tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post3122266885357967697..comments2024-03-28T16:26:35.679-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: Dialects And Such...OldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-52090352942343764212013-12-24T05:18:10.010-08:002013-12-24T05:18:10.010-08:00I do believe the military experience can skew the ...I do believe the military experience can skew the results.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-22650189020833658922013-12-23T23:39:07.888-08:002013-12-23T23:39:07.888-08:00I came in as from San Francisco. Ha. I went to gra...I came in as from San Francisco. Ha. I went to grade schools in Texas, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Virginia, Rhode Island, Alabama and New Jersey. 11 very different schools all together, many of them Army kid schools. Oddly, none in California.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-43671475180927605752013-12-23T13:59:42.970-08:002013-12-23T13:59:42.970-08:00The quiz isn't too bad really. I was really pu...The quiz isn't too bad really. I was really puzzled with that Oakland/Stockton/Modesto result until I looked at why. It says because I called a certain traffic structure a "roundabout". Of course, that's what they call it in England, I spent much time with the English while stationed in Germany. So, what did we call that when I was a youth? A rotary. This time the quiz says the closest cities are Worcester and Springfield in Massachusetts and (of course) Providence in Little Rhody.<br /><br />So as a well traveled old fart, I seem to have some California in me. Reverting to my youth, I'm squarely in New England.<br /><br />Of course, this is a very North America centered test. Be interesting if they could come up with one for us military types. (<em>Skoshi</em> - you were either assigned to Japan or had a boss who was. I picked up a number of Thai phrases from my NCOs, I've never set foot in Thailand.)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-54141286939907417962013-12-23T11:53:25.224-08:002013-12-23T11:53:25.224-08:00Louisiana Texas... Right where I grew up!Louisiana Texas... Right where I grew up!Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4569098009276670052013-12-23T11:34:04.612-08:002013-12-23T11:34:04.612-08:00I think as time goes on, a quiz like this will hav...I think as time goes on, a quiz like this will have less and less relevance. We Americans tend to move around a lot as compared to the old days.<br /><br />Then again, you learn the language you hear your elders using. So where ever they are from, you get some of that.<br /><br />We lived in Long Beach, MS for a whole summer. We had a maid and everything. Explains partly why both of my daughters (who were in that "learning to talk" phase at the time) sometimes pronounce things just like a 65-year old black lady from Mississippi. Seems the maid liked to stop and set a spell with <em>The Missus Herself</em> and the young'ns and chat. She was a grand lady who had a wealth of stories. The girls loved that lady.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-498773912172039102013-12-23T11:27:55.713-08:002013-12-23T11:27:55.713-08:00I just re-read your second comment, there were a c...I just re-read your second comment, there were a couple of questions where the answer lent itself to multiple responses.<br /><br />As to some of the others, it would have been nice to pick more than one. (Might be that world-traveler thing we military types are exposed to...)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-51791920015692062902013-12-23T11:26:05.233-08:002013-12-23T11:26:05.233-08:00I too took it twice. Results had me firmly in the ...I too took it twice. Results had me firmly in the Northeast.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-46953834929911912352013-12-23T11:01:47.694-08:002013-12-23T11:01:47.694-08:00Huh; Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina. I'...Huh; Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina. I've never lived in any of those, but my mom's family is from the Clinch River in Tennessee. I suspect a lot of our phrases migrated there, and then to where I was raised in Missouri. Rev. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588179227576383679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-87444433351184314092013-12-23T10:44:16.298-08:002013-12-23T10:44:16.298-08:00The biggest issue I had with the quiz is that it w...The biggest issue I had with the quiz is that it would allow me to select more than one answer.(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-40788564774086030012013-12-23T10:42:30.106-08:002013-12-23T10:42:30.106-08:00I had to take the quiz twice.
Differences in the q...I had to take the quiz twice.<br />Differences in the questionnaire produced different results.<br />The first result had me at Baltimore, New York City, and Yonkers.<br />The second scattered me all over (Baltimore, Modesto, and Salt Lake City).<br />I have it on good authority that Baltimore is pronounced "Bal-mer." (not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-30715319411747105512013-12-23T10:19:10.136-08:002013-12-23T10:19:10.136-08:00And there's nothing wrong with that!
(As a ma...And there's nothing wrong with that!<br /><br />(As a matter of fact, the country needs more of your ilk, in my somewhat learned judgement...)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-31505415926927072272013-12-23T10:17:52.637-08:002013-12-23T10:17:52.637-08:00My brother The Olde Vermonter has lived in Vermont...My brother <em>The Olde Vermonter</em> has lived in Vermont his entire life. He most assuredly has an accent. My Mother tells me that I used to sound just like him.<br /><br />So being out and about wearing a uniform for decades at a time, does tend to water the old accent down a bit.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-54885452095815132382013-12-23T10:12:51.473-08:002013-12-23T10:12:51.473-08:00Wow! Dark red band from SLC to Des Moines to the C...Wow! Dark red band from SLC to Des Moines to the Canadian border.. Guess I'll always be a Rocky Mountain man.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-76912007672891874952013-12-23T10:09:46.243-08:002013-12-23T10:09:46.243-08:00My map. I was kinda-sorta surprised coz, like you...<a href="http://exileinportales.blogspot.com/2013/12/ok-ill-play-too.html" rel="nofollow">My map.</a> I was kinda-sorta surprised coz, like you, I think I've lost what little accent or dialect I ever had... if any.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.com