Have y'all taken this little quiz up there?
I've taken it three times (the questions aren't always the same), and each time, my top answer says I'm from LOUISVILLE.
This freaks me out just a tiny little bit...that I can be so easily profiled! Like on Criminal Minds...not that I'm a serial killer or anything, but still!
It does remind me of 5 or 6 years ago, when my family and I were doing Derby Day at the Whirlaway Room at Trackside. Our server for the day was so sweet, and at one point she said something like, 'I'm going on break, do you'uns need anything right now?'
YOU'UNS.
The only people I've ever heard say that is my great-grandmother and great-aunt...I looked at her and said, are you from down near Eastern Kentucky, like from London, Kentucky, maybe?
OMG I freaked her out so bad she almost had to sit down...I sent over to my grandma's table to see if they were related, everyone from down there is related. Everything you've heard about Appalachia is true.
G'night!
:)
That was fun. I got Rockford, IL, which is 90 minutes away from where I spent 20 years.
ReplyDeleteVery cool!
DeleteYup, it pops me right in northern New Jersey, which is where I grew up... Springsteen County. :-)
ReplyDeleteIn college, I had friends from all the surrounding metro areas... from Baltimore to Boston. We came up with a single phrase that everyone seemed to say differently, and could be used in a similar way as this quiz, I suppose. The phrase was "chocolate frog in an office". Those "o" vowels shifted ALL over the place. :-)
Too cool...I so love to hear different accents when I'm on the phone at work.
DeleteI've actually said that many times. A friend of mine used to say, I'm going over to mammer-n-nims house.
ReplyDeleteYou've said 'you-uns', specifically? Where are you from? Or did you get it from your parents, maybe?
Deletehaha funny how one word can make people, at least those in the know, guess where you are from
ReplyDeleteI wish I had taken a Linguistics course in college...
DeleteI have taken the test, and I didn't get where I grew up as a result. I did get places in the south but not places really nearby.
ReplyDeleteThis really fascinates me and I want to know more about their methods and how they pinpointed some people and not others. I need to study up, obviously!
DeleteYes, I took this test a week ago and was impressed by its philological accuracy. However, I get the feeling from the mostly dry-brown-looking map that everyplace outside the Great Lakes states is in urgent need of irrigation
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it, right? All that scary red-brown! :)
DeleteI need to take this test!
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I definitely think you should, LOL!
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DeleteLol. Looks like a lot of fun. It is amazing what a simple question can really say about a person.
ReplyDeleteIt really is! :)
DeleteLOL!! I've lived so many places, I wonder what I'd be profiled as. Maybe an intergalactic alien. ;) Well, that or a cheese eater.
ReplyDeleteProbably California! Isn't that where all the non-accents are? LOL
DeleteWhen you've lived in three different countries, you use different phrases for each. While answering the questions, it was hard for me to decide which answer was correct based on where I've lived.
ReplyDeleteSoda - America
Pop - Canada
Soft drink - Jamaica
LOL, too funny... my answer, of course, was coke! Here in Kentucky, soft drinks are called coke. Calling it soda or pop is a dead giveaway that you're from somewhere else. Calling it a soft drink, actually, is somewhat less used but still common. :)
DeleteCoke! Coke is coke. LOL
DeleteLOL, well yeah, Coke is also coke...it does get confusing.
Delete"What do you want to drink?"
"Coke, please."
"What kind?"
"Um, Coke."
"Oh...okay."
LOL LOL
Just took it. It put me in Northern California: San Francisco, Oakland and Stockton. It makes no sense whatsoever but perhaps my father's college years had a greater impact on my life than I realize. I also have big patches of red in New York and Maryland. Those two still account for a decent portion of my life. I'm pale yellow in northern Vermont - still a flatlander after 12+ years.
ReplyDeleteThat was fun!
I thought so, too...I'd really like my mom to take it and see what she comes up as, having grown up in the mountains. I was a little surprised at being so solidly Louisville, considering I wasn't really here until I was 13, but it did make sense when I thought about it. When we moved to Germany, I had my mother's accent - Appalachian, and I was so made fun of, I made a concerted effort to lose it. When we moved to Louisville, I was constantly told I sounded so 'European', so again, I adapted. I guess a lot! :)
DeleteI'm guessing I wouldn't fit in anywhere since I'm not American :P But it might be intriguing to see what they say anyway ;)
ReplyDeleteOkay, I took it and I speak most similarly to Pembroke Pines, Miami / Hialeah, and .
ReplyDeleteCool! So you'd fit right in in Southern Florida, LOL! :)
DeleteHeyy, it cut off my other result - it was Honolulu.
DeleteHonolulu, and Florida LOL. Those two are so close together...
DeleteBut Honolulu is the very closest the quiz could get to Australia, so wait...that's kind of way accurate!
What? They don't have one for, "what up, dude?" Hey, you won an Amazon card! Email me where you'd like the funds to be sent. Congratulations! :)
ReplyDeleteOMG! I can't believe I won something! Thank you so much! :) :)
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I do use "what up, dude?"!
I love the fact that these colours and flavours of language are still in use. In the UK everything is becoming rather bland and uniform with a strange London/Black sort of dialect. This has been aided by popular soaps on the Television. Regional dialects were looked down upon (and discouraged on the BBC) and so dialects and regional accents are really being lost. I love it when I meet someone who still has their's.
ReplyDeleteOur TV has the same sort of thing, where everyone kind of sounds the same, but I feel like it makes people even more determined to keep their accent. Some people don't have one, of course, except that they just sound American, but those that do, it's obvious where they're from! Whether it's me, from Kentucky, or Wisconsin, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana...but then we are way more spread out than the UK is.
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