Comments | no_detective: Holy crap, this is AMAZING.

no_detective

Holy crap, this is AMAZING.

Feb 27, 2011 14:43

What American accent do you have?
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slodwick February 27 2011, 19:45:38 UTC

I get so frustrated by that test because it always tells me I don't have a region-specific accent, I'm just "American". I want something interesting!! :\

no_detective February 27 2011, 19:51:05 UTC

Wait, just American? Is that even possible?

...then again, you would make an excellent mysterious character in a pulp fiction type of book. "Nobody could tell where she came from... and only she knew where she was going!" DUN DUN DUUUUUN.

slodwick February 27 2011, 19:55:30 UTC

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity to begin with.

I'm not sure how I feel about the assignment of my feelings on the matter, but... there you go.

... *stealths*

no_detective February 27 2011, 20:16:43 UTC

Don't you love it when quiz results get all "WE KNOW YOU LIKE NOBODY IN THE WORLD (INCLUDING YOURSELF) KNOWS YOU"? Hehehehe.

You are the Switzerland of American accents, apparently.

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mistresscurvy February 27 2011, 19:49:11 UTC

Um. It claims I have a Southern accent and "am probably from someplace south of the Ohio River." Which, NO. It is entirely possible I overthought all the answers, and I tend to do terribly on these sorts of things because accent training when I was an actor made me hyperaware of how I say things, but IN NO WAY do I sound Southern. I don't have a Jersey accent either, but DUDE do I not sound like I'm from the South. *is disgruntled* *takes it again*

no_detective February 27 2011, 19:53:48 UTC

AHAHAHAHAHA OH BOY. I can't decide if I'm more amused by those results or by your RIGHTEOUS OUTRAGE! *hugs*

Undercover Southerner. It... could be a band name.

mistresscurvy February 27 2011, 19:58:52 UTC

Okay, I just took it again and changed like the four answers that I was most on the fence about and now it says that I'm the same as you, which is fine and accurate, since obviously I am from Jersey but don't sound like it particularly. *is vindicated*

no_detective February 27 2011, 20:23:16 UTC

There you go! And in your case, that actually makes sense. What cracks me up about this being my result as well is that 1) I am TERRIBLE with accents and 2) there is obviously a difference between what I KNOW a word should sound like and what I usually pronounce (not being a native English speaker and all that). So for me, the quiz is evaluating English pronunciation as I learned it instead of, you know, what I actually sound like.

...weird.

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nicole_anell February 27 2011, 20:09:24 UTC

This is cool! I got Mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia, south Jersey, Baltimore) which isn't exactly right but the "you are probably one of the following" option was accurate (a New Yorker who rhymes "on" with "dawn" sometimes).

no_detective February 27 2011, 20:31:50 UTC

Oh, neat! I've seen some very different reactions to the results, but most of them seemed quite impressively on target. :)

aurora_84 February 27 2011, 22:18:35 UTC

I have neutral too! Which is kinda in line with my ESL-ness, I guess.

no_detective February 27 2011, 23:26:46 UTC

Very possibly! What amazed me is that I DID live around the Great Lakes when I first moved to the US, and I never thought about the accent until I moved to NY and REALLY noticed the difference.

anitac588 February 28 2011, 05:44:29 UTC

I got "neutral", as in my all American identity is more important to me than local. *G*

Yeah, I wonder how the test for English as a second language would be. Also, I'm not sure I answered correctly, probably I'd have to have a native speaker who would tell me how I really sound.