MTNMAN52 Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 247 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 244 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 345 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 698 Achievement Points: 5144 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 02/27/1952 Device: Windows 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 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: 0.49 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows 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. 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: 4445 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29415 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 3, 2024 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: Windows Posted June 9, 2013 Yep.. nailed me too. Awards
codpiece Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 5470 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 373 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2509 Content Per Day: 0.56 Reputation: 3609 Achievement Points: 23134 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 8 Joined: 02/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: 10 hours ago Birthday: 09/17/1968 Device: Windows 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. 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: 1.27 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 Posted June 9, 2013 shit works.if only our government could harness this magical knowledge to do some good. Janey and Bogleg 2 Awards
Janey Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 434 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 272 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1289 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 1448 Achievement Points: 12930 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13 Device: iPhone 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 Awards
Spartacus Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 13 Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows 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 Awards
JohnnyDos Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.32 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted June 9, 2013 They told me I sound like a Canadian . Eh they were right. Bogleg 1
TheLastColdBeer Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android 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. Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 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 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 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.
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 249 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3513 Content Per Day: 0.61 Reputation: 1893 Achievement Points: 23131 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Windows 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 Awards
Lunkster Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1374 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 60 Topic Count: 183 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1358 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 1736 Achievement Points: 10713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 04/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 31 minutes ago Birthday: 12/10/1971 Device: Windows 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 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: 1.21 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 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 Awards
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 249 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3513 Content Per Day: 0.61 Reputation: 1893 Achievement Points: 23131 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Windows 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 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: 0.11 Reputation: 774 Achievement Points: 5333 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/18/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 21 Birthday: 06/03/1987 Device: iPhone 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 Awards
iEvil Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 111 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 426 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 175 Achievement Points: 2939 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 21 Birthday: 07/12/1971 Device: Android 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. Awards
Olive Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 69 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 227 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2664 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 4132 Achievement Points: 23009 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 19 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 05:20 PM Birthday: 05/07/1965 Device: Windows Posted June 9, 2013 I'm afraid i don't have any American accent ! Mine is a sexy French accent ..lol Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 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"! 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: 0.16 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 Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) 100% southern ( AND DAMN PROUD OF IT!!) Edited June 9, 2013 by kswift420
TBB Posted June 9, 2013 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20365 Content Per Day: 3.64 Reputation: 22447 Achievement Points: 147247 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 389 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows 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 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: 0.24 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 Posted June 9, 2013 What about europian-AMERICAN? That's not funnnnnnn DeeJayKeg
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 Posted June 10, 2013 My result: The Inland North I have never been in the states my whole life Awards
hxtr Posted June 10, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 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
Syckle Posted June 10, 2013 Member ID: 2694 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 432 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 326 Achievement Points: 5572 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/26/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 08/11/1965 Device: Windows Posted June 10, 2013 got me wrong it said inland north and im from cape cod mass Awards
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