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What is your American dialect?
Gene Expression ^ | 16 Sept 2013 | Razib Khan

Posted on 09/16/2013 11:54:23 AM PDT by Theoria

Razib’s Dialect Similarity

Language dialect is something that we often pick up unconsciously, so I find it an interesting if narcissistic project to query my own dialect affinities. The above was generated using a 140 question test (warning: server often slow). In case you were curious, my most ‘similar’ city (to my dialect) is Sunnyvale, California. Though most of my life has been spent on the West coast of the United States, I did spend my elementary age years in upstate New York. You can see evidence of that in the heat-map. There are particular words I use and pronunciations that I have which I know are probably relics of my formative years, but it was a little surprising that this survey picked up on that, as I thought most of them had disappeared.


TOPICS: History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: anthropology; dialect; language; linguistics; speech
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Pretty cool. As ya can see the author[Raz] is most dissimilar to the South.
1 posted on 09/16/2013 11:54:23 AM PDT by Theoria
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“Server overloaded

Sorry, but the server is too busy to fulfill this request right now. Please try again later.”

Too many people reading the article and trying to take the test I guess.


2 posted on 09/16/2013 11:56:06 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Theoria

I speak SlimPickenese, sorta the way Robert Duvall has learned to talk. It comes naturally to us in rural AZ.


3 posted on 09/16/2013 11:57:05 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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To: Theoria

Yinz think this is a heat map n’at???


4 posted on 09/16/2013 11:57:09 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Theoria; KittenClaws

Their server was overloaded!

Ping to myself for later


5 posted on 09/16/2013 11:57:11 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Theoria

Notice where Missouri laps over into southern Iowa...


6 posted on 09/16/2013 12:00:15 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Theoria
Represent!


7 posted on 09/16/2013 12:00:21 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Theoria

I’m a native Californian, but the last time I took one of these linguistic tests, it pegged me in the dead center of the Midwest. Probably a remnant of my Army brat upbringing.


8 posted on 09/16/2013 12:01:11 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Theoria

Fortunately my parents did not move here to Picksburgh n’at until after I had learned to speak.


9 posted on 09/16/2013 12:02:42 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Theoria

Dat dere link y’all ah posted taint a’workin’ fer me.


10 posted on 09/16/2013 12:04:33 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yeah. Real interesting. You can really pick out Atlanta in Georgia and Charlotte region in NC. Just purely on his language testing.


11 posted on 09/16/2013 12:04:46 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: edh

I’ll have ta check back later. Have to red up da haas first!


12 posted on 09/16/2013 12:04:50 PM PDT by sneakers
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I speak authentic frontier gibberish too.


13 posted on 09/16/2013 12:05:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Theoria

bfl


14 posted on 09/16/2013 12:07:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Wouldnt an interactive sound data test be wonderful?

Id like to know how much of My Midwest Accent I have lost...since moving to God Forsake Northern California... forty some years ago.

theres probably some Broadcast industry consultant willing to run such tests for a few grand....../s


15 posted on 09/16/2013 12:08:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Theoria

igpay atinlay


16 posted on 09/16/2013 12:12:10 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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The map shows that the New Orleans “Yat” accent is similar to other southern dialects. IT IS NOT. It’s closer to a Brooklyn accent. And the Cajun dialect is also a different story!


17 posted on 09/16/2013 12:12:22 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’m told that Brown Broadcasting Institute in Minneapolis will cure just about any accent...


18 posted on 09/16/2013 12:14:29 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Theoria

I speak Hall County redneck, where we warsh and wrench our hands afore supper.


19 posted on 09/16/2013 12:19:03 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: Bigg Red

MARK


20 posted on 09/16/2013 12:24:24 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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