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Can this place guess where you live based on your speech?
#19381422 - 01/07/14 09:09 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?ref=us&_r=1&
I've lived in the ND/MN region my whole life but it put my in Seattle, Tacoma, and Reno. This aside, some people I know had it guess theirs right down to the exact city.
I also tried making one as absurd as possible and it put me in St. Louis.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381429 - 01/07/14 09:12 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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But yes, it guessed very closely.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381444 - 01/07/14 09:16 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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it has me mapped out to about 8 states. it's great being a southerner that speak english
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381445 - 01/07/14 09:17 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Yonkers.
I'm not american
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381448 - 01/07/14 09:18 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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lol. it got that I'm on the west coast and said Boise, Spokane, or San Bernadino, but I live in a rural town in Oregon.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Synthe]
#19381464 - 01/07/14 09:21 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Because I call gym class wear Sneakers, I live in boston!
Close enough I suppose!
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: TheMovement]
#19381480 - 01/07/14 09:26 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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TheMovement said: Because I call gym class wear Sneakers, I live in boston!
Close enough I suppose!
I think I put running shoes for that one and I got placed on the west coast.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Synthe]
#19381489 - 01/07/14 09:28 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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guessed my area exactly lol
boston
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381490 - 01/07/14 09:29 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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apparently nowhere refers to them as gym shoes.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: LittleDaddy]
#19381500 - 01/07/14 09:31 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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LittleDaddy said: apparently nowhere refers to them as gym shoes.
I know people that refer to them as house shoes
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: LittleDaddy]
#19381501 - 01/07/14 09:31 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Mine was way off....I live in GA, it said Arizona. Then again people here tell me I talk differently.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: chicksgrowtoo]
#19381523 - 01/07/14 09:35 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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chicksgrowtoo said: Mine was way off....I live in GA, it said Arizona. Then again people here tell me I talk differently. 
I get the same thing, people around where I live think I talk like a northerner
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#19381531 - 01/07/14 09:39 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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I hate how everyone here calls any beverage "coke"....doesn't matter what it is, here it is a coke lol
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: chicksgrowtoo]
#19381542 - 01/07/14 09:41 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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hahaha... every time someone asks me to get them a coke, I ask what kind and name off shit like pepsi, mountain dew and sprite. they're like no, I wanted a coke... "mother fucker, let me make this clear, everything in georgia is a fucking coke!"
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#19381554 - 01/07/14 09:45 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Hows bout we make a FAAAARRR hahahaha my TAAAARRRR went flat! Fuck I hate living here lol
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#19381569 - 01/07/14 09:49 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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It narrowed me down to 3 cities in 2 states. I'm in one of those states.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: chicksgrowtoo]
#19381571 - 01/07/14 09:50 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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it gave me 3 places all in mass
all 3 were in order of how close they were to me. boston ma, worcester ma, and springfield ma
pretty funny how spot on it was
for mass all u had to do was ask "do you use the word "wicked"? lol
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: chicksgrowtoo]
#19381580 - 01/07/14 09:52 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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It gave me one suburb less than 7 miles away. Chicago area is pretty distinctive language wise.
I think gym shoe is more generational, and supper/dinner is more social class than geography.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: chicksgrowtoo]
#19381587 - 01/07/14 09:56 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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When this was posted last week it knew I was from St. Louis.
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chicksgrowtoo said: Hows bout we make a FAAAARRR hahahaha my TAAAARRRR went flat! Fuck I hate living here lol
A person in TN once asked me if I wanted to participate in a "tar far"(tire fire)
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: chicksgrowtoo]
#19381595 - 01/07/14 09:58 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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chicksgrowtoo said: Hows bout we make a FAAAARRR hahahaha my TAAAARRRR went flat! Fuck I hate living here lol
jeetchet?
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#19381602 - 01/07/14 10:01 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Quote:
Prisoner#1 said:
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chicksgrowtoo said: Hows bout we make a FAAAARRR hahahaha my TAAAARRRR went flat! Fuck I hate living here lol
jeetchet?
Sadly, I know what that means, too. Fuck the South.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: TopPmz]
#19381609 - 01/07/14 10:03 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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who seriously says "supper"?
are you cereal?
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Bassfreak]
#19381616 - 01/07/14 10:04 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Yeah fuck the south....and we here the word supper here all the time, especially with the older generations. It makes me cringe when I hear it.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381629 - 01/07/14 10:08 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Mine pinpointed the exact city that I live in.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: nooneman]
#19381668 - 01/07/14 10:19 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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They should include the UK, NZ and Aus.
I got New York appearently.
I still have the slight remains of a west Sydney accent though...
All my individual answers were pretty much all over the place. The averaging distilled NY out of that but I know for a fact that I sound nowhere near a New Yorker.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: GoldenEye]
#19381796 - 01/07/14 10:50 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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has me pinned in hawaii and cali.
i'm in pa and have never been to those places
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Salomon]
#19381803 - 01/07/14 10:51 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Salomon said: has me pinned in hawaii and cali.
i'm in pa and have never been to those places
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Snotfish]
#19381847 - 01/07/14 11:00 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Said I was from Rockford IL. I'm way north of Illinois but I did live in Chicago for most of my childhood, so that probably explains it.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#19388449 - 01/08/14 02:31 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said:
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LittleDaddy said: apparently nowhere refers to them as gym shoes.
I know people that refer to them as house shoes
lol House shoes?
I suppose this map illustrates the beginning of how language must have changed in the past. Maybe different areas form different ways of saying different things and since they're more isolated in the past it eventually develops into something different - accents and words.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: LittleDaddy]
#19388521 - 01/08/14 02:50 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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It guessed west coast or southeastern Wisconsin, the second was right. Apparently only people on the west coast call them "fireflies"?
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: LittleDaddy]
#19388551 - 01/08/14 02:55 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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Pretty impressive, got to within 10 miles of where I live. It said Springfield, Massachusetts and that's 10 miles to the north of where I live. Also said Madison, Wisconsin and Rochester, New York.
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Re: Can this place guess where you live based on your speech? [Re: Noble]
#19388564 - 01/08/14 02:56 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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I just call them "shoes"
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