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Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: oldcoastie6468 on October 28, 2013, 10:54:57 AM
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I am 93% Inland North.
Begin here: http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have (http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have)
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Inland North - 86%
I guess my travels have contaminated my speech!
Damn foreigners!
;D
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I'm from the south. Unfortunately they didn't have a coon-ass version.
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Haven't taken the quiz yet, but as one who walks the dawg and drinks cawfee, whaddaya think?
eta: Okay, took the quiz and while the result is correct, "The Northeast", their breakdown is questionable. Philadelphians and the nearby Jersey towns/cities sound different from North and South Jersey, and mid to South Jersey doesn't sound like New York.
Philly says "spewn" for "spoon" and "awn" is "on"; I can hear 'em coming a mile away. Oh, and they're big unionistas, so there's already a good reason to despise them.
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95% Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
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Where's Robin to chastise the test about "aboot" not being an option? ;D
Inland North - 85%
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88% midland
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92% South.
This stuff is misleading though because accents aren't monolithic things. There's no singular Southern accent, just like there's no singular British accent, or any accent for that matter. I notice it on The Walking Dead. The actors do a pretty good job overall at their accents, but some of it sounds more South Georgia than the North Georgia setting. In South Georgia and North Florida you start getting that "ight" pronounced "aaht" and I hear that on the show.
Interesting that several of the actors on the show are British. British people can do a more convincing Southern accent than most non-Southern Americans IMO. Linguistically Southern American English is closer to British English than are other American dialects. People in coastal NC have been studied because the local dialects have preserved elements of 17th/18th century British English. Pretty interesting stuff.
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well I was 80% inland north, and 73% northeast. Though I am hard of hearing, and my parents have 95% British accent, who knows? ;D
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90% midland
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I confounded them. As a young child, when I was gaining proficiency in the English language (Finnish is my first language) I was regularly exposed to, and influenced by, an aunt who was born in Finland, learned English in England, and my uncle met and married in Australia. ;D
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Inland North (whatever the hell that is) 85%. The Midland 80%.
Funny, two places I've never been (I don't think flying to South Bend for an overnighter, no not a football game, counts).
A question not asked but very pertinent on the coasts: 'llame'. Does the 'll' sound like:
a) L
b) Y
c) ZH
d) I didn't press '2' for Spanish
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Inland North (whatever the hell that is) 85%. The Midland 80%.
Well, as one who scored 100% Inland North, I would surmise that you probably sound a little bit like a Minnesotan.
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Inland North (whatever the hell that is) 85%. The Midland 80%.
Well, as one who scored 100% Inland North, I would surmise that you probably sound a little bit like a Minnesotan.
I'm told I sound like nobody, unless I try. In college, I did radio and was told I have the face voice for it. Now stick me in Nah'luns for a week and I'll definitely be giving a 'Mornin' darrlin'. Hower you?' greeting.
I grew up in the coastal South, about as far away from the 'inland north' as possible. So my fall back accent is Suth'n. Unless I'm having a cup of kwahffee.
I pick up regional accents when I travel, a blank slate who tries to fit in, so to speak. You get better food and liquor service if you speak the lingo dialect.
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Midland 95%
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Midland 95%
::thumbsup::