Um, well, yeah...

[bjarvis]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West
The Midland
Boston
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have?

Comments

Gee, what a surprise

[gingy.livejournal.com]

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

There's some kinda broken html thing happening here, screwing up S2 views in LJ.

[jss]

And S1. There's corrupt HTML in the table around the image causing the "n comments | reply" links to be disassociated from the text of the entry.

Also, I don't know if it's 'cause the image is corrupt or if someone's doing something stupid and putting white-on-white text, but there are no values on the right column of the image. This leads oone to even more of a "So the fuck what?" moment than most memes.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Not sure what the issue is with the code but it's not worth the time to figure out what offends S1/S1 views so I've tucked it behind a cut to at least limit the damage.

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Original creators of bad html-generating memes have a special place in hell!

[apparentparadox]

It was spot on for me:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North


You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."


Doesn't everyone call them pop?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everyone call them pop?

Everyone who matters.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Strange - I recall you calling them "sodas" more often...

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Philadelphia? I sound like I'm from Philadelphia? Shoot me now.

No, wait - shoot my parents. It's their fault.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm intentionally dumbing down my vocabulary to blend in.

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

I call 'em soft drinks. When I lived in Texas, lots of folks lumped them into one group and called them all "cokes".

Midwest Accent

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

Gee, no surprise - Inland North. I always knew I didn't have an accent, everyone else does. As far as the pop/soda. bag/sack debate, when you travel as much as I do you learn to call it by the regional name so as not to appear as a tourist.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Riiiiight...

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

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oops...wrong keyboard....

Anyway, I hate how they lump all the "West" together. The Pacific Northwest, expesially the rural areas, talk nothing like they do in California.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

case in point:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Boston   You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The West
The Midland
North Central
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
The South
What American accent do you have?

This makes very little sense...the closest I can get for an ancestor from that part of the world is a french-canadian great grandfather. But the answers to the quiz were easy and obvious for me.