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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Eschaton on December 23, 2013, 05:47:55 PM

Title: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Eschaton on December 23, 2013, 05:47:55 PM: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=3&

Apparently I talk like someone from Greensboro, Jacksonville, or Tallahassee :mindblown
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: lennedsay on December 23, 2013, 05:53:14 PM: I did mine on my phone at first and the map didn't come up, so I failed.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 23, 2013, 06:00:30 PM: Dance like nobody's watching, love like you've never been hurt, talk like an error occurred
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Post by: lennedsay on December 23, 2013, 06:14:53 PM: Quote from: Esch on December 23, 2013, 06:12:36 PM
Quote from: lennedsay on December 23, 2013, 05:53:14 PM
I did mine on my phone at first and the map didn't come up, so I failed.

like a true daughter of missouri, you have no dialect. #sportscastervoice

Yay!!!

Mupepe said I had a twang, as have a few other people from the South.... I'm not confirming or denying but I will say it comes out in full force after a few hours around my extended family.
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Post by: Verdigris Murder on December 23, 2013, 06:16:46 PM: People with accent insecurity are usually latent homosexuals.
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Post by: Barry Egan on December 23, 2013, 07:06:55 PM: I got Boston :goty :stahp
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Post by: Steve Contra on December 23, 2013, 07:08:24 PM: Quote from: Barry Egan on December 23, 2013, 07:06:55 PM
I got Boston :goty :stahp
Congratulations, you talk like an asshole.
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Post by: Barry Egan on December 23, 2013, 07:10:08 PM: I think I answered a couple of them facetiously. I hope so. :-\
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Post by: Your Stalker on December 23, 2013, 07:45:26 PM: Atlanta, GA
Greensboro, NC
Columbus, GA
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 23, 2013, 08:34:04 PM: Lubbock, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Little Rock, Arkansas

:goty
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 23, 2013, 08:40:45 PM: Detroit, Michigan
Yonkers, NY
NYC, NY

I was born in Detroit. Seems like one story guaranteed the Detroit result. We call the day before Halloween "Devil's Night," and apparently very few people label it that.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on December 23, 2013, 09:11:22 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/1e3b8ro.png)

Guilty.
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Post by: drew on December 23, 2013, 09:22:45 PM: (http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5769/tt8j.png)

darkest spot is exactly right over where I live, so it looks like this test is pretty damn accurate.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Positive Touch on December 23, 2013, 09:24:44 PM: springfield, tulsa, and oklahoma city wtf

i guess i use a lot of the same words as people around here but i know my pronunciation is a little different; i got some of my moms jersey accent that comes out sometimes.
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Post by: TEEEPO on December 23, 2013, 09:32:00 PM: Baltimore

close enough
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 23, 2013, 09:59:54 PM: Got me dead on. Winston Salem and Greensboro NC.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Rufus on December 23, 2013, 10:02:14 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/M2MFr28.jpg)

Makes sense for a foreigner I guess. That's where all the prominent media comes from. Well, what I consume, anyway. Not many video game podcast on my list that are recorded in the south. The clincher for me was "firefly".
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: TEEEPO on December 23, 2013, 10:59:20 PM: Quote from: The Business on December 23, 2013, 09:58:06 PM
I wonder what makes my Arlington accent different than your Baltimore accent?

i was wondering the same thing. for reference, here is my dialect map

(http://i.imgur.com/6br5cG4.png)
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Yeti on December 23, 2013, 11:52:41 PM: Springfield, Lexington, and Phoenix. 8)
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Post by: tehjaybo on December 24, 2013, 12:02:26 AM: Modesto, CA
Reno, NV
Boise, ID

??? ??? ???

Lived in Kentucky all of my life. What the fuck.
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Post by: thisismyusername on December 24, 2013, 12:11:28 AM: Thing's broke. I talk all over the country to the point where ONE word/choice gave me two cities. :lol
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Smooth Groove on December 24, 2013, 01:06:21 AM: Most like Southern California, New York and Maine

First two make sense but Maine seems weird

I've never been there but I've always thought of Maine as being small town
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: TEEEPO on December 24, 2013, 01:29:49 AM: Quote from: The Business on December 24, 2013, 12:03:53 AM
My map looked much different than yours since I had influences from everywhere (New Englander mom and Southerner dad plus traveling?).

also, the metro area -- especially arlington -- has a lot of transplants which i'm sure factored into the results.
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Post by: pilonv1 on December 24, 2013, 02:20:31 AM: Fort Lauderdale
Miami
Pembroke Pines
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: nudemacusers on December 24, 2013, 02:40:30 AM: kinda creepy... gave me sacramento, reno, and san jose. I was born right outside sacramento, but only lived there for a few years. must have absorbed it quickly.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Beezy on December 24, 2013, 03:21:04 AM: I got New York, Jersey City, and Newark. Cool I guess.
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Post by: Reb on December 24, 2013, 12:18:33 PM: I would fit right in on Honolulu.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Atramental on December 24, 2013, 01:07:53 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/GaQOPPg.png)

Hmm.

This explains why people in SC think I'm from out of state.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: CajoleJuice on December 24, 2013, 01:21:32 PM: Quote from: Beezy on December 24, 2013, 03:21:04 AM
I got New York, Jersey City, and Newark. Cool I guess.

New York, Jersey City, and Yonkers here. I guess the slight difference is that Newark is more black and urban and Yonkers is more white and suburban?
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 24, 2013, 04:38:05 PM: Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 24, 2013, 01:21:32 PM
Quote from: Beezy on December 24, 2013, 03:21:04 AM
I got New York, Jersey City, and Newark. Cool I guess.

New York, Jersey City, and Yonkers here. I guess the slight difference is that Newark is more black and urban and Yonkers is more white and suburban?

(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/9726/vlcsnap197974tn0.jpg)
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Post by: El Babua on December 24, 2013, 04:43:42 PM: Got Newark, NYC and Providence.

Hilarius since I only lived there for a year before moving down to Miami.
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 24, 2013, 04:52:18 PM: Detroit!

(http://i.imgur.com/0qqP3UK.jpg?1)
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 24, 2013, 04:55:00 PM: Quote from: Rufus on December 23, 2013, 10:02:14 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/M2MFr28.jpg)

Makes sense for a foreigner I guess. That's where all the prominent media comes from. Well, what I consume, anyway. Not many video game podcast on my list that are recorded in the south. The clincher for me was "firefly".

Id say lake district makes sense cause its close to canada and more the british english we learn in school.

Is it different where you are from?
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Rufus on December 24, 2013, 05:23:47 PM: If they actually surveyed for that sort of stuff (dance/dahnce, etc.) I'd end up in Britain somehwere. But since it's blind to those differences...
The lexical questions they put on there seem to weight the results pretty heavily as well and I had to abstain/pick "other" on a bunch of those.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: Beezy on December 24, 2013, 06:07:21 PM: Quote from: CajoleJuice on December 24, 2013, 01:21:32 PM
Quote from: Beezy on December 24, 2013, 03:21:04 AM
I got New York, Jersey City, and Newark. Cool I guess.

New York, Jersey City, and Yonkers here. I guess the slight difference is that Newark is more black and urban and Yonkers is more white and suburban?
Makes sense. I bet it was "y'all" must have put me in the Newark group.
Title: Re: dialect survey: how do the bore talk like yall
Post by: brawndolicious on December 24, 2013, 10:31:27 PM: San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Honolulu.

Most distinctive answer for all three was firefly for some reason.