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RyanD
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Squamish
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Dec 23, 2013 - 01:08pm PT
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Buffalo NY??
Guess it wAsnt designed for frostbacks. I've never been east of jellystone park! Lol
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 23, 2013 - 01:13pm PT
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Straight up New England.
Ay yah, can't get theyah from heeyah.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2013 - 01:17pm PT
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RyanD maybe there is a Canadian version. I think you just ad eh at the end of every sentence and answer yes to the do you watch curling question.
My top three were Sac, Methdesto, and Fresno.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Dec 23, 2013 - 01:29pm PT
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Lol!
Thanks Justin I'll check it out, have a good day dude. Mine has started with a laugh.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 23, 2013 - 01:34pm PT
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Apparently I could be from anywhere except Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Never been to any of those places other than passing through, but then I've never been to any of the three most likely places (Minneapolis/St Paul, Boston, and Arlington) either.
Of course, there's the frostback thing. It's been more than a decade since I've lived in Canuckistan, though, so I'm not sure how much influence that has.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2013 - 01:51pm PT
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You too, Ryan.
Ghost- Boston, St. Paul, and Arlington? At least my three were within 200 miles from each other.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:03pm PT
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This thing has nailed it for a few of my friends (including one from Reno), but I figured, correctly, that it would have a hard time with me - raised in the Midwest by southern parents, college in New England, and now living in CA for 20 yrs.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:09pm PT
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Ghost- Boston, St. Paul, and Arlington? At least my three were within 200 miles from each other.
Doesn't make much sense, does it? Especially since the closest I've ever lived to any of those places is almost a thousand miles (from Minneapolis/St Paul).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:11pm PT
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I think I broke the thing! Better hit the throughway.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:12pm PT
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After wasteing my time I got this:
Sorry, an error has occurred. Keep this link to save your answers and view your map later.
Maybe they didn't include Butthurtistan in their map base?
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:19pm PT
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It got mine correct with Fresno (close enough).
There were some weird options on those questions
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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It has me at Buffalo, Ny then Honalulu, then Seattle which is definitely the closest of the bunch.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:50pm PT
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Northern San Joaquin Valley -- Stockton, Modesto, Fresno. Right on target!
John
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:55pm PT
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Said Houston, TX for me. Dead on as I lived there almost 30 years. One difference though is that I NEVER use or have used "ya'll".
edit: other option it gave was Ft. Worth and Corpus Christi.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Dec 23, 2013 - 02:57pm PT
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Mine said Anchorage, Madison, or Milwaukee...which is kind of cool because I'm in Anchorage!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dec 23, 2013 - 03:29pm PT
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Apparently I have non regional diction.
I'm from New Hampsha', but the test had me living in or near either Spokane, SLC, or Modesto.
Moving around as an adult and reading A LOT as a kid probably contributed.
An aside, I've found that my friends from the south who attended college speak with non regional diction as well. Much more so than their non post secondary education counterparts. Coincidence?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 23, 2013 - 03:43pm PT
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It tagged me with Birmingham, Alabama and Winston-Salem. I shoulda said catty-corner instead of kitty-corner, though.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 23, 2013 - 04:24pm PT
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New medium for old technique.
Summer of '76, my dad, my cousin, and I were wandering around the big airport in Dallas at four in the morning, killing some time while changing planes.
A guy carrying a big binder walks up to my dad, and tells him he can pin-point my dad's hometown by the accents, inflections, whatever in his speech. Dude was a college student studying linguistics ( or whatever the study is called )
He had my old man read a paragraph, then he started whipping through his binder, like he was looking for the right page.
When he finished turning pages, he had narrowed my dad's hometown down to the correct zip-code.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Dec 23, 2013 - 04:27pm PT
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it did pretty well with me, Ft Wayne Indiana is 200 miles from where I was born (Cleveland, Oh) and Lousiville and Lexington, kentucky are both about 70 miles from Cincinnati where I grew up. I spent high school years in the DC area (northern Virginia) so I guess that's why they put me south of the Mason Dixon line for 2 out of 3 of their choices, y'all know what I mean?
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