What's your accent?
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. | |
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| The Inland North | |
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| What American accent do you have? | |
Hat Tip: Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
Funny, Mr Chaucer himself asks, 'What is this Amerique?'
And interesting since I am a native Tennessean.
posted by Art @ 11:11 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
i haven't taken the quiz yet (though i plan to), but having studied a bit of linguistics in college, and following what i can now (which is not to say much), i'm a bit offended that the midland accent (however flat it is) would be considered as having 'no accent'.
it is an accent, it's just a more culturally okay accent. which is snobbish, esp. for us midwesterners, who love to think that anybody who talks different than us is goofy. which may be true, but still...
So, I apparently have an american accent but if I tell you what it is, will you hold it against me???
The Northeast
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
I love their disclaimer: If the answer you got was way, way off what it should be, well, there's probably a reason for that, but we can't figure it out now.
I must admit I was disappointed that I wasn't told I had a good "TV voice".
Jasdye, I think that the midland comment is actually a compliment. It shows that this accent has become the standard in America and, as such, is the de facto 'non-accent'. And I think it is fairly accurate in my case. Wherever I've travelled in this great land of ours, from my back porch to the deep South, all the way to the Pacific Northwest, people say things like, "You're not from here, are you?"
Carolanne, YOU are a Yankee? OMG! But don't worry about 'not having a good TV voice'. They said I did and (laugh) they've never heard me speak!
Funny though, I may not have what is considered to be a typical Southern (US) accent in normal everyday conversation but I can do a dang good fake one!
Y'hear.
Hi:)
which accent is followed in Hollywood movies?
So Art,
Where can I hear this southern accent of yours? Have you ever done a blog post and included your voice? :)
One of my American friends has actually said that I don't have an accent anyway - not even an Aussie one.
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