Cough, hack, wheeze.
Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
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This is about what I had expected. I grew up in New Jersey with a bunch of NYC folk as family, I went to school for three years in Indiana, in an area that was largely populated by displaced Kentuckians, and now I live in Upstate1 NY.
I feel some amount of empathy for binxcat. I am currently suffering from a cold that has taken out my larynx. I cannot, essentially, speak. I hope we both get better. Ugh.
Of course, I dug my own grave here. I started feeling slightly off last week, but I still went and partied with my fraternity this weekend, anyway. Then again, we only have these reunions 2 times per year, and I missed the last one because I was visiting fraudirector, binxcat, and mdsteele47 on my grand Earlham reunion tour 2004. So, I feel bad about feeling bad, but I don't feel that bad about feeling bad, because I'd have felt worse if I took it easy and felt better right now.
Parsing that last sentence is an exercise left for the reader.
1."Upstate" in New York has a number of definitions. For example, fraudirector might claim that Upstate is anywhere north of a line linking Watertown and Plattsburgh. My aunt, from Queens, thinks that Upstate is anywhere north of Yonkers, and on some days, that drops down to anywhere north of the Bronx.