All these Zeph impersonators are really messing with me

^+1

^^ +2

^^^ +3

Zeph has become a living meme.


He must be taken to the camp, to be experimented on by Joseph Mengle himself.

Quiz 1: I'm from the East coast, most likely Maine or Florida (My home state was similar, but not as much as those two)
Quiz 2 top 3 dialects:
My dialect is American standard.
Canadian
Singaporean.
My top 3 primary languages are:
English
Norwegian
Swedish.


Odd, since I have no Nordic heritage.

Got 1. Singaporean 2. Welsh 3. Australian
For first language I received 1. English 2. Chinese 3. Swedish

Not correct, but still fairly accurate.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics   
2. American (Standard)
3. Singaporean   (mkay)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. Swedish
2. Dutch
3. English

Edited 4/11/2016 03:58:56

1st quiz - most similar

1. San Antonio
2. Plano
3. Irving
(Actual: Houston)

1st quiz - least similar
1. Buffalo
2. Rochester
3. Detroit
(Actual: probably New England)

2nd quiz - dialect

1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
(Actual: some subset of "Standard American English")

2nd quiz - native language

1. English
2. Dutch
3. Norwegian
(Actual: Hindi)

1st quiz was fairly accurate for me (right state, top 3 cities were a bit off):
http://nyti.ms/23nCLmz

My actual city's one of the deeper-red hotspots on there, at least. It definitely recognizes that I'm from Texas- not too hard, given that Texan speech is fairly distinctive. I also hadn't realized before that "blow-off class" wasn't a term used throughout the entire United States.

That said, my accent isn't entirely Texan- given that I've spent significant chunks of my life in other places (India, California, Pennsylvania) and that I intentionally deviate from some tendencies, like using "coke" to refer to soft drinks in general (I'd be okay with calling them all Dr Pepper, though!).

2nd quiz:
http://bit.ly/1ovlgZq

It correctly recognized that I'm not a third-world illiterate pleb- my style of English was closest to the elusive Standard American English with some similarities to Canadian English and Black Vernacular English. The BVE similarities probably come from habits I've picked up in the South- or from general similarities between BVE and Standard American/Texan English.

What's more interesting, though, is that the quiz thought my native language was English- or possibly Dutch or Norwegian. I'd forgive it for thinking English (given that I say things out loud in my head in English, not Hindi) but I'm curious as to how it got Dutch/Norwegian. I've never even been in either of those two countries- not even in a layover- nor interacted with a native Dutch person or Norwegian.

Interesting quizzes, though- and mostly predictable results for me.

Edited 4/11/2016 04:17:20

I'm curious as to how it got Dutch/Norwegian. I've never even been in either of those two countries- not even in a layover- nor interacted with a native Dutch person or Norwegian.

Dutch is a West Germanic tongue like English, and Norwegian is North Germanic (but the North Germanic tongues influenced English grammar quite a bit, too). They have like grammar builds to English, so they're a go-to if it gets hints that you are a native Englisher.

That's what I'm leaning toward as well, after seeing others' results.

https://goo.gl/NDLh0N

I speak none of the languages the result suggested...

Nobody else got Scottish as their 1, 2, or 3 :(

But the quiz did say that if you aren't native to Scotland you have a very low chance of overlapping on the same tendencies.

edit: yeah you did actually ;)

Edited 4/11/2016 13:36:31

I got it as the 2nd

Edited 4/11/2016 13:31:37

First one I got Little Rock, Lexington, and Honolulu as my 3 closest ones. I guess my dialect is closest to the light south, but I don't have an American dialect so it's hard to distinguish. I get around 60% consistently in Kentucky, which is overall my highest and after that getting heat in Arkansas, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Least similar is Springfield (Massachusetts), Newark/Paterson, and St.Paul/Minneapolis. All quite far north. I'm quite surprised, I thought I'd be closer to the northern states but I guess not. My least similar state as a whole is Connecticut.

Georgia , Alabama , Lousiana ! Ride my dick into da sun brotha! for the dixie!

Interesting, all my three closest ones are in California.

No idea about that, lol.

https://gyazo.com/c6a1456a44ad9569d7fb9d7144e417ac
Well for the world one it was right.

1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

yo what up mayne

Edited 4/11/2016 18:46:31