Saturday, March 24, 2007
Saturday's Silly Stupid Kviz
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak. | |
| The Midland | |
| The Inland North | |
| Philadelphia | |
| Boston | |
| The South | |
| The West | |
| North Central | |
| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
Incidentally, never set foot in any Northeast city except for Boston, and that was because coming home from BiH after my first trip, my plane landed in Logan .... however, the point of entry for many of my relatives arriving to the U.S. was Boston, others ended up in New York, and a bunch were in North Carolina. Personally, I have lived my life West of the Missisipi.
# posted by Katja R. @ 10:03 AM 
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I took this quiz on messageboard I frequently visit; and we had a lot of conversations over it (and over how people from other parts of the country, and those who live in other countries but speak English, pronounce words -particularly the mary, merry, marry)to me, they all sound exactly the same.
My results were 100% inland north. which isn't shocking since i'm from the chicagoland area; and attended school in wisconsin.
My results were 100% inland north. which isn't shocking since i'm from the chicagoland area; and attended school in wisconsin.
Well I mostly have lived out West, except for time in Mexico, and time in Ireland and in BiH and Croatia. I should have come out more Midwest, simply because my mother was from Minneapolis.I'm something of an accent chameleon. I don't imitate other people's accents at all well, but if I'm around enough people who speak a certain way, I will pick up a little bit of it, but basically that goes away fast.
I used to do speech team in high school, and we competed with some kids who attended school in Southern Illinois near Kuntucky and without realizing it, the entire day I was immitating their accent and speaking with a Southern drawl throughout the entire day!
That's pretty funny Shaina! :)
I too used to do speech team in my high school, we moved just when I would have lettered in Speech! :(!
Back when I was growing up, there wasw no NPR, so to get news with another perspective, my family used to listen to the BBC on shortwave.
I think the fact I speak as I do has to do with where my family lived in San Francisco, we lived in the Mission District, at that time a heavily Irish part of town, with small numbers of Croats and Italians, Mexicans and a very tiny number of California Spanish families.
I will never forget the first Arabs to move into the neighborhood.It was a huge deal, because everyone assumed they must be Muslims, we all thought the ladies would wear veils etc. It was pretty exciting to us kids. Then we went to their tiny store. They as it turned out, were Christians from Jerusalem, and they opened a sort of candy store in the foyer of their building. They sold candy bars cheaper than the regular corner store, and sodas too, so the kids who just wanted candy and didn't want to walk too far went there, rang the doorbell, and they let you in the foyer and you bought.
Now that neighborhood isn't Irish at all. It's EVERYTHING, and predictably how people speak changed. I'm probably of the last generation to have a true Mission District accent!
My kids grew up in the Soviet of Washington, and while some old-timers speak like Elmer Fudd, the majority of Washingtonians have no strong accent.
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I too used to do speech team in my high school, we moved just when I would have lettered in Speech! :(!
Back when I was growing up, there wasw no NPR, so to get news with another perspective, my family used to listen to the BBC on shortwave.
I think the fact I speak as I do has to do with where my family lived in San Francisco, we lived in the Mission District, at that time a heavily Irish part of town, with small numbers of Croats and Italians, Mexicans and a very tiny number of California Spanish families.
I will never forget the first Arabs to move into the neighborhood.It was a huge deal, because everyone assumed they must be Muslims, we all thought the ladies would wear veils etc. It was pretty exciting to us kids. Then we went to their tiny store. They as it turned out, were Christians from Jerusalem, and they opened a sort of candy store in the foyer of their building. They sold candy bars cheaper than the regular corner store, and sodas too, so the kids who just wanted candy and didn't want to walk too far went there, rang the doorbell, and they let you in the foyer and you bought.
Now that neighborhood isn't Irish at all. It's EVERYTHING, and predictably how people speak changed. I'm probably of the last generation to have a true Mission District accent!
My kids grew up in the Soviet of Washington, and while some old-timers speak like Elmer Fudd, the majority of Washingtonians have no strong accent.
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