Language is a funny thing. I loved the linguistics course I took in college. Should have done more with it...but I was still more concentrated on rocks.
So- the problem that I have with this quiz that AKMA pointed to is that I use more than just one of the choices. At some points, they ask "or both" but for most of them, I had to choose, even when "both" would be appropriate for me. But, it's probably pretty close.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 70% General American English |
| 20% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 0% Yankee |
Yeah, I had that problem too.
Posted by: beth at April 18, 2005 05:20 PMWow these quizzes are popping up everywhere. I have seen three in blogs and one in email.
Here is a diffrent version of a dialect quiz.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lgrob/southern_dialect_quiz.htm
Also, PBS did a whole program called "Do you Speak American?" It was good. They played it around New Year's but they may re run it sometime. It talks about the various dialects in the US.
Posted by: heather (the good twin) at April 19, 2005 11:43 PM