GalacticCactus Forum

Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Porter on February 16, 2005, 12:31:46 PM

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Porter on February 16, 2005, 12:31:46 PM

Here's the test (http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html).

48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Which is surprising, since I've only lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Brazil.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Brinestone on February 16, 2005, 12:35:44 PM

It annoys me that you guys wasn't even an option in the question whose response said you guys was favored in the northeast. That's what I say, dagnabbit!

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on February 16, 2005, 12:38:42 PM

That dad gum link thar didn't work, TaterHead.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on February 16, 2005, 12:46:24 PM

Ditto.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 16, 2005, 03:33:56 PM

I fixed the link. It should work now.


I got 48 percent Yankee, too. Odd, considering that most of the answers said "common throughout the U.S." or Great Lakes/Midwest/Intermountain West.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on February 16, 2005, 05:52:51 PM

52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.  I think Coke and Crawdad pushed me over the edge.  Other than that I'm right down the middle, which makes perfect sense.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: RRR on February 16, 2005, 06:24:30 PM

Quote

83% (Dixie).  Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

I do have a Confederate ancestor.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: rivka on February 16, 2005, 09:02:09 PM

58% Dixie. Which makes sense -- but too many questions had no good answer. Like, I use icing and frosting, but they don't mean exactly the same thing. Same with the two pronunciations of caramel.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on February 16, 2005, 09:36:13 PM

There are two different meanings for car(a)mel? Is one philosophical or something?

I'm 48% Yankee, which makes sense since I'm half Texas and half Wisconsin.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: rivka on February 16, 2005, 10:07:31 PM

:D

No, there are caramels (think Kraft) -- little chunks of semi-hard candy that soften when chewed or melted; and carmel -- goo that squirts out of candy bars when you bite them.

Of course, I have been known to use the one when I meant the other. And the boundary is admittedly, ah, mushy.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 17, 2005, 09:03:37 AM

See, the odd thing is that I'd define them in the opposite manner: carmels are those hard things in wrappers, but caramel is gooey.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 17, 2005, 09:24:32 AM

Here's a stupid question: what's the difference between 48 percent Yankee and 52 percent Dixie?

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on February 17, 2005, 10:21:25 AM

I think it's worded wrong. I think there's one absolute scale - 0% being total Yankee and 100% being total Dixie. That's why it told me that my 48% Yankee was just barely into the Yankee category. It should say - 48% (Yankee).

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 17, 2005, 10:24:57 AM

Ah. That makes sense.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Zalmoxis on February 17, 2005, 11:09:48 AM

41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

------
But that was going with my childhood accent/vocab. Let me try again Calif. style.

EDIT:

57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

????

That doesn't make sense to me. More of my answers switched to the 'use commonly throughout the U.S.' category. Perhaps those are scored as neutral or something.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: rav on February 19, 2005, 12:17:54 AM

43% yank.

Although some people seem to think i'm a canadian.. ???  

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 19, 2005, 09:10:42 AM

It's 'cause you're always saying "hoser."

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: rav on February 20, 2005, 05:27:49 PM

hahaha!
I don't even recall using that word, let alone around you guys.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 20, 2005, 05:49:08 PM

Maybe you monophthongize your /o/'s and /u/'s.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on February 21, 2005, 08:03:36 AM

If he does, he's sorry.

:P

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: rav on February 21, 2005, 07:58:27 PM

As far as I can tell I don't.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 21, 2005, 08:26:44 PM

I'd have to listen to you speak. But I don't remember you sounding particularly Canadian when I've seen you in person before.

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: rav on February 21, 2005, 09:14:17 PM

The only reason I said it was: When I went down to a BYU meet, and you or Brinestone had said I had a canadian accent. :P

Title: Yankee or Dixie?
Post by: Jonathon on February 22, 2005, 07:59:35 AM

That was one of us? I honestly don't remember that.