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Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Jonathon on January 19, 2006, 10:55:47 PM

I just found this nifty little quiz. (http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/map/map.html) It was actually harder than I thought. I put a lot of them in an adjacent dialect.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: pooka on January 20, 2006, 07:08:32 AM

If I'd know the one sentence began with "bob" and not "I", that might have altered my answers.  I think I only got 2 right.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Teshi on January 20, 2006, 08:52:52 AM

I got one right, one of the southern ones, but other than that one, they all sound the same!

(to me)

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Brinestone on February 17, 2006, 07:29:55 AM

I missed four. I'm with pooka on the "Bob" one; I had no idea what she was saying except that "jackknife" was in there somewhere. The one that was supposed to be Midwestern sounded distinctly mid-Atlantic to me (especially her pronunciation of pool), but maybe I'm crazy.

At any rate, I missed A, C, G, and I. I got both Western ones and both Southern ones (yay!) and one in each of the other categories.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on February 17, 2006, 07:57:58 AM

I got the southern ones right, and was dead wrong on the western ones.  I thought the 'car' was 'cow'.  Total, I got five right.  D, K, B, H, and I.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Jonathon on February 17, 2006, 09:10:00 AM

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I missed four. I'm with pooka on the "Bob" one; I had no idea what she was saying except that "jackknife" was in there somewhere.

"Bob was cut by the jackknife's blade."

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Brinestone on February 17, 2006, 09:32:21 AM

What an odd sentence. If I had known she was saying "Bob," it would have been immediately obvious that she was northeastern.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Mr. Anderson on February 17, 2006, 12:50:53 PM

I got three right.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Brinestone on February 17, 2006, 01:01:09 PM

How many did you miss the first time, Jonathon?

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Jonathon on February 17, 2006, 01:03:18 PM

Four or five, I think.

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: saxon75 on February 17, 2006, 02:25:55 PM

That makes me feel so good about myself! :)

<--- missed 4

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Mr. Anderson on February 17, 2006, 03:13:49 PM

*awards a trophy*

Title: Guess the dialect
Post by: Bok on February 17, 2006, 05:08:18 PM

I got one right in each section.

-Bok