i took the american dialect test and i hate this i hate because it doest just group me into new jersey but SPECIFICALLY northeast new jersey. which is exactly where im from. like its concentrated only in that exact area
ive lived in florida for almost 5 years now and i still talk like im from new jersey fufckfuc k
how can it be that obvious like nobody else calls typical athletic shoes anything other than sneakers but apparently the site said thats what gave me away
It pin pointed where my parents are from and then two areas with heavy foreign populations. So basically accurate.
It got me exactly haha Miami/Hialeah! but also it gave me some random town in Massachusets
Weird. I got Corona, Ca which is oddly specific if completely inaccurate. I’m from LA. Corona is not LA.
I literally got Chicago/Rockford
I was born and raised in St. Louis, MO and lived about 10 years in Florida and the last few in California. But I got none of the above. According to this I sound like I could be from Milwaukee, WI, Buffalo or Rochester NY.
Now both my parents are from New Jersey but that’s the only reason I can think of for me to sound more like a New Yorker then a Midwesterner.
Milwaukee, GR, and Detroit. Which is about as close as I expected them to get, since as we all know, Michigan ceases to exist north of Lansing.
(Weirdly, I took this a couple of days ago and got mostly West Coast cities, but I also didn’t see all the questions, so there must’ve been a glitch somewhere. Pretty sure I pegged as Michigan purely due to the Devil’s Night question.)
I got Detroit, GR and Buffalo. The Buffalo one actually makes perfect sense as many of the folks who originally crossed the Erie Canal and ended up settling in Michigan were from Buffalo and Northern/Western New York. The dialect of Michigan and that portion of New York is incredibly similar.
Detroit, Vegas, and Spring Valley… which is spot on
I it really put me in Pittsburgh and I don’t even use most of the terminology that it’s known for.
it put me in alabama and I’m from tx
My speech team coach would be sooooo proud! The entire country, save the extreme northeast, was colored as extremely similar. Nonregional dialect for the win!
Northeast New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois. Shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
It can’t decide if I’m from New York of Philadelphia. Which makes sense since I’m actually smack dab between them.
It put me in the Carolinas, which is pitch perfect as my parents hail from those states (mother-North; father-South).
Arlington/Fort Worth for 1000% accuracy.
Philadelphia.
12 miles from my home town. ON THE MONEY.
It was a thousand miles off for me in any conceivable direction.
But I came from Michigan, moved to Oregon, and have spent the majority of my life picking up random dialogue smidgens from people.
So my maps were all over the place. I had answers solely dedicated to a single state and it was hilarious to see all red Cali, then New York, then Florida, and then Washington.
Now, I took the quiz twice and had different answers both times because they had 7 different questions the second time I took it.
TEST 1:
3 cities in close proximity to Richmond Virginia.
Nope!
TEST 2:
New York City and two small towns close to it. One in NJ and the other in PA. I was born and raised in Scranton PA, which is about 100 miles from NYC, so it was much closer.
Still, I use certain words because they sound better than the ones I had learned. I pronounce certain words a certain way because they sound more fancy than what I was taught. I know the dialect of my region, I just don’t like the sound of it which is why I adopted terms from other regions.
I got Worcester, MA which is about 400 miles north from my actual location. I have also never been there
I got Jacksonville, Springfield, and Wichita. I’m about a 3 and a half hour drive South of Phoenix, Arizona. Wow.
It put me in Fresno CA, Boise ID, and Salt Lake City UT.
I’ve lived my entire life in the Boulder area of Colorado. None of my extended family have lived in any of those cities, and I’ve never been to any of them. Okay then.
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