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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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this just in
climber
north fork
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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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