Where are you from?--language test

[DD]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

Surprisingly accurate: I got Baltimore (birthplace), D.C. (lived there too), and St. Louis. Never lived in the StL though.

[FkLA]

Got Tallahassee(Fl), Montgomery (Al) and Columbus (? right on the Ala/Ga border). Im not even close to a redneck tbh.

Least similar were Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Philly though. :tu

[spurraider21]

reasonably accurate, all 3 gave me california. I got Fremont, San Jose, and Santa Clarita. only santa clarita is from so-cal, though i've picked up a great deal of nor-cal vernacular from UCLA students, a ton of whom are from the bay area.

my 'defining answer' was freeway

[Darth_Pelican]

Completely accurate for me... New Orleans where I'm from and where I live, & Baton Rouge where I went to college. 3rd choice was Jackson

[spurraider21]

there were some hilarious terms that i didn't think were actually used by speakers of the english language. i guess others feel the same about answers i submitted

[Reck]

http://i61.tinypic.com/2rgc03d.jpg

I guess surveys dont lie.

[Reck]

reasonably accurate, all 3 gave me california. I got Fremont, San Jose, and Santa Clarita. only santa clarita is from so-cal, though i've picked up a great deal of nor-cal vernacular from UCLA students, a ton of whom are from the bay area.

my 'defining answer' was freeway

Sneakers was mine.

[Franklin]

I remember when I was in Sophomore year I had a casual chat with an English teacher on our campus and I didn't know her at all. She said my English was good and she had no problem understanding me. She said my accent sounded of Utah and North California, it made perfect sense because I was listening to Tom Leykis and John&Jeff a lot back then, both shows based in LA at the time. But I thought my accent sounded more Texan rather than Californian because my voice was sort of husky and I also listened to some Texan radios a lot, she was from LA so I guess she was more familiar to accents of California and other states nearby. But I have no idea how they can get a clue about where you are from just by the way you organize the words, without knowing the way you pronounce them.

[Franklin]

Sneakers was mine.
States with big immigrant populations (legal immigrants I mean, so Texas is written off) all tend to share similar styles of language, that's why so many New Yorkers have flourish in Hollywood, I think.

[NASpurs]

Stockton, California, Reno, Nevada and Irving, Texas.

East coast of the US for me was nothing but blue, white and yellow.

I live in SA.

[Technique]

Gawkblocker

[Brazil]

Lol that's not a test for me

[Darth_Pelican]

Sneakers was mine.

mine was Neutral Ground

[HI-FI]

Got Tallahassee(Fl), Montgomery (Al) and Columbus (? right on the Ala/Ga border). Im not even close to a redneck tbh.

Least similar were Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Philly though. :tu
:lol

I got your places of Laredo, San Antone and Plano, well except for Plano that's for the rich kid druggies.
Least similar were Buffalo, Rochester and Philly.

overall not that bad of a test. I've lived all over growing up so the regions that were most dissimilar were places I've never been.

[resistanze]

Fremont, San Jose and Wichita :lol

[spurraider21]

Wichita :lol
wtf :lol

[DD]

The most incriminating term of the whole test is "yinz" in Question 1. If you selected that they would probably stop the test right there and tell you Pittsburgh. Yinz gonna go donton and watch the Stillers?

[baseline bum]

I'm from Crenshaw Mafia, you African booty-scratcher.

[Sybok]

Not even close. Tarian 5... lol

[baseline bum]

LOL, San Antonio was my #1 pick because I used the phrase "access road" for the road next to the highway.

St Louis #2 because I pronounce "cot" and "caught" differently.

Irving, Tx #3 because I called an easy class a "blow off".

[baseline bum]

If they really wanted to narrow it to Texas they should have asked if you call a gas station an ice house. I never heard the end of it from my friends in California when I kept calling them ice houses when I lived in LA. :lol

[baseline bum]

my 'defining answer' was freeway

LOL, forgot everyone calls the highway that in Cali.

[jeebus]

Most similar: Portland, SA, Cleveland. wtf? :lol

[spurraider21]

LOL, forgot everyone calls the highway that in Cali.
:cry its not what we call it, its what it IS

[Floyd Pacquiao]

got me right...Gave me SA, Irving and Huntsville ....

[spurraider21]

Not even close. Tarian 5... lol
:lol

[FkLA]

If they really wanted to narrow it to Texas they should have asked if you call a gas station an ice house. I never heard the end of it from my friends in California when I kept calling them ice houses when I lived in LA. :lol

:wtf

Ive never heard anyone here call a gas station an ice house tbh.

[DJR210]

I'm from Crenshaw Mafia, you African booty-scratcher.

I'll get my brother to shoot you in the face

Also, my three were San Antonio (:lol because of "y'all"), Laredo, and Denver.


:wtf

Ive never heard anyone here call a gas station an ice house tbh.

It's an older generation thing, my Dad is 73 and uses "ice house". He grew up in the courts on the west side.

[chunticakes]

honolulu, san jose, and some place in oregon lol wtf.

[baseline bum]

I'll get my brother to shoot you in the face

Get your punk-ass brother bitch. I'll get my daddy; least I got one motherfucker.

[Fpoonsie]

Heh. Got Ft. Worth.

Considering I live in Denton, ...not bad.

[DJR210]

Get your punk-ass brother bitch. I'll get my daddy; least I got one motherfucker.

Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Hi, Georgie! Aren't cha gonna say... *hello*?
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [shakes head]
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Awww, come on bucko! Don't you want a... balloon?
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers; My dad said so.
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Very wise of ya dad, Georgie - very wise indeed. I Georgie, am Pennywise the Dancin Clown- and you, are Georgie! So now we know each other! Keeerect?
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I guess so... I gotta go.
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Go? Without this?
[showing Georgie his fallen paper boat]
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [cries out] It's My Boat!
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): EEX-actly! Go on Kiddo... Take it.
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [unsure about reaching into the storm drain for his boat]
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Awww... You want it don't you Georgie? Hmm... Of course you do... and there's cotton candy, and rides, and all sorts of surprises down here... and balloons too... All colors.
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Do they float?
[Georgie then reaches in for his boat]
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [Pennywise's face begins changing from a smile to a frown] Ohh yes... They Float Georgie... They Float... and when your down here, with me... YOU FLOAT TOO!
[Pennywise grabs Georgie's arm and pulls him toward the storm drain]

[Borosai]

San Jose, Fremont, Miami/Hialeah.

Nope.

[baseline bum]

Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Hi, Georgie! Aren't cha gonna say... *hello*?
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [shakes head]
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Awww, come on bucko! Don't you want a... balloon?
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers; My dad said so.
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Very wise of ya dad, Georgie - very wise indeed. I Georgie, am Pennywise the Dancin Clown- and you, are Georgie! So now we know each other! Keeerect?
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): I guess so... I gotta go.
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Go? Without this?
[showing Georgie his fallen paper boat]
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [cries out] It's My Boat!
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): EEX-actly! Go on Kiddo... Take it.
George 'Georgie' Elmer Denbrough (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197515/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [unsure about reaching into the storm drain for his boat]
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Awww... You want it don't you Georgie? Hmm... Of course you do... and there's cotton candy, and rides, and all sorts of surprises down here... and balloons too... All colors.
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Do they float?
[Georgie then reaches in for his boat]
Pennywise (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [Pennywise's face begins changing from a smile to a frown] Ohh yes... They Float Georgie... They Float... and when your down here, with me... YOU FLOAT TOO!
[Pennywise grabs Georgie's arm and pulls him toward the storm drain]

Don't you know there's a dead body here?

[redzero]

It was accurate for me even though I gave probably the least helpful answers half the time. Something is fishy.

[DJR210]

Don't you know there's a dead body here?

Hey Cinderella, go find yourself a fella. You're on the clock bitch and midnight is coming.

[Splits]

LOL, San Antonio was my #1 pick because I used the phrase "access road" for the road next to the highway.


Same. Didn't realize that was unique to SA

[spurraider21]

looks like san jose and fremont are assigned in pairs.

[FkLA]

Heh. Got Ft. Worth.

Considering I live in Denton, ...not bad.

unt ?

[CuckingFunt]

Modesto and Fresno, CA, both because I say "firefly," and Boise, ID because I say "kitty-corner."

Modesto and Fresno both make sense since my parents both grew up in central California and I obviously picked up a lot of my speech patterns from them. I've never even set foot in Boise, though.

[The Gemini Method]

Mine were Long Beach (CA), Glendale (CA) Whattup spurraider21, and Corona (CA) how apropos.

[The Gemini Method]

Same. Didn't realize that was unique to SA

They call it Access Road out here in California, too.

[CuckingFunt]

They call it Access Road out here in California, too.

I grew up in California and always heard "frontage road."

[The Gemini Method]

I grew up in California and always heard "frontage road."

Maybe its a NorCal/SoCal thing? When I would roll with my friend who worked with me at the City (different departments) we'd go down the Access Roads to cut around the traffic on the 710 Freeway.

[CuckingFunt]

Maybe its a NorCal/SoCal thing? When I would roll with my friend who worked with me at the City (different departments) we'd go down the Access Roads to cut around the traffic on the 710 Freeway.

Could be. Could also be another central California thing. I grew up going back and forth between Pasadena and the Bay Area (and have lived throughout the state at various points, including long stretches in Stockton and Arcata), so with the exception of a few really obviously regional things (like "hella") I have a hard time remembering which speech pattern comes from which part of the state. Both of my parents and my extended families always said frontage road, though, and they grew up in Stockton and Concord.

[The Gemini Method]

Could be. Could also be another central California thing. I grew up going back and forth between Pasadena and the Bay Area (and have lived throughout the state at various points, including long stretches in Stockton and Arcata), so with the exception of a few really obviously regional things (like "hella") I have a hard time remembering which speech pattern comes from which part of the state. Both of my parents and my extended families always said frontage road, though, and they grew up in Stockton and Concord. I have fam in Stockton and Santa Cruz. I am from the Southern part and I could be wrong as well. It also could be a Long Beach thing as the city has this complex that it is not L.A., not L.A. county, and is its own entity. Thus if you were to get into legal trouble in Long Beach, chances are L.A. and L.A. County wouldn't know about it unless they dig deeper into your background.

[tlongII]

Apparently I talk like I'm from Minnesota. Never lived there.

[SnakeBoy]

Gave me San Antonio for using access road and Irving/Fort Worth for using ya'll. Pretty good since I'm from San Antonio and my dad's family is from Fort Worth.

[gameFACE]

Gave me San Antonio for using access road and Irving/Fort Worth for using ya'll. Pretty good since I'm from San Antonio and my dad's family is from Fort Worth.

How did you and Baseline Bum get SA for y'all?! I got Shreveport for y'all. I'm from SA. Used access road too. It also gave me Little Rock for lawyer. Also got Lubbock. smh These New York Times vatos need to come down to SA and see how we really talk. Little Rock?! I wear shoes, man.

[benefactor]

Accurate indeed...Irving, Shreveport, Houston. I live dead in between Dallas and Shreveport and have a bunch of family from the Houston area.

[ploto]

All of mine are in Texas (Arlington, Ft. Worth, and Irving). Given that I have lived my entire life in Texas, that is not so bad; however, I have never lived near any of those cities.

[ginobili's bald spot]

Modesto and Fresno, CA, both because I say "firefly," and Boise, ID because I say "kitty-corner."

Modesto and Fresno both make sense since my parents both grew up in central California and I obviously picked up a lot of my speech patterns from them. I've never even set foot in Boise, though.

I got Modesto too. Along with Corona and Santa Rosa. I guess that means I have a general California accent. Of course New Orleans is my least similar since I speak English.

[Huey Freeman]

http://i61.tinypic.com/2rgc03d.jpg

I guess surveys dont lie.

Mine lied to me :lol. Said I was from Irving / San Antonio. I was born and raised in Queens. My parents are from the DFW area tho. So maybe I got my speech from them.

[cute_spursfan]

Mannnnn, whatever!!! Shit said Reno...I'm from
newyawkkk, B.

[Kyle Orton]

I got plano/Irving/mobile

really accurate tbh, I'm from McKinney which is 10-15 mjn away from plano

[Mugen]

Mine were Long Beach (CA), Glendale (CA) Whattup spurraider21 (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=31905), and Corona (CA) how apropos.

Ditto except I got Santa Clarita instead of Long Beach which is even more accurate since I grew up in the SFV.

I take offense to Corona since I don't do meth nor am I an Armenian living in Glendale...

Also, the only time I call a freeway a highway is on the drive to Vegas tbh.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I got Chandler/Scottsdale which is basically Phoenix, pretty accurate.

[Blizzardwizard]

I'm English and live in England and got New York. Guess it makes some sense as it's probably the nearest major city to England..

Also

"car-mel" :lol

[Chinook]

Ugh! I got three NY/NJ cities. At least Austin was in the "warm" category. I speak nothing like a Northeaster. I demand a recount.

[Huey Freeman]

Ugh! I got three NY/NJ cities. At least Austin was in the "warm" category. I speak nothing like a Northeaster. I demand a recount.

You should take it as a compliment tbh. Sounds to me you speak very eloquently.

Good for you.

[Chinook]

You should take it as a compliment tbh. Sounds to me you speak very eloquently.

Good for you.

Lol. Thanks, but I'm fine being a Southerner. I think that test is outdated.

[lefty]

Seattle
Tacoma
Madison

[leemajors]

Lol. Thanks, but I'm fine being a Southerner. I think that test is outdated.

Esp with all the media available these days, you can hear everything.

[dirk4mvp]

Little Rock, Jackson, and Columbus Ga tbh

I don't care fuck those n¥ggers etc

[z0sa]

Aced it - San Antonio, Austin, Fort Worth. I've spent considerable time in the former two.

[RandomGuy]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

Surprisingly accurate: I got Baltimore (birthplace), D.C. (lived there too), and St. Louis. Never lived in the StL though.

Think about where your parents are from and it might make a bit more sense.

Some of the things like catty-corner and crawdad are words I got from my Mom, who is from Iowa, even though I am from Wyoming.

[helwardman]

It says I'm from Jackson, Philadelphia or Newark. I'm from England and live in Louisiana.