[fivex]

Can anyone share the link to the accent thing? I did a different test earlier on and it told me I had a "neutral" American accent based on my vowels. The problem was it asked me something like "how do you say the A in pasta? A as in cat and hat or A as in father?" but I pronounce all those vowels the same way.

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[Haspen]

I'm apparently an incomprehensible alien to anyone but people living in Boston, Providence, Worcester and the most north-eastern state of US. Whatever its name is.

Well okay, San Francisco area is orange, but most of US is blue or deep blue

[BFEL]

I'm apparently an incomprehensible alien to anyone but people living in Boston, Providence, Worcester and the most north-eastern state of US. Whatever its name is.

Well okay, San Francisco area is orange, but most of US is blue or deep blue

Damn someone beat me to the "EVERYTHING IS BLUE" party. Although mine is pretty much all in pieces of Ohio (where I live) and Denver.

[scriver]

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Apparently I speak like in Honolule, Boston, and.. I can't remember what the third one was. The one's I speak the least like was Des Moines and two Glove-State places.

[AlleeCat]

It's like southern Louisiana is this tiny section of the US where they speak a completely different language. Anyway, I'm not surprised I speak like a Californian since I was raised by Californians and so was my best friend who I spent my formative years hanging out with. Also I had no idea "rubbernecking" was even a thing but apparently it is and the entire world has a name for it...

[Owlbread]

It's like southern Louisiana is this tiny section of the US where they speak a completely different language. Anyway, I'm not surprised I speak like a Californian since I was raised by Californians and so was my best friend who I spent my formative years hanging out with. Also I had no idea "rubbernecking" was even a thing but apparently it is and the entire world has a name for it...

Well, once upon a time they did. And some still do. Parlez-vous français?

[misko27]

It's like southern Louisiana is this tiny section of the US where they speak a completely different language. Anyway, I'm not surprised I speak like a Californian since I was raised by Californians and so was my best friend who I spent my formative years hanging out with. Also I had no idea "rubbernecking" was even a thing but apparently it is and the entire world has a name for it...

Well, once upon a time they did. And some still do. Parlez-vous français?

Ehh, there are a lot of french up north by the new england border too, probably more; they don't speak all that differently. Meanwhile that small area of the Louisiana was the one most opposed to me, while even the rest of the South was only barely blue (I'm fairly universal as a speaker apparently.)


Anyway, asking my mom apparently a significant number of New Yorkers go to Fort Lauderdale, which explains why I had that specific place in Florida.

A answer that is totally blue only refers to how the US views your particular answer for a question: If no one else in the US answers like you do, you get a Blue map.

Can anyone share the link to the accent thing? I did a different test earlier on and it told me I had a "neutral" American accent based on my vowels. The problem was it asked me something like "how do you say the A in pasta? A as in cat and hat or A as in father?" but I pronounce all those vowels the same way.

Ask and ye shall receive:

There's a New York Times survey that shows what regions of the US your dialect is most similar to: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

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[RedKing]

I call bullshit on this study.

It's placing me as most similar to Jackson, MS and Mobile/Birmingham, AL. I've *BEEN* to Jackson. I could barely understand half the people there.
It also places eastern North Carolina in almost the same shade of dark red, and I can firmly attest that while also nearly incomprehensible, the eastern NC accent is nothing like the Gulf Coast accent. And the Raleigh accent is utterly unlike the accent just 50 miles east, which is sort of a Tarheel version of Boomhauer from King of the Hill.

It also ignores situational accent shifts. I pronounce things differently and use different terminology at work than I do at home, and both differently than I do if I'm visiting rural family.
If I'm being "professional", I have very little regional accent.
If'n I'm visitin' kin down'n the country, then boy howdy I can lay it on thick.

[Karlito]

It's not testing accent for the most part, but dialect.

[Bauglir]

Bauglir does not live in Florida, but then again he did feel unsure about several answers.

[FearfulJesuit]

I call bullshit on this study.

It's placing me as most similar to Jackson, MS and Mobile/Birmingham, AL. I've *BEEN* to Jackson. I could barely understand half the people there.
It also places eastern North Carolina in almost the same shade of dark red, and I can firmly attest that while also nearly incomprehensible, the eastern NC accent is nothing like the Gulf Coast accent. And the Raleigh accent is utterly unlike the accent just 50 miles east, which is sort of a Tarheel version of Boomhauer from King of the Hill.

It also ignores situational accent shifts. I pronounce things differently and use different terminology at work than I do at home, and both differently than I do if I'm visiting rural family.
If I'm being "professional", I have very little regional accent.
If'n I'm visitin' kin down'n the country, then boy howdy I can lay it on thick.

There's something else, too, which is a problem that linguists have had to deal with for decades: people are very, very bad at reporting how they actually speak. When you ask somebody to self-report on their own speech, they'll almost always say they speak closer to the standard than they actually do, especially if their natural speech is a stigmatized variant. William Labov (I think; he certainly did the "fourth floor" experiment, which is worth googling), who studied the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, did his damnedest to get examples of natural speech from speakers with the shift, using hidden tape recorders and that sort of thing. When he replayed the most advanced examples of the shift to speakers, they told him that nobody talked like that.

[MonkeyHead]

Oh gawd, as someone with an accent frequently described as hilarious by those outside (and on occasion, inside) the UK (think anrgy, gravelly Tom Jones), I have to try me this accent thing...

Spoiler: Long Live the Confederacy? (click to show/hide)

Well, that was unexpected.

[Owlbread]

I would show you my map but I can't quite work out how to do it properly. I am most similar to the North West of the USA, also around the Salt Lake City area because I say "drinking fountain", but I kept answering "other" all the time because my dialect doesn't fit any of the words they were proposing. Mary, merry and marry are also all pronounced differently by me.

For instance - I would call soda "juice" or "ginger", occasionally "fizzy drinks" but juice or ginger more often. I also call woodlice (the rolling bugs they talk about) "slaters". I also have no word for when it's raining and the sun is shining at the same time because in Scotland it just rains.

[LordSlowpoke]

Show image, save as, reupload to imgur or someplace.

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i ain't even murikkan