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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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