tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28553339.post4332089071214811940..comments2023-07-17T05:07:53.982-07:00Comments on clashing hats: Okay, what?Hilairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09033740943173352249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28553339.post-72252945613956448992008-04-09T21:22:00.000-07:002008-04-09T21:22:00.000-07:00Pantagruelle - Yeah, I think this is general Ameri...Pantagruelle - Yeah, I think this is general American. I'm not surprised that that's what kind of accent I have - I am mostly surprised that it's associated with the south...and the west? Weird? Dallas and Atlanta? Say what?<BR/><BR/>Anne - Oh, yes, I definitely know the Minnesota/rural central-west Canadian accent and don't have that...As above, I'm more surprised at being told I sound like I'm from the west or the south! And not the northeast. Endlessly fascinating, accents are. I think one day I want to take a linguist out to dinner and pick their brain about this...Southern Ontario/upstate New York is always the strangest example to me. How people who live in Buffalo can have such an incredibly different accent from those who live 1/2 hour away, over the Canadian border (and have the apparently "accentless" English I have...)Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033740943173352249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28553339.post-67053907116199148722008-04-09T18:29:00.000-07:002008-04-09T18:29:00.000-07:00Huh. I got "North Central":"North Central" is what...Huh. I got "North Central":<BR/><BR/>"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.<BR/><BR/>I'm from Alberta. That was interesting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28553339.post-67047421445706814742008-04-09T17:18:00.000-07:002008-04-09T17:18:00.000-07:00I took a similar quiz a while ago and ended up bei...I took a similar quiz a while ago and ended up being a "general American" (http://pantagruelle.blogspot.com/2006/06/egad-general-american.html), which I guess just means not much accent at all. My quiz had slightly different categories than yours though. I don't think it really applies to us anyway. I think it would be more fun to have a quiz that measures if one speaks more like a Brit, Canadian, or American.Pantagruellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16276888537167616031noreply@blogger.com