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07/19/2014 01:13:02 PM · #1 |
How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk is a fun survey
from Harvard, via The New York Times.
Pretty darned accurate, for me anyhow, with strong references to Connecticut, upstate New York and touches of the West Coast.
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07/19/2014 01:39:46 PM · #2 |
With watching TV becoming more common than going out and being social, I wonder how the younger generations fair on these tests. One might theorize that kids would be picking up the the vocabulary of what they watch. I know writers come from all over, but if the film industry is in the West, wouldn't people move that way and be influenced by West coast lingo? Then that lingo gets put on the ol' TV, and BAM, you got kids down South calling soda, pop or whatever.
My results put me on the West coast, but down in California (and Reno...), rather than up in Washington where I belong. Also, I'd like to mention, to all those down in Louisiana, "Ya'll are weird...", just sayin'. |
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07/19/2014 01:47:16 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
... but if the film industry is in the West ... |
Much of the TV industry is still in New York, but what with production companies extorting tax breaks from state legislatures, the film and TV industries are becoming more dispersed all the time, with Vancouver, B.C. perhaps leading the charge to steal productions away from Hollywood ... |
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07/19/2014 01:55:05 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by aliqui:
... but if the film industry is in the West ... |
Much of the TV industry is still in New York, but what with production companies extorting tax breaks from state legislatures, the film and TV industries are becoming more dispersed all the time, with Vancouver, B.C. perhaps leading the charge to steal productions away from Hollywood ... |
Yeah, my specifics suck in my example, but you get what I'm saying? |
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07/19/2014 02:22:13 PM · #5 |
Accurate for me also. From Portland.
It pegged me most similar to dialect of Spokane, Portland/Vancouver, or Salt Lake City.
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07/19/2014 02:22:37 PM · #6 |
very accurate result for me... grew up in nj near nyc and it knew that.
my mischief night sneakers gave me away.
despite this, very few have ever been able tell where I'm from by listening to me speak.
Message edited by author 2014-07-19 14:24:32. |
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07/19/2014 02:34:58 PM · #7 |
| I noticed in the mid 70's when I moved to Michigan from Florida for a little while, that the same TV ads we were seeing in with a southern dialect in Florida were tailored with the regional dialect in Michigan. I don't know if they still do that today. |
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07/19/2014 02:45:15 PM · #8 |
Well I've tried it and it missed by 4500 miles :-). Still good to know what kind of English am I speaking - apparently I'm a neighbor of  skewsme. Those sneakers. |
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07/19/2014 02:58:02 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
very accurate result for me... grew up in nj near nyc and it knew that.
my mischief night sneakers gave me away.
despite this, very few have ever been able tell where I'm from by listening to me speak. |
the same plus hoagie; possibly my answers were deceitful: since being in Canada, longlongtime, I have learned to say running shoes, but I think sneakers; similarly with hoagie, here called sub. |
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07/19/2014 03:12:26 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by tnun:
Originally posted by skewsme:
very accurate result for me... grew up in nj near nyc and it knew that.
my mischief night sneakers gave me away.
despite this, very few have ever been able tell where I'm from by listening to me speak. |
the same plus hoagie; possibly my answers were deceitful: since being in Canada, longlongtime, I have learned to say running shoes, but I think sneakers; similarly with hoagie, here called sub. |
One of my questions was soda vs pop. I grew up saying pop, but as an adult it feels wrong; now I say soda. |
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07/19/2014 04:34:33 PM · #11 |
Alabama?! What the... ? I've only ever driven through Alabama. And fast!
Actually the resulting heat map has the entire South and Midwest lit up for me. I was born in Youngstown, Ohio and moved to South Louisiana at ten. People said I never picked up the accent (God knows, I fought it!), but I did pick up words like "crawfish" which is still how I refer to them. Anyway, I got out of there at twenty, bounced around for a while, and ended up in Pittsburgh. (I don't say "yinz," but I do say "nebby.")
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07/19/2014 05:27:43 PM · #12 |
| New York about 6k miles from London but at least it got the right side |
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07/19/2014 06:46:02 PM · #13 |
strangely my most similar match is in milwauke/madison wisconson, then seattle. the entire left half of the us is lit up though.
Message edited by author 2014-07-19 18:46:16. |
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07/19/2014 07:25:14 PM · #14 |
Lexington, wow! That's like 20 miles away from me. I need to get out more... lol!
I thought everyone called it a lightning bug :D
Message edited by author 2014-07-19 19:26:54. |
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07/19/2014 07:35:53 PM · #15 |
| Wow. One of the three cities was my birth city (Jackson, MS) |
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07/19/2014 07:59:14 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Omega_Donkey:
Lexington, wow! That's like 20 miles away from me. I need to get out more... lol!
I thought everyone called it a lightning bug :D |
Meh...firefly, lightning bug...all the same, I've used both terms. Kinda like 'lightning bug' a little more, because they do flash off and on sporadically :-0 |
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07/19/2014 08:15:16 PM · #17 |
| I got all towns close to where I grew up just outside of Chicago...I've done well not assimilating a Southern accent considering I've lived in the South nearly half my life now. |
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07/19/2014 08:48:05 PM · #18 |
Baltimore
Bingo!
Message edited by author 2014-07-20 07:57:47. |
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07/19/2014 09:21:45 PM · #19 |
Yonkers, 10 miles from where I grew up and five from where I was born. Considering I've been on the lamb run go for more than a couple decades and have been told I'm completely accentless, it shows a lot still remains. |
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07/19/2014 09:26:56 PM · #20 |
Got Montgomery, AL. I grew up all over the south east, but I was born in Selma, AL and have family from that area...
Pretty spot on I'd say... |
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07/19/2014 09:28:43 PM · #21 |
Am I the only one that lit up half the country?
Message edited by author 2014-07-20 00:17:02. |
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07/19/2014 10:37:29 PM · #22 |
My map is all over the place. My 3 cities are all coastal California. I grew up in New Mexico but I've moved around a lot. I'm delighted that not much of the deep south is in my vocabulary.
Message edited by author 2014-07-19 22:38:58. |
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07/20/2014 12:13:12 AM · #23 |
Yea it pegged me....It said Shreveport, la , Baton rouge, la or Jackson MS.........Im in the center of those
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07/20/2014 05:35:07 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by bvy:
Am I the only one that lit up half the country?
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Mine is more like three quarters lit up but it did call out Oakland as a likely origination point, which is neatly between birthplace, where I was educated, and where I now live. |
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07/20/2014 05:53:24 AM · #25 |
Pretty accurate. Makes sense since I live in the Pacific Northwest, but grew up in the Bay Area. |
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