Miss.B, you only forget those things if you don't care. If you care about English grammar and usage you remember. I did. Of course, I've forgotten every bit of trig I ever learned, but then people don't communicate with Math. /SheilaT
Posted by: Sierra
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 17:50:09 2012
Message:
Amazing! I have lived in Philadelphia my whole life and the test said - Philadelphia, LOL!
Posted by: leolover
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 17:49:59 2012
Message:
That was fun, I got the Midlands (no accent, but of course, I'm Canadian and we don't have an accent :)
I read this on Wikipedia so I guess the test is pretty accurate: Canada has very little dialect diversity compared to the United States.[4] The phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon for most of Canada are similar to that of the Western and Midland regions of the United States
I saw a documentary one time about a man with amnesia (sounds like AMC...) but they tried to pinpoint what area of the US he was from by his accent as well as local phrases etc he used. It was really interesting and they managed to narrow it down to a very small area.
Posted by: SqueezeMe
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 13:42:34 2012
Message:
It's says I'm from ... The South! duh.
That was fun, MM. Thanks.
Posted by: Grandma b@s
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 10:49:56 2012
Message:
Said I had a Midland accent or no accent at all.... on another note I took the True Texan test and only got 42% HA... I've lived in TX all my life but the questions it had were really stupid. AND some were WRONG anyway.
Replies: (list all replies)
I agree with Grandma. I'm a native Texan and the test results were wrong. Holly
Posted by: SheilaT
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 8:30:34 2012
Message:
It said I was from the Northeast. That's a pretty huge region! I was raised in Maryland (DC suburb) but born in Massachusetts, and both my parents were born and raised there. I and all my sibs talk like a mix between MA and DC . . .perfect, in other words LOL!
Replies: (list all replies)
I was also born in Massachusetts (Brookline) but lived in Brooklyn, NY my whole life. MM
Correcting: Lived in Brooklyn most of my life. I've been in South Florida the last eighteen years. MM
I don't know how it was able to detect where I was from. Maybe it was because I answered all the questions correctly and they figured I must be from up north near the Great Lakes where there are no accents, it's true.
Posted by: Wendi
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 8:13:37 2012
Message:
Hey Isis, I'll share that cheesesteak with you! Even though I've been in Florida more than half my life, it still detected my native Philly accent. Cool!
Posted by: Miss.Bear
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 3:41:56 2012
Message:
I was told I was from the inland north. It said something like I may think I speak English out of the dictionary(I do) but when I step out of the Great Lakes area am asked if I am from Chicago or Wisconsin. It also said I probably refer to carbonated beverages as "pop". So true! I rarely exist the Great Lakes area but on the rare occasion I do I have been asked where I was from, and I DO refer to my carbonated beverages as "pop". I am from the Chicago area, we don't have accents, everyone else does.
Posted by: Tex
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 1:03:17 2012
Message:
Mine said Midland...then ended with ''...but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas.'' I think that my accent is all over the place because of all the places I lived when I was an Air Force Wife. I know that I don't have the same accent as all my siblings who have all lived mostly in Texas.
Posted by: W.E.
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 0:40:58 2012
Message:
It said north Jersey. Have they been listening in on my phone calls?
Replies: (list all replies)
lol! ///Isis
Posted by: Isis
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 0:18:14 2012
Message:
LMAO!!!! It said I'm as Philadelpian as a cheesesteak!!!Said if youre not from philly youre from somewhere near there!!!! Couldn't have been more dead on!!!
Replies: (list all replies)
Apparently, I enjoyed the site so much, I posted TWICE!!! LOL!! ///Isis
Posted by: Isis
Date posted: Thu Jan 19 0:04:24 2012
Message:
LMAO!!!! It said I'm as Philadelpian as a cheesesteak!!!Said if youre not from philly youre from somewhere near there!!!! Couldn't have been more dead on!!!
Posted by: Cinnamon Girl
Date posted: Wed Jan 18 23:12:02 2012
Message:
My results were "Midland" and that I probably don't have an accent? But I'm a native Californian, so go figure.
Posted by: goldie
Date posted: Wed Jan 18 19:36:56 2012
Message:
Wow, mine was the South, which is kind of true, I live in Texas, not real South.
Posted by: MamaMia
Date posted: Wed Jan 18 19:10:48 2012
Message:
(I'm confused about Sheila T.'s post above that says Accent Test).........................I wonder how that happened.
Replies: (list all replies)
It was the typical cyber crash between two posts at 5am. /SheilaT
Interesting. Thanks for clearing that up for me. MM
