Jason Skywalker Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 70% Midland. Even though i'm Portuguese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoiuyWired Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I Got North Central. Reasonable since I spend lots of my time around Seattle... and in the snow burried(not) land they call Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I am NORTH American. I got Inland North (70%) and yes, I call "pop" pop, not soda. But, Midland (60%) and North Central(53%) were pretty close. EDIT: On Achilles' I got Neutral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Boston. 88%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 On Achilles' version of the test: Neutral You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up. Probably comes from spending 6 years in SW MO, 5 years in central OH, and a year in SE TX along with growing up in WI. @ED-- 'pop' is shortened from 'soda pop' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I speakus da REDspeek! Your infantile minders don't comprende the muchly much awesome of all da redspeeks. However my accent is often confused with both lilliputian and homicidal mania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totenkopf Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Your Result: The Midland---80% The Inland North---74% The South---73% Philadelphia---67% The NE---45% North Central---36% The West---29% Boston---13%; Close enough. 2nd test pegged me with northern. close but no cookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SithRevan Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 North Eastern, my grandparents were from England and somehow both my mother and I have accquired a british accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTavish Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Mine turned out to be Midland, as you can see below. "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. heh...cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Maybe they are watching too many Seinfeld reruns. lolz I don't watch any tv show in English...only news and some serious serious documentaries once in a while. Very exceptionally I will watch a movie in English I started to learn English in South America with both British and American teachers...had English in gr. 9 in Quebec (been exempted from English classes all the other years as they were a real joke), went to England for a few summers...and that's about it...after that I learned it mainly in books and at work. I tried Achilles' test and got the following result: What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) My Results: Neutral You're not Northern, Southern, or Western, you're just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up. The only thing that applies to me is the last sentence...it's so true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Inland North represent. I was really close to getting Midland instead though. On the second test I got: My Results: Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Northeast. Yes, I'm not a native speaker on any way, though I was pretty curious about this test, most of the words they compared, for me, sounded different, others close but still different. I suppose I should feel like on home when at NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SykoRevan Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I'm still the only Philly boi in this crowd. I feel so lonely... And it's neither "soda" nor "pop," it's "carbonated beverage." GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucination Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I got Western on both. Bah, the rest of America just doesn't speak English properly. There is a difference between "cot" and "caught," I tell you... And this difference is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Well... I got Midland... I'm not exactly surprised... but I do have a little mid-westness in it. Considering that my entire family is from Nebraska and Missouri and I was born in Arizona. All my relatives use "pop" and "warsh" and "cott'n" and "if it wuz a snake... it woulda bit chya..." All the while... I say, "soda" and "wash" and "cotton" and "Are you blind?!" I used to have a somewhat southern accent but it changed after I moved to New Mexico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 well, with both of my parents from the Pittsburgh area (Johnstown to be more precise), its no surprise that i got rated as a midlander on both tests despite being born and raised in the South. since you hone your language skills at a young age, its completely understandable that i sound like somebody from that area. from what i've noticed, though, i can go in and out of various southern accents depending on who i'm around. now, taking that test by using one of those accents of which i'm quite familiar with, i score solid southern every time. from my perspective, that makes me unique. which is a nice way of saying that i'm one of the weirdest people you've ever met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taos Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 It says the west...damn copy/paste!! Considering where I'm from...this is pretty accurate. heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I think this is bogus! It says that I have a Philadelphia accent. I was born and raised in Georgia and spent 6 years in Oklahoma. I haven't even been further north than Washington, D.C. Everyone I talk to from out of state thinks that I sound like a Texan. That is a far cry from Philly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimmerman Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 95% Midland, 80% West Ironic...since I'm from Cali originally and have lived in Colorado for 13 years. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargoyle King Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Oh can we move on to UK English accents - please? 'Cause i'm 'scouse mate from Liverpool, the best accent to have (but i would say that, biased opinion ) Wow, i knew there were differences within American accents according to region but never knew there were this many, a bit like here in the UK, what a stupid amount of accents there are here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 lolz.. I thinks its called midwest... the only american accent that is cool IMHO, like Iggy Pop, IIRC. I myself have a mixture of Aussie English + and Cypriot Turkish(a less formal Turkish) accent. It become more or less one or the other depending on whom I am talking to ! My Oz accent is nothing near that of Russell Crowe for example.....but if Im out of Oz, its easy to pick, same with the Cyp-Tur mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 I took the second test and got the same result... perhaps I should pack my bags and just go and live in New York? Wow, i knew there were differences within American accents according to region but never knew there were this many, a bit like here in the UK, what a stupid amount of accents there are here. Yeah but at least they can understand one another... someone from Glasgow may have trouble understanding someone from the East End o' Landan (London) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargoyle King Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Yeah but at least they can understand one another... someone from Glasgow may have trouble understanding someone from the East End o' Landan (London) . You got a point there, i have family who are cockneys and i can barely understand them sometimes, all that cockney slang just doesn't compute too often with me, so they are often getting annoyed when i ask - "Hang on, what the hell are you going on about", it's quite funny. As far as American accents go i just love the New York accent (don't quite know what category this would go in), i think it's just grand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Tadaaa, my results : What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard. Weird , cause I'm from Belgium . I thought I would be thrown in with the others into NY , but alas . Philadelphia , isn't that some sort cheese ? Guess I'll have to take a map from the U.S of A to see where it is , I have no clue at all . But anyway , even in my country ( very small) we have tons of accents . And one part talks "French" . And another tiny part talks German . We got it all ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Demonius Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Well on the first test i got Midland and on the other test i got western even though im from the same area as Stinger there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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