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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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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Dec 23, 2013 - 06:01pm PT
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It told me ,Buffalo,N.Y.,Pittsburgh and Scranton,Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh,like a second home,live 75 miles from Buffalo, south of Rochester.
If you drew a triangle between those cities I am near the middle.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Dec 23, 2013 - 07:01pm PT
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My answers resulted in Salt Lake City. Pretty amazing.
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 23, 2013 - 07:41pm PT
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Could this thing just be reading your IP address and plugging that in?
Or maybe I shouldn't have plugged in my Social Security #...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2013 - 07:54pm PT
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Haha Edge, I gave them my banking info too.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 23, 2013 - 11:13pm PT
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Madison, Modesto or SLC .
Needs work
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skywalker
climber
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:05am PT
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Not bad,
Strong N.E. Pa. Hometown there. Denver, 15 minutes away. Kansas??? Maybe the rest of my travels and books???
In the areas I have lived in I've developed pronunciations that fit the area and could have gone a few different ways but stayed with my historical use. But when in Rome...
S...
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:15am PT
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1 Santa Rosa....5 miles from here wow.
2 Modesto
3 Stockton
What's the difference ?
Must have been that rolly bug question...
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Aya K
Trad climber
Boulder, CO!
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:54am PT
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It nailed me. New York. Said my most distinctive answer was that I call the aft soled shoes you wear in gym class sneakers. Seriously? I get frappes and bubblers and yinz and so on as distinctive... but SNEAKERS? WTF is the rest of the country calling their sneakers?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:01am PT
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The result was spot on! The town in which I was born is basically at the center of the triangle formed by the three predicted cities.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:09am PT
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northeast, not bad... lived half my life in the east, half in the west...
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Mimi
climber
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:16am PT
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Chaz, that's out there.
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skywalker
climber
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:50am PT
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Probly "pop" gave me away.
I think Hoagie gave me away. I remember my friend visiting from North Jersey and was reading the menu and said "What the f#ck is a Hoe-ay-gee?
His final response was "Its called a sub" in a harsh tone.
S...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 24, 2013 - 05:13am PT
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hey there say, this just in (was this who posted this?)
well, i did this three times, to see how much it 'did the same' results, etc...
hee hee...
wellll, a few question were different, too, yet, the results were the same only this way:
midwest, yet, matching calif... heavily...
now: my folks were both from ohio... and, i grew up in san jose...
the odd things here is:
i had NO terms for many things and just called them whatever i wanted...
i had VERY VERY much blue, and never matched any common answers enough for them to go by, so:
the first time they went by:
the JAM in pajamas... matched of all things, :O
omaha, nebraska and madison, wisconsin (i was right the first time)
WHICH we never lived in...
however, they ARE considered mid-west... hence, by folks and the ohio bit???
and then, they went by this = drinking fountain, which is what i call those things and they said: THIS IS A DEFINING ANSWER TO
ADD: grand rapids michigan... (more mid west) ...
oh my, so i got stuff from my folks, YET, being a most creative and artist calif-gal with non-traditions out there:
i did NOT match and was nearly always BLUE-COLOR...
okay, next...
it picked:
madison, wisconson... again...
(and by the way, we MET folks from wisconson, that came down south, and
NONE of us in my family, sound like them! not me, for sure) :O
and then, it picked salt lake city, :O
BUT: THESE PICKED THESE TWO PLACES BASED ON THIS:
THE use of drinking fountain again (hmmm, thought this from grand rapids, mich???) and the different usaged of: 'aw' and 'ough'
okay, last...
it picked:
omaha, again... and madison, wisconsin, due to this:
the use of SEMI and FRONTAGE ROAD...
so there you have it...
I RECKON i did not match enough, so they had to do it by
'terms' ... ?
and the JAM in the first one...
so i am guessing it is my folks MIDWEST of cleveland and columbus ohio,
these same dark reds of the city that they picked, though,
did match parts of ohio and
parts of california...
no east AT ALL from me and no south...
wow, we sure do not sound like omaha folks, though and as i said not at all like folks from wisconsin...
very odd...
we do SOUND like ohio folks, i think, as, a few made a quesss at that, when i lived in south texas...
and, i had been told very oten that i sounded like folks from chicago...
:O
now, when in south texas, the way talk, blends in really even and smooth with the tex-mex down there and i'd pass for local, very easy...
though, i did not use 'the apple SOUND' in my spanish...
:) so perhaps that is why... i know and use 'continental vowels'
all in all a very fun experiment...
though, many of us are just too 'blended' or 'individual'
through moving around, as we grew up
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Eclipze
Trad climber
Morris Plains / Givat Haim Ichud Israel
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Dec 24, 2013 - 05:47am PT
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The idioms and slang I use depends changes with the people I am around. If I am around people from Texas what is everyone doing becomes what are ya'll doing. Or someone foreign my speech also adapts. I'm around people from all over atm so it's kind of a mix
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Dec 24, 2013 - 08:48am PT
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I'm in Montreal, Canada
this quiz said I talk like peoples in Florida and Texas.
YIKES!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:14am PT
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It put me in Philly or newark probobly because i refused to answer the catamount question as i felt that was a dead give away and too easy.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:22am PT
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the 2nd time i took it it made me either a mas#@&%e or from St paul MN
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:28am PT
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3rd time i answeed catamount and they still put me in Massatwoshits..
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:56am PT
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Cool. Hadn't thought to load the actual map. Thanks for the idea Ed H!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 24, 2013 - 10:48am PT
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Canadians seem to break it.
We can break anything! We have super powers!
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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spot on Northern Central valley in CA just south of Sacramento.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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That was fun!
I came out with Stockton, Fresno, and Las Vegas. I guess with me it's California because that's where I went to college and lived last in the U.S. Also, my best English speaking friend in Okinawa for 20 years was from Stockton.
In several cases it was hard to make a choice and I had several words that were spot on for Texas and Colorado, places I lived before the age of 18.
Like Neebee, I had many maps that were dark blue. I would guess that's the result of moving around a lot and being around military people for 30 years from all over the country.It also might be the mark of a creative person who doesn't speak like the norm?
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:02pm PT
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Pittsburgh, W.PA, W.MD. Time to go to speech there-py...
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:03pm PT
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Reno, Lincoln, and Omaha. I have never lived in any those cities. But I was raised as an air force brat and picked words from around the country.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:10pm PT
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hey there, say...
yeah, i think those of us that just don't match all the questions and are too different, it HAS to go by the one or two STRONG traits, and those, can really pinpoint us down to a place that we do not really talk like, but: we MAY have learned the term from childhood friends, a grandparent/parent, or from the type of books/vocab that we grew up on ...
:)
i mean, wow, i was a mid calif gal from age 5? until 20?...
and then, south tex-mex gal, for until age 45?...
and now a michigan new-folk...
but the colors on the map, that were dark for the omaha stuff, etc,
were the same colors found in ONE bit of ohio...
and MANY areas of calif... and nothern states as well as midwest...
so makes me wonder? WHAT were the other defining word-pronounces or terms that pinpointed many of you from areas in calif...
we must OVERLAP somewhere... for me to STILL match most of calif...
i will post the map...
oh, aya:
i always called tennis shoes, tennis shoes...
heard tell other folks have lots of names for them...
:O
oops, i quess THAT means they are for more than just tennis, ;)
oh my.... :)
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:20pm PT
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You should take the quiz more than once...it doesn't use the same 25 questions each time.
It triangulated to within ~100mi of where I spent my first 25 years. Which is great since some of my answers are colored more by my profession than my regional dialect (the curb-strip, median, roundabout/traffic circle, frontage/access road stuff)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:02pm PT
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after 3 trys all the citys except for 1 are within 200m
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:35pm PT
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funny, my map is nearly the compliment of Crimpergirl's!
and I always thought I understood our conversations... maybe I have to reassess (with a Texas-English dictionary!)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:40pm PT
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hey there say, wow, i must add:
with all these 'bits of salt lake city' added in here, i am very curious:
just what do salt lake city folks talk like?
why did 'drinking fountain' from grand rapids, match, salt lake city?
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oh, and florida, why is that 'such a pin point, too???
(the others, i pretty much understand... )
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:56pm PT
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I got pembroke pines, FL.
I've never even been to Florida!
I think DMT is right, I broke the quiz.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 24, 2013 - 03:50pm PT
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maybe I have to reassess
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"Reckon I might need to cipher on that a spell"
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Dec 24, 2013 - 04:35pm PT
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Neebee-
Most of the original Mormons came either from New York or Illinois before they moved to Utah so that could be the connection with Michigan and the midwest.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Dec 24, 2013 - 06:34pm PT
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It says that my speech is similar to everyone else's in the USA except people from Minnesota and New Orleans.
Which interesting since I've lived in
Los Angeles, CA
San Jose, CA
San Diego, CA
Seattle, WA
Denver, CO
Albuquerque, NM
Washington, D.C.
Boston, MA
Providence, RI
Morgantown, WV
Pensacola, FL
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