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[tdjohnsn]

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I have never been (or at least only briefly) to most of the regions listed. Now, I suppose expecting actual linguistic analysis of regional phoneme and word usage across the US from a livejournal meme is a bit much, but completely ignoring both the distinct Californian dialects and the usages common to most of the rural west (including the Northwest) seems, well, like a livejournal meme. I think I am just annoyed because this would actually be really interesting if the questions were designed by someone other than a 19 year old from New Jersey.

Comments

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. It would be really interesting to know how your speech traits track your linguistic heritage, but I just ended up feeling kind of... dissatisfied.

What I found really interesting is that my answer for a bunch of the questions was "it depends". I say "y'all" if I want to be clear that I'm indicating the second person plural. Frosting is the stuff on top of a cake, unless it's a simple powdered-sugar/lemon juice mixture or something like that, in which case it's icing. I use "catty corner" for diagonal, but only in reference to buildings. Et cetera...

I think that the regions have less to do with where you're from than where your family's from.