I'm a Yankee?!
Your Linguistic Profile: |
45% Yankee |
40% General American English |
15% |
0% Midwestern |
0% Upper Midwestern |
These results are pretty funny when you consider that I have lived much of my life in the South. I guess it didn't rub off.
posted by Lady Tiara @ 6:58 PM
8 Comments:
At 4/15/05, 8:15 PM,
Kathryn Is So Over said…
I was only 25% Dixie, what a joke!! Give me ten minutes on the phone with just one family member (or four or five drinks) and I'm 100% Dixie.
At 4/15/05, 8:31 PM,
Anonymous said…
I'm boring, 75% General American English. But where did that 10% Upper Midwestern come from, and NO YANKEE! I'm not even a hick, I'm nothing.
Etta maybe your parents speak yankee, and it rubbed off. You told me your mom had no idea what a casserole was until [ex-boyfriend]'s parent's served her one, any Dixie would be able to make several varieties. -Lisa
At 4/15/05, 8:42 PM,
Anonymous said…
oh, and thanks again for the generous time-suck. of course i had to do EVERY quiz on this page...Lisa
At 4/15/05, 9:43 PM,
Lady Tiara said…
i guess my parents are yankees. both from NY. my mother has a NY accent, but my father doesn't, which i think is because his parents didn't have them either (they were from ireland and never really lost their accents). i don't think i have a lot of regionalisms in my speech, but maybe i do. i lived in virginia for most of my life, but it was NOVA, which isn't very southern, and everyone is from somewhere else. but i'm a little bit dixie.
my mom had heard of casseroles before, she had just never cooked one (or eaten many, i guess). she has never cooked that 50s-esque, good housekeeping recipe kind of food very much. my ex's mother tried to give her some recipes, which was hilarious.
At 4/15/05, 9:52 PM,
Kathryn Is So Over said…
I am definitely more Dixie than both a y'all! Grew up in the capital of the confederacy, school at "dear old UVA," both parents grew up in NC, dad still in Richmond, Mom worked in Birmingham the last four years, sister in Raleigh....but yet this test tells me I'm only 25% Dixie.
It also told me my inner European is Irish, and we all know I completely divorced myself from the Irish a few years ago.
At 4/18/05, 6:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Actually on this topic, what was Owen Wilson trying to do with that southern accent in Life Aquatic?
First I thought he was trying for the drawl (ie: richmond/colonial south) as opposed to the twang (texas/deep south) which seemed appropriate to his character from Kentucky. Like "rivAH" instead of river, a refined "Gone With the Wind" thing. But then it was all over the place and kept coming and going from scene to scene.
Did this bug you, were you thinking "sheesh, couldn't they hire a real voice or acting coach to make this more convincing?" or am I being to rough on him?
I also thought it sucked that they a) killed his character and b) it never really affected the other characters or story. --Lisa
At 4/18/05, 6:45 PM,
Kathryn Is So Over said…
Owen's accent was definitely a mess. And the first thing I said to JB when we walked out of Life Aquatic was, "they didn't have to kill Owen."
At 4/18/05, 8:49 PM,
Lady Tiara said…
yeah, his accent was all over the place and didn't really do anything for the character. it sucked that he died. i enjoyed the movie, but it wasn't very cohesive as a whole--e.g., owen's character being a huge part of the movie, and then he dies and there really isn't that big an impact.
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