[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Dialect Quiz (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 9/24/2013 2:49:39 PM EDT
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Is this quiz valid for you?
http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/DialectQuiz/ It came pretty close for me. The server it is on gets busy, so bookmark it and try it when you can. |
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Damn, it guessed the city where I was born and my whole family is from as number 2 on the list. The #1 guess was almost the same place.
EDIT: I told it where I live now, but not where I grew up, so the fact that it was so close on where my dialect is from is based entirely on the answers I gave to the questions, not based on the cities I input at the end. |
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When it asked about what you call multiple people, and also asked about crustaceans living in the fresh water, I knew they'd find me. Really ? Those are gimmie questions.
Yeah, my answers were, Y'all , and Crawdads. Any other Southerners feel that way ? Still, asking for your address, which I didn't give them other than state , before they show you the map, seems like cheating. I'm gonna take the 140 word test, and enter New York , New York as my state. I wonder what the results would be, just answering truthfully on the words? |
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Quoted: It was valid for me, but it displays the matches after you tell it where you're from and where you grew up. So, yeah. ETA: My hometown was #5 on the list, though. |
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Waste of time. I did it twice, once put down correct information, and lo and behold it guessed that Augusta/Richmond County GA was where I was from, with cities within 100 miles being similar. Same answers but giving Chicago Il, as my location and guess where my dialect fits? Yeah, Chicago. ETA: Went through it a third time, once again gave honest answers, this time at the end I told it I lived in St. Louis, lived in Oklahoma City, it told me my dialect most closely resembles cities in TX. |
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Quoted: When it asked about what you call multiple people, and also asked about crustaceans living in the fresh water, I knew they'd find me. Really ? Those are gimmie questions. Yeah, my answers were, Y'all , and Crawdads. Any other Southerners feel that way ? We eat them here, therefore we get to pick the name... Sorry them's the rules |
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No... The proper word is Crawfish. We eat them here, therefore we get to pick the name... Sorry them's the rules Quoted:
Quoted:
When it asked about what you call multiple people, and also asked about crustaceans living in the fresh water, I knew they'd find me. Really ? Those are gimmie questions. Yeah, my answers were, Y'all , and Crawdads. Any other Southerners feel that way ? We eat them here, therefore we get to pick the name... Sorry them's the rules We eat them too. We also eat Possum, Coon, and other things. We just killed off all the Frenchies here. 
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Was born in Fort Worth, TX.
Did not live there long. My #1 guess was...Fort Worth, TX. All the others were somewhere in TX. I find this amusing because in person, I confuse the hell out of people. Nobody can figure out where I'm from. I get either ridiculous guesses of where I'm from based on my "accent" or people will tell me I don't have an accent. This is somewhat intentional, as my job requires a fair bit of speaking to a varied audience, so I've tailored my speech not unlike news broadcasters that use somewhat of a "neutral" accent. I speak clearly with the intent of being understood by everyone. I never use filler words like um, uhh, err, and so on. Perhaps that is what confuses people. Most people around here can't say 3 words without two of them being a filler word. 
It's rare that people can guess where I'm from. I guarantee you it's because of the words that I use, and not the way that I say things. Interestingly, that's how this test seems to have figured it out. It asked me a lot of questions on what word I would use to describe something, not many about how I would say it. |
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So entirely, wholly, absolutely, completely fucking wrong.
Never been to fucking Allentown PA, Rochester NY, Pittsburgh PA, or Syracuse NY. I am glad to see that I am not anywhere near the dialects that match the likes of the publicly-educated, meth-eating dolts in Metaire LA, New Orleans LA, Chicago IL, Naperville IL and Rockford IL. |
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When it asked about what you call multiple people, and also asked about crustaceans living in the fresh water, I knew they'd find me. Really ? Those are gimmie questions. Yeah, my answers were, Y'all , and Crawdads. Any other Southerners feel that way ? Still, asking for your address, which I didn't give them other than state , before they show you the map, seems like cheating. I'm gonna take the 140 word test, and enter New York , New York as my state. I wonder what the results would be, just answering truthfully on the words? Yea, those were my answers. Along with roly poly. Who the hell calls it a pill bug? |
Died on my results page and the map never loaded... 
R FTW. Quoted:
The data collection is completely optional - you can leave it blank. I wonder if they are cheating based upon IP addresses  Given the quiz's sponsor and that fact that he built this as a fun use of R, I doubt that. I expect that users are geolocated and they use the user-entered geo data to test their predictions. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jakatz2/project-dialect.html Which also explains why it cannot correctly determine my hometown. |
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Quoted:
No... The proper word is Crawfish. We eat them here, therefore we get to pick the name... Sorry them's the rules Quoted:
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When it asked about what you call multiple people, and also asked about crustaceans living in the fresh water, I knew they'd find me. Really ? Those are gimmie questions. Yeah, my answers were, Y'all , and Crawdads. Any other Southerners feel that way ? We eat them here, therefore we get to pick the name... Sorry them's the rules QFT lol 
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I didn't give any of the demographic information, it was about 300 miles off the best match from my home town.
Oddly enough the best match was a city of the same name, just in the wrong state. I had an English professor that said one of his instructors in Scotland was able to tell him where he was originally from in Mississippi within about 25 miles. And that's with primarily just accent by ear. For the students that grew up there in Edinburgh he could at least get the block, and sometimes the address they were born at. |
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I think ARFCOM is crashing yet another server.
Edit: So even after living in VA for 15 some odd years(about half my life) I still speak like a Yankee.  Damn I'd really stick out if I ever moved to Texas.  Seems pretty accurate for where I was born and grew up in PA. BTW: I use my current location for both of the location questions . So there's no way the quiz would know.  |