October, 2014
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Dialect Quizzes
So i took about 3 of the dialect quizzes. I dont think they were accurate. I was born and raised here in San Diego though it seems im say things like people on the the east coast do. well, like Boston and such. im always asked where im from because people i say i have a accent. strange. All in all i found the quizzes very interesting and fun.
Fly, you gorgeous moths, fly!
Hello, Linguists!
The workflow and the HW-4 description on the website is now updated. As a reminder, the workflow goes in a specific order for a reason… that’s the order you should be doing it in. Going out of the order suggested will just make things harder for you as you’ll start running into advanced concepts before you’ve been introduced to the basics. So don’t do that. Go in order.
You’re all beautiful butterflies, waiting to unfurl your wings. I believe in you. Have some fun with this stuff!!
-dsb
My language is actually changing? (Extra Credit)
So I took the Harvard Dialect Survey without any expectations thinking that It wouldn’t be able to pinpoint my location (since I speak with a “Filipino accent”) but lo and behold, it was actually correct (well, mostly)
(I took the quiz twice, this was my second result. My first result said that my dialect is most similar to that of Los Angeles. I was actually really surprised that both results were consistent and accurate).
Speaking of my accent, I learned English in the Philippines from pre-school up to 4th grade (approximately 12 years) so when I moved to California I simply spoke the way English was taught to me. (example: I put a strong emphasis on the letter ‘v’ making it sound like a ‘b’. I used to say “I lab you” instead of “I love you”) Anyways, I took the survey with that mindset and chose words the way I would normally pronounce them. The survey results, however, was able to tell that I live somewhere near Southern California. It might be because I am just oblivious to how I am speaking but maybe my language is actually changing the longer I live in California.
Among everything else, what this survey told me is that region has a really large impact on how you speak a language!
Extra Credit!!!!
During my test, I had to really think about how I say certain things. My results were saying that I am from Oxnard and Fresno. To be quite honest, I was a little scared because I thought I spoke like a I came from LA. But that is okay. (: The thing that distinguish me into Oxnard was the word firefly. What a surprise!(: I thought it would be tennis shoes, I was wrong. These are my quiz results.
Extra Credit Blog (SURVEY)
As I took this survey I was surprised by how many different ways there is to pronounce different words and references to different things. I was even more surprised when I saw the results and how accurately i spoke for the region that I live in. I literally sat and saw the map amazed because it had classified me so easily with just 25 questions. I didn’t think that I followed the language much of my region but i guess I do! It was a very interesting little survey of major realization lol. Pretty cool I have to admit.
Dialect Quiz EC
One response that intrigued me was that the only area in which it is common to call a mountain lion a cougar is Washington State, which is where I’m from. I thought that this would be more common. Another question that I found interesting asked what I called a drive-through liquor store… I didn’t even know they existed. I also call cray fish ‘craw fish’ because my dad is from New Orleans and I used to visit my cousins there a ton, but most of my terminology is consistent with the west coast. – Seth Rubero
Extra Credit Dialect Quiz
My results were spot on! The first location suggested was the city that I was born and raised in, San Jose, CA! I am not really surprised to be honest, but some of the questions in the quiz were dead gives a ways to places I am not from. I have never heard anyone in California call a soda “pop” except for when I lived with a guy from Mississippi. They other two cities mentioned were Fremont and Fresno. I can understand Fremont because I have family there and it seems fairly similar to San Jose. But Fresno kind of came out of no where. When I think of Fresno, I think of hot dead wastelands because Fresno blows chunks of lameness. It is like where they grow cows or something, totally lame. But overall, I am pleased with my results and incredibly surprised by how accurate they are. This was pretty cool.
#dialect #sanjose #california #baylingo #lignuistics #sj
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