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posted by [personal profile] kalpurna at 02:48am on 02/11/2006
I took that accent quiz that's been making the rounds, and it was fairly accurate:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

The Northeast
The Midland
The Inland North
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have?
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(Central Jersey, but definitely close enough.) I think I answered "they sound different" for every single set of words on there. Is that evidence of an accent? Huh!
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posted by [identity profile] shoemaster.livejournal.com at 07:59am on 02/11/2006
I'm going to make you say all of those words to me. How the hell do don and dawn sound different? Cot and caught? *is so midland but really west, too*
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posted by [identity profile] kalpurna.livejournal.com at 08:21am on 02/11/2006
Dude, you are SO not from Jersey.
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posted by [identity profile] shoemaster.livejournal.com at 04:02pm on 02/11/2006
...I had guessed that, seeing as, you know, I grew up in California and didn't even leave the state until I was 12.
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posted by [identity profile] kalpurna.livejournal.com at 09:08pm on 02/11/2006
:P
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posted by [identity profile] ifreet.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 02/11/2006
Cot and caught sound the same to me, too, but don and dawn are different. "Dawn" has an 'aw' like "Awww, look at the kitten" -- it's a bit longer, has a bit of a diphthong going. In "Don" the 'o' is short and clean.
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posted by [identity profile] kalpurna.livejournal.com at 09:07pm on 02/11/2006
I don't get how cot and caught pans out differently than don and dawn! I pronounce don/dawn the way you do, but I ALSO pronounce cot/caught the same way. Huh! Oh language, I love you so.
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posted by [identity profile] ifreet.livejournal.com at 09:32pm on 02/11/2006
I know cot and caught look different, but I say the vowels in both "ah." I guess w's are more important to me than weird combinations ending in "gh". ^_^ Accents are fun.
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posted by [identity profile] kalpurna.livejournal.com at 09:35pm on 02/11/2006
They so ARE. Maybe after next quarter, I'll actually be able to explain such things! (Phonetics and phonology, baby!)
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Yay!

posted by [identity profile] ifreet.livejournal.com at 09:45pm on 02/11/2006
I loved linguistics -- I took the anthropological linguistics survey class and a linguistic course offered through the German department, but I was intimidated by the regular linguistic department. Can't remember exactly why, now. Something about there being a lot of math?
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posted by [identity profile] kalpurna.livejournal.com at 10:15pm on 02/11/2006
Uhm. Math? *fears*

I'm a linguistics major, or will be, but I tend very much more toward the sociolinguistics/historical linguistics side of the discipline than the computational side. It depends on your college, really, what they end up emphasizing more.
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