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the_gneech| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak. | |
| The Midland | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The South | |
| Boston | |
| The Inland North | |
| The West | |
| North Central | |
| What American accent do you have? | |
Hmm ... probably pretty accurate. I don't think of myself as having an accent, but when I was in high school somebody asked me if I was from England.
You might say I have a "PBS accent."
-TG
PS: If you do this quiz, note that the generated HMTL code is missing a "</td></tr>" at the end of the main text block (e.g., after "people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak" in my case).
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Date: 2006-11-01 06:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, right. :) For those of y'all that have met me, you know how I sound. To be fair to the test creators, my "The South" score was only a little bit lower than the score for Midlands. I think I the difference was the fill/feel question. In an Appalachian accent, they'd be the same... but there's more than just one Southern accent. Generally speaking, there's Southern Coast, Southern Midland (that's me), and Southern Appalachian.
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Date: 2006-11-01 06:51 pm (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2006-11-01 07:31 pm (UTC)You know, I think there just weren't enough questions. They were the right kind of questions, but there wasn't all that much specificity.
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Date: 2006-11-01 07:34 pm (UTC)"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
This makes sense because I grew up in a military area with lots of people from different areas, so I didn't hear one specific, overwhelming accent growing up. I heard lots of them. And I made a conscious effort to not say "Warshington" and "I've got to warsh some clothes" like some of the people around me did.
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Date: 2006-11-01 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 10:37 pm (UTC)Then again, Im English, I speak properly ;)b
you do have an accent...
Date: 2006-11-02 01:35 am (UTC)and it's never annoying either!
MLD
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Date: 2006-11-02 01:56 am (UTC)STOP BLUSHING!
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Date: 2006-11-02 12:20 pm (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2006-11-02 02:19 am (UTC)in my case i also got the no accent yet if you ask MLD i can go a range of southern chaarm and drawl to hick ya'll know how that thair can go on
and i can tell the kiddos to go play in tha yad
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Date: 2006-11-02 06:54 am (UTC)Granted, I did spend 8 years in diction classes, when I was studying opera...
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