The second quiz just gave me "Northern", which to me seems quite vague to say the very least. I would have to say that my dialect seems to really be transitional between the dialect groups that are denoted as "Northern" and "North Central" rather than being merely "Northern", with significant features from both being present, with both a strong NCVS characteristic of the "Northern" dialect group and significant Germanic substratum features characteristic of the "North Central" dialect group.
I got Western as did apparently a lot of people from the Miami area. A lot also got "neutral". One got "Southern" to which I call foul. No one born and raised in Miami has a Southern accent - you are either a transplant or WEIRD. (And hopefully you haven't lost your sense of humor ;)
This is just a guess, but I think that the quizzes work for about 3/4 of the people who take them. So far the map looks more or less like I expected it to when I started it, even though there are some dots that are clearly wrong (Southern in Miami, Canadian in Vegas, to name a couple).
Your survey is pretty nice, compliments :) I was wondering if I was going to skew it by marking down Western on Miami since I actually have lived in the West for about four years now, but I checked and see I'm not the only person from Miami to get Western.
I'm curious, what do you all think of the videos I linked to on my website? Look at the "how the accents sound different" page and there are links to videos that I think demonstrate the different types of accents.
I took both quizzes. The results were that I was from Ontario, Canada and the second test I took said I was from the Western States. What is funny is that I live in the Panhandle of Florida which is traditionally a southern accent. Though I live in a military community so within the bubble of a military community accents tend to be much more neutral especially in my area which is both military and a tourist trap. Though I do have a lot of relatives that live in Canada so maybe that influenced my accent. The second test was funny with the result for the West because I have never in my life have lived in the west.
Our site admins have tended to be French or South African (this is what, the fourth incarnation of Langcafe already?), and we have plenty of international posters who come and go, but I think our Americans, while not the majority, tend to be pretty loyal and to post more often than some of the others. So you may see our names more often, but it doesn't mean we're the dominant nationality. Just means Andre, greg, Benjamin, Liz, Pete, fab, etc. are slackin'! (hint, hint) Poor loic and Walker are valiantly shouldering the burden, though.... _________________ An apple a day....
I grew up and live in the Fargo area, no surprise here:
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North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian.
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