Take the test and see which part of the US you speak most like
I'm very much a new yorker so ey i'm walkin ere and all that, but hey you may be all southerner and be like wot in tarnation, but hey you never try you never know, you never know if you don't go, you never shine if you don't glow
If there was a map made for GB I bet the map would be all blue spare for the small dot where you live.
Well if that's the case, wouldn't this quiz be applied to Americans? Regardless, there are more various combinations to make depending on the countries. For example, you could be a Canadian, born in France, have Asian parents, and be very fluent in Spanish, and see how this have led to you to express your language depending on these aspects.
Even then this quiz is not meant to be taken as an accurate result of which country speaks the same language and dialect as you do, but the most similar instead.
Mine had a bit of orange out in the north-west and light blue out east, which is odd considering I was born in Georgia, grew up in Michigan, and never set foot west of the Mississippi River until just a few years ago (well, I guess technically I flew through San Francisco's airport on my way to Japan in college, but a couple hours in a terminal are hardly going to be long enough to be influenced by the culture, right?)
Then again, fully half my answers showed the map as being predominantly blue, so I guess I should just be happy it found as much a match as it did!
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"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Mine had a bit of orange out in the north-west and light blue out east, which is odd considering I was born in Georgia, grew up in Michigan, and never set foot west of the Mississippi River until just a few years ago (well, I guess technically I flew through San Francisco's airport on my way to Japan in college, but a couple hours in a terminal are hardly going to be long enough to be influenced by the culture, right?)
Then again, fully half my answers showed the map as being predominantly blue, so I guess I should just be happy it found as much a match as it did!
I screenshot and cropped mine, that is how I assume everyone else did it.
Mine had a bit of orange out in the north-west and light blue out east, which is odd considering I was born in Georgia, grew up in Michigan, and never set foot west of the Mississippi River until just a few years ago (well, I guess technically I flew through San Francisco's airport on my way to Japan in college, but a couple hours in a terminal are hardly going to be long enough to be influenced by the culture, right?)
Then again, fully half my answers showed the map as being predominantly blue, so I guess I should just be happy it found as much a match as it did!
Snipping tool is really easy since it gives you options to copy or save the image. If you have windows then just search for it in the search bar thingy.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
I was being serious. Looking plainly at the English language, you see that the majority of people with English as a first language live in the USA. The other nations where English is a common first language (UK, Australia, and New Zealand) are all far flung island territories and thus it makes sense that, after being colonized by Americans, their native populations adopted the language of their homeland.
You can also see a lot of diversity and fragmentation within the English language located in the USA with many different accents arising over the large geographic area. This level of fragmentation can only be explained through a long history of English being present there, furthering the case that the language originated there as it has been there longest of all.
It's hard to believe that free thinking people like yourselves would be so easily fooled by the propaganda of a long dead empire that is just trying to retain some wanton remnant of their former glory.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
Take the test and see which part of the US you speak most like
I'm very much a new yorker so ey i'm walkin ere and all that, but hey you may be all southerner and be like wot in tarnation, but hey you never try you never know, you never know if you don't go, you never shine if you don't glow
Why is it only a measure for America when there's so many forms of english dialect around the world. This is a whole new level of white-washing!
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You're kidding, right? Who cares?
By the way, you forgot to capitalize 'English,' how disrespectful!
You may want to read my post while you still can, some of them have been randomly disappearing lately *cough*
Well, English originated in the USA so it's appropriate that the dialects are from there.
If y'all want yo see the proof, I believe there's a section on Guns, Germs, and Steel that talks about English's American origins.
Anywho, interesting test. My results:
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
Not surprised given I live just across the border on the west coast:
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>America
>white-washing
top kek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
On topic though:
I honestly didn't even understand 70% of the terms on that quiz.
America, truly is, a strange, peculiar, place. comma.
While I could see why Hawaii and Boston are so red, why San Jose went so red is frankly one big blank in my mind.
This is funny considering I'm Irish. California ftw :-)
- C.C.
Mine
Well if that's the case, wouldn't this quiz be applied to Americans? Regardless, there are more various combinations to make depending on the countries. For example, you could be a Canadian, born in France, have Asian parents, and be very fluent in Spanish, and see how this have led to you to express your language depending on these aspects.
Even then this quiz is not meant to be taken as an accurate result of which country speaks the same language and dialect as you do, but the most similar instead.
How are you guys posting the maps like that?
Mine had a bit of orange out in the north-west and light blue out east, which is odd considering I was born in Georgia, grew up in Michigan, and never set foot west of the Mississippi River until just a few years ago (well, I guess technically I flew through San Francisco's airport on my way to Japan in college, but a couple hours in a terminal are hardly going to be long enough to be influenced by the culture, right?)
Then again, fully half my answers showed the map as being predominantly blue, so I guess I should just be happy it found as much a match as it did!
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
I screenshot and cropped mine, that is how I assume everyone else did it.
- C.C.
Hm.
Snipping tool is really easy since it gives you options to copy or save the image. If you have windows then just search for it in the search bar thingy.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
He's right you know
He wasn't being serious.
Just look at the facts...
I was being serious. Looking plainly at the English language, you see that the majority of people with English as a first language live in the USA. The other nations where English is a common first language (UK, Australia, and New Zealand) are all far flung island territories and thus it makes sense that, after being colonized by Americans, their native populations adopted the language of their homeland.
You can also see a lot of diversity and fragmentation within the English language located in the USA with many different accents arising over the large geographic area. This level of fragmentation can only be explained through a long history of English being present there, furthering the case that the language originated there as it has been there longest of all.
It's hard to believe that free thinking people like yourselves would be so easily fooled by the propaganda of a long dead empire that is just trying to retain some wanton remnant of their former glory.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
Why does it have to be necessarily the US? I'm not American. T R I G G E R E D
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I'm most like Minneapolis & Portland. Explains a lot, I'm from Portland xD
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