MTNMAN52 Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 247 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 244 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 343 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 698 Achievement Points: 5124 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Birthday: 02/27/1952 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) It Guessed me Dead Right.............. YOU CAN'T HEAR YOUR OWN ACCENT,just like you can't see your eyes movein a mirror. But you CAN determine whataccent you have with this short test...http://gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have Edited June 9, 2013 by MTNMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bogleg Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 Yeah, probably got me right. Said "Inland North." Even though I was born in NY and lived there during my childhood, the upper midwest does have a hold over me. Goddamn cheese curds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bama Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4444 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 2763 Achievement Points: 29399 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 11 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: iPhone Share Posted June 9, 2013 Yep.. nailed me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
codpiece Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 5470 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 371 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 2482 Content Per Day: 0.60 Reputation: 3552 Achievement Points: 22894 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 30 Birthday: 09/17/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 Funny, it said I had a midland accent even though I'm from the west. But my family is from Ohio and Nebraska. So I guess there is some truth to this thing. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Damage_inc- Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.37 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 shit works.if only our government could harness this magical knowledge to do some good. Janey and Bogleg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Janey Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 434 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 272 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1289 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 1448 Achievement Points: 12930 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 8 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) I told y'all I ain't got no accent! Take dat, y'all ijits! Oh, and New Orleans born and bred! What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland 100% "Youhave a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have anaccent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southernOhio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then forall we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those bigsouthern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TVand radio. 87%Philadelphia 85%The Inland North 81%The South 64%The Northeast 33%The West 19%Boston 15%North Central Edited June 9, 2013 by Janey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Spartacus Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1387 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2485 Achievement Points: 19552 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 4 Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) I'm from Ct. We have no accent.... We sound like the liers on Fox News & CNN... The Test Says 89% Inland North Edited June 9, 2013 by Spartacus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
JohnnyDos Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.40 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2013 They told me I sound like a Canadian . Eh they were right. Bogleg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastColdBeer Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4673 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5862 Achievement Points: 41096 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 Midlands. Nailed it. Everyone said I had an accent when I came back from 10 years in Iowa, but it wore off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted June 9, 2013 Does anyone take any notice of your regional accent over there? Are positive or negative inferences made just by the way one speaks? In the UK, in the past, our public broadcaster - the BBC - would only employ announcers who spoke in a "Received Pronunciation" (RP) accent. (This is that one hears when HM The Queen speaks, for example.) Recently it was established by a poll that people are suspicious of RP-speakers and associate it with dishonesty whereas the north-eastern regional accent (as heard when SOB opens his mouth ) is the most trustworthy. There are many call centres in Newcastle-upon-Tyne! I'd be interested to hear if there are similar accent-related prejudices in the States. Is someone who speaks with a mid-western accent viewed more positively than a southerner or vice versa just due to the way they speak? blk_plague 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
theoni Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 11157 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 8 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 51 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/01/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 13, 2013 Birthday: 10/06/1988 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Well, I can tell you that it is a rare to hear an anchorman or woman with one of the nasaly midwest accents. In most cases individuals have a slight accent on larger networks, but they attempt to play them off for the sake of everyone listening to their reports. Many of the field reporters let their accents slip once in a while. Personally, I enjoy hearing the small-town accents because they are sometimes absolutely ridiculous and make me feel at home. Like people saying "beggle" instead of bagel. I would say accents really come out on sports radio. I guess it's a way to drawn-in the regional crowd. Most importantly, a network can not say that someone will not be hired due to their accent because that would be grounds for a discrimination lawsuit (as ridiculous as that is). Personally, I do not have an accent, but I am good at imitating them because I grew up overseas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 248 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3484 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 1843 Achievement Points: 22909 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Android Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) If I was a yank What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Eighty percent (it posted a smile face when I post the figure) 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. 74%The Inland North 66%Philadelphia 59%The South 39%The Midland 14%Boston 2%North Central 2%The West Edited June 9, 2013 by Cheese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Lunkster Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1374 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 60 Topic Count: 183 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1354 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 1726 Achievement Points: 10683 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 04/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 12/10/1971 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) Apparently I'm from the NE of the USA... Hmmm.... As I live in SW England I find this pretty hard to believe... Edited June 9, 2013 by Lunkster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
little_old_man Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Does anyone take any notice of your regional accent over there? Are positive or negative inferences made just by the way one speaks? In the UK, in the past, our public broadcaster - the BBC - would only employ announcers who spoke in a "Received Pronunciation" (RP) accent. (This is that one hears when HM The Queen speaks, for example.) Recently it was established by a poll that people are suspicious of RP-speakers and associate it with dishonesty whereas the north-eastern regional accent (as heard when SOB opens his mouth ) is the most trustworthy. There are many call centres in Newcastle-upon-Tyne! I'd be interested to hear if there are similar accent-related prejudices in the States. Is someone who speaks with a mid-western accent viewed more positively than a southerner or vice versa just due to the way they speak? Yes, there are many in our country that associate a southern accent of any kind with lower intelligence which is absolute bullshit. Here in California most of the democrats consider people with southern accents as sub-human and call them racist rednecks primarily because of their hatred for GW Bush. But they forget that two of their heroes (Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter) were from southern states and had heavy accents as well. Just as with anything else in the US, accents can be a political issue for those on the left. Pharticus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 248 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3484 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 1843 Achievement Points: 22909 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Android Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) Apparently I'm from the NE of the USA... Hmmm.... As I live in SW England I find this pretty hard to believe... Probably because we speak the correct version of English here... Cockney Rhyming should be our national language! Anyhow im off to make a Ruby Murray and have a couple of ray mears Edited June 9, 2013 by Cheese DEEJAYKEG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
SexPanther Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1510 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 39 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 613 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 774 Achievement Points: 5333 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/18/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 10, 2021 Birthday: 06/03/1987 Share Posted June 9, 2013 In California we just make fun of all accents so we don't have a standard one.. We are just good at mocking yougunna go warsh my car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
iEvil Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 111 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 425 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 175 Achievement Points: 2934 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 4 Birthday: 07/12/1971 Device: Android Share Posted June 9, 2013 Remember Janey asked "where are you from" as she didnt recognize my accent lol The Inland North (81%)The Northeast (71%) "You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of thedictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get askedannoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you fromChicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop." My non native english accent comes from hearing other people talk I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Olive Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 69 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 227 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2660 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 4123 Achievement Points: 22968 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 19 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Birthday: 05/07/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 I'm afraid i don't have any American accent ! Mine is a sexy French accent ..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted June 9, 2013 I'm afraid i don't have any American accent ! Mine is a sexy French accent ..lol You are lucky SOB is going to Turkey or he'd put you on his "list"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
kswift420 Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 879 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 261 Achievement Points: 5414 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 5, 2017 Birthday: 12/29/1974 Share Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) 100% southern ( AND DAMN PROUD OF IT!!) Edited June 9, 2013 by kswift420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBB Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 268 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 18194 Content Per Day: 3.47 Reputation: 20234 Achievement Points: 133343 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 267 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 12 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted June 9, 2013 Nailed me perfectly " Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City" Anybody got a problem wid dat???? deerejon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
JACKO:) Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 4474 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 25 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1065 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 374 Achievement Points: 7622 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 3, 2014 Birthday: 09/30/1975 Share Posted June 9, 2013 What about europian-AMERICAN? That's not funnnnnnn DeeJayKeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissD Posted June 10, 2013 Member ID: 5957 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 169 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 235 Achievement Points: 1965 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 8, 2022 Birthday: 12/23/1977 Share Posted June 10, 2013 My result: The Inland North I have never been in the states my whole life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted June 10, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted June 10, 2013 It Guessed me Dead Right.............. YOU CAN'T HEAR YOUR OWN ACCENT, just like you can't see your eyes move in a mirror. But you CAN determine what accent you have with this short test... http://gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have I am like the one other said.. I sound like the liars on CNN MSNBC and other.... but when I get around my neighbor..... gots a country accent.. or my damn cuz'z.... my twang comes out. I can talk 120mph and it seems to slow me down to about 90mph. So probably a good thing but I can hear it and it drives me nutz when I keep doing it after a conversation. yalls come back now ya hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syckle Posted June 10, 2013 Member ID: 2694 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 424 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 322 Achievement Points: 5513 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/26/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 04:23 PM Birthday: 08/11/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted June 10, 2013 got me wrong it said inland north and im from cape cod mass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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