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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: zappaisgod]
#19322898 - 12/24/13 07:50 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: It said I was from Yonkers. I've never been to Yonkers. Nobody I know has been there, or at least admit they've been there. This whole thing is stupid, anyways - I don't have an accent.
Yonkers/NYC was mine, which is spot on. Of course you have an accent. Everybody has an accent.
I just listened to myself talk. No accent.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: thelanzii]
#19322908 - 12/24/13 07:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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What do you call cocaine? A.nose candy B.peruvian marching powder C.yayo yak D.White powder
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: leon trout]
#19322913 - 12/24/13 07:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow....it got 20 mins from me
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: Konyap]
#19322920 - 12/24/13 07:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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nose candy lols
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: thelanzii]
#19322924 - 12/24/13 07:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's nice to know that when the Feds use this data to hunt me down, they'll get Zappa instead.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19322935 - 12/24/13 07:55 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: Why would a Canadian stop once they got across the border? You keep going until you can't go any further, then, if you're from Quebec, you put on an ill fitting speedo and freak out the children.
It's a way of remaining close to relatives I guess. I have an aunt who has lived in a number of US cities but bought a house in Buffalo because it's close to the rest of the family in Southern Ontario.
Apparently my answer that was closest to Buffalo Rochester and Seattle was "potato bug."
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: psi]
#19322942 - 12/24/13 07:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mine was dead on for where I'm from, which is really surprising because I don't feel like people from St. Louis have accents at all (except my grandmother who pronounces Missouri "mizz-er-uh).
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19322961 - 12/24/13 07:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It figured out I was from the Detroit area by my response of Devils Night. I recently found out Devils Night is a Michigan thing. I haven't lived there for over 10 years so I think that threw off the conclusion a little
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: psi]
#19322968 - 12/24/13 08:02 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: Why would a Canadian stop once they got across the border? You keep going until you can't go any further, then, if you're from Quebec, you put on an ill fitting speedo and freak out the children.
It's a way of remaining close to relatives I guess. I have an aunt who has lived in a number of US cities but bought a house in Buffalo because it's close to the rest of the family in Southern Ontario.
Apparently my answer that was closest to Buffalo Rochester and Seattle was "potato bug."
potato bug here. rolley polley also acceptable
It is beyond me why a Canadian would end up living in Buffalo. That's like combining the worst qualities of Canada (shit weather) and the worst qualities of the US (random death by gunshot, shit healthcare).
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19322989 - 12/24/13 08:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I thought some of these were weird.
What do I call it when people are selling their shit? Well, I call it a garage sale if they're selling it out of a garage and a yard sale if they're selling it on their yard.
What do I call the road where you drive fast? Well, it depends. If I'm driving on a thru-way I call it a thru-way. Why would I call 90 in New York a freeway or a highway when it's neither free nor high
There were a few that I use interchangeably. At some point I started using y'all sometimes instead of you guys. I also started splitting between pop and soda.
When I read stuff about this study a while back it absolutely blew my mind that sunshower was a regional thing. Also that there were names other than potato bug.
In general though it was fairly accurate. North East stuff, but not New England. Had me in Patterson, NJ and somewhere else in that area ( did this a few days ago, don't remember exactly). The weird one was DC, and one of the questions they cited as the reason for that was one of the ones I took issue with anyway. I think maybe Rochester was the other one.Quote:
koods said: It said I was from Yonkers. I've never been to Yonkers. Nobody I know has been there, or at least admit they've been there. This whole thing is stupid, anyways - I don't have an accent.
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psi said: Says Rochester, Buffalo or Seattle for me. About as close as it could be within the US (at least Rochester or Buffalo.)
So, you're one of those weirdos that calls a soda "pop"
In my experience calling it pop in Rochester is pretty uncommon. Buffalo may as well be the midwest though.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: jewunit]
#19323022 - 12/24/13 08:12 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I dated a guy who grew up in Rochester and him calling it pop was one of the reason it didn't work out.
Whenever I would drive from the DC area to upstate NY or Toronto, I would try to imagine where exactly society went bad and the people started calling it pop instead of soda. As best as I could estimate, it was somewhere just north of Williamsport, PA.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19323053 - 12/24/13 08:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: It is beyond me why a Canadian would end up living in Buffalo. That's like combining the worst qualities of Canada (shit weather) and the worst qualities of the US (random death by gunshot, shit healthcare).
In my aunt's case I think it's that the earning potential in corporate management type jobs was greater. She got a pretty good price on the house compared to what you would find in Southern Ontario as well I believe. She's also lived in Boston, Atlanta, and Newark in the past. Generally speaking most of the Canadians I've met who moved to the US were people who had some kind of fairly high paying job lined up, so healthcare wasn't really a worry for them.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19323059 - 12/24/13 08:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's definitely not a north/south thing. It's not very common in Rochester. Non-existent in Syracuse.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: jewunit]
#19323094 - 12/24/13 08:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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jewunit said: It's definitely not a north/south thing. It's not very common in Rochester. Non-existent in Syracuse.
Maybe it has changed. This was twenty years ago and it was something I actually took note of because it sounded so foreign to me, not just the word but the way people in western NY pronounce it - pap. His family was huge and they all said it, all his friends said it. I lived in Rochester for a summer. It was pretty common.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: jewunit]
#19323105 - 12/24/13 08:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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spot on
I've always lived here though and there appears to be a term that we use here that isnt used anywhere else (feeder road)
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19323107 - 12/24/13 08:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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This quiz got the state i'm from, but I'm really suspicious about this quiz. I bet this quiz uses your IP address to determine what area you are from, and then picks an area close to it because some of these questions are way too general to exactly pinpoint where someone is from in the US.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: jewunit]
#19323115 - 12/24/13 08:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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My most likely was Pittsburgh which as dead on but it also picked 2 cities in Oklahoma that was kinda strange like 1000 miles away.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: xtokex]
#19323119 - 12/24/13 08:36 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://www.popvssoda.com/
Rochester is a divided city. west is pop, east is soda.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: xtokex]
#19323144 - 12/24/13 08:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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xtokex said: This quiz got the state i'm from, but I'm really suspicious about this quiz. I bet this quiz uses your IP address to determine what area you are from, and then picks an area close to it because some of these questions are way too general to exactly pinpoint where someone is from in the US.
each question is general, but the generalities for each one have a different distribution and over 25 questions it can narrow down where your particular generalizations overlap.
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Re: where are you from dialectically? [Re: koods]
#19323154 - 12/24/13 08:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said: I dated a guy who grew up in Rochester and him calling it pop was one of the reason it didn't work out.
Oh god, I have my entire group of friends switching over to calling it soda.I won't put up with that pop nonsense
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