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New York Times Dialect Quiz
Benjamin Grimm Dec 23 2013 09:12 AM |
Take the quiz
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Ceetar Dec 23 2013 09:19 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
New York/Yonkers/Philly bright red. Grand Rapids/Detroit/Milwaukee the least.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 23 2013 09:22 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
New York/Yonkers/Newark-Patterson.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 23 2013 09:22 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
Pretty much same as Grimmy here.
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Ceetar Dec 23 2013 09:26 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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That's what my Grandmother (Central NJ) calls dinner.
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G-Fafif Dec 23 2013 09:32 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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That was me twice, though once I got Jersey City instead of Newark-Paterson (took it multiple times since I learned the questions varied). My Kansas-born wife got results that placed her from Michigan and Indiana until she stopped calling soda "pop" and was brought closer to home. I am so not from Spokane or Boise.
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A Boy Named Seo Dec 23 2013 10:01 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
It pegged me as Long Beach, CA and Albuquerque, NM which was so weird I almost thought it was fake.
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TransMonk Dec 23 2013 10:09 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
Most similar: Denver
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 23 2013 10:15 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
I've gotta say, it's kind of shocking to me that "sneakers" is a regionalism.
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seawolf17 Dec 23 2013 10:16 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
Missed me by a few miles -- put me in NYC, with a red band sticking up into the middle of New York State. So I guess it more or less got me. Probably confused by my regular use of "y'all."
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batmagadanleadoff Dec 23 2013 10:27 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
I got this. Can't even get the usual 10 free articles/month anymore without being hassled.
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themetfairy Dec 23 2013 10:28 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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Same here.
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Chad Ochoseis Dec 23 2013 12:32 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
Newark/Paterson - Yonkers - Jersey City
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sharpie Dec 23 2013 12:54 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
New York/Yonkers/Jersey City
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metirish Dec 23 2013 12:55 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
Most similar - New York ,Yonkers and Boston
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d'Kong76 Dec 23 2013 12:57 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
My Firefox crashed when I got my map. The pinpoints were
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Ceetar Dec 23 2013 01:26 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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I think it's because Philly copies NY in so much. so i t's not that you speak like them, it's that they speak like you.
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batmagadanleadoff Dec 23 2013 01:49 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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I must be on the New York Times' chump list. I took the quiz. And got this:
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Zvon Dec 23 2013 01:55 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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I got that too, then clicked the "sorry an error occurred" link and it showed me the map. Site says its overbusy atm. Newark, Patterson, Phili., New York. Kool quiz.
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cooby Dec 23 2013 02:32 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
I talk mostly like people from Boston, Arlington, and Lexington.
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TransMonk Dec 23 2013 05:44 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
I can't understand a word you just said.
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Rockin' Doc Dec 23 2013 05:49 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
I don't guess that any of y'all will be surprised to hear that I have been verified as the southern hick of the forum. I speak most like Winston-Salem, NC/Richmond, VA, and Montgomery, AL.
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MFS62 Dec 23 2013 09:51 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
Mischief night got me to Paterson/ Newark.
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metsmarathon Dec 24 2013 08:05 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
how would you address a group of two or more people?
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Benjamin Grimm Dec 24 2013 08:07 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
For me, the plural of "you" is always "you".
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metsmarathon Dec 24 2013 08:14 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
i went with "you guys", because i think that's my default setting, except in more formal arenas, where, of course, you is the plural of you.
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HahnSolo Dec 24 2013 08:15 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
NY/Yonkers/Jersey City.
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Ceetar Dec 24 2013 09:14 AM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
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i interchange that one a lot too. you/you is just too confusing. you guys is probably my go-to, but I've probably said a couple of them in seriousness*. I'm tempted to sprinkle in a couple of the other odd ones just to throw off people about where I'm from. Just like i'm sometimes tempted to speak with a stupid accent to try to train myself off the Lawn Guyland one. Although 5 years in Jersey now might be creeping in, and I'm not sure that's better or worse. *I'm never serious.
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metsmarathon Dec 25 2013 03:18 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
I think that all depends on whether or not you're picking up the hudson county accent...
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batmagadanleadoff Dec 25 2013 03:29 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
If I take the quiz 10 times, will I have used up my monthly allotment of 10 free NYT articles, or will that count as just one article read? What if I take the quiz 10 times, but no more than once a day for 10 different days?
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 25 2013 06:02 PM Re: New York Times Dialect Quiz |
That's a great point, because that's exactly the sort of thing we're discussing in this thread, and it's precisely the sort of matter with which we're equipped to help!
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