[c=#BF0080]http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827 [/c] My results:
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This is interesting. According to the quiz, I have a "neutral" accent, which is associated with the lower Midwest, Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and northern West Virginia. I have never lived in this area, but the description does say I could just as easily be from somewhere else and that I may have moved around quite a bit as a child, which is true. But I challenge the notion that people from this part of the country don't have a regional accent. Many folks from the region, especially its southernmost reaches, speak with what sounds to me like a slight southern accent.
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@sarabee1995 My husband's cousin sister stays in Cape Cod. Its a sweeter accent I think. Nope, I have only visited the NE on vacation. Always been staying here in Cali. :)
@sarabee1995 I think they can only manage broad accent categories with this quiz. Designing a quiz that could tap into the sometimes subtle differences between the various accents found within a region would be a pretty tall order.
@sarabee1995 This is true of many other places as well. There must be at least five different accents found in the New Orleans metropolitan area, for example.
@Rutterman Actually I know that about New Orleans! I've never been there, but went through OCS with someone who had gone to Tulane and was somewhat of a linguistics expert and we talked once about localized dialects around Boston and around New Orleans! :)
@Rutterman Absolutely. I briefly considered languages and linguistics as a major until I discovered how into dialects I would have to get. Imagine not only learning a foreign language, but learning it well enough to pull off some local dialect or be able to pull off multiple local dialects? And then do that with multiple languages!
@Rutterman Exactly. And to do it conversationally. I can carry *basic* conversations in French or German, but no way could I switch on or off a Bavarian or Québécois dialect!
