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Stevie_B
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| 31 points, good game, thanks for the link. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Interesting game, but I did dismally (17 pts.)  |
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Chris_Dixon
Joined: 09 Jan 2008
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| 24...was pretty hard. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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I got a whopping 12 pts. I knew I don't have an ear for accents. It was fun trying to distinguish a Lithuanian from an Estonian accent, an Austrian from a German. Hopeless in my case. I had no better luck with the native speakers.
Anyway, it was fun to guess. |
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modustollens
Joined: 01 Apr 2008
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| The test won't work for it requires one to make an inductive inference about a regional accent based upon only one person. Plus there are lots of inter-individual differences even within the same accent group. It is an interesting test but ultimately the numerical results are insignificant. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The test won't work for it requires one to make an inductive inference about a regional accent based upon only one person. Plus there are lots of inter-individual differences even within the same accent group. It is an interesting test but ultimately the numerical results are insignificant. |
you talk pretty |
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modustollens
Joined: 01 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| The test won't work for it requires one to make an inductive inference about a regional accent based upon only one person. Plus there are lots of inter-individual differences even within the same accent group. It is an interesting test but ultimately the numerical results are insignificant. |
you talk pretty |
A curt reply but what's that supposed to mean? I a bit of a dolt vis a vis Daves' vernacular. |
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MANDRL
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| 30, fun link. |
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Stevie_B
Joined: 14 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| The test won't work for it requires one to make an inductive inference about a regional accent based upon only one person. Plus there are lots of inter-individual differences even within the same accent group. It is an interesting test but ultimately the numerical results are insignificant. |
Yes, I agree. What they should have had was a fair sized sample from across all social and age groups within each accent grouping - say 1,000 in each. They should also have spoken in a number of different settings, from informal to formal. Only after listening to 1,000 people speak for around five minutes each should you have been required to make an educated guess about their probable linguistic provenance, and after answering for 20 accents, maybe a fair score could be attained.
Idiot. Just play the frigging game. |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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I got 24, my sister got 15. Fun game.  |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| modustollens wrote: |
| The test won't work for it requires one to make an inductive inference about a regional accent based upon only one person. Plus there are lots of inter-individual differences even within the same accent group. It is an interesting test but ultimately the numerical results are insignificant. |
As billybrobby would say, "That's a pretty roundabout way of saying you got a shitty score."
The game is a lot more fun if you play [bwithout[/b] a stick up your ass.
I got a 33. |
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aerialsimulacrum
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: Space is the place
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I got a 32. I missed the Canadian, South African, Scot, Hungarian, and Austrian. I got the Lithuanian and Belgian due to random guessing and got two extra points for identifying the woman from Chicago. The Australian and New Zealander were easy because I recognized the vowel shift.
The Spaniard gave himself away due to improper use of the /j/. He then said he was from "ɛspain". |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| I got 31, but it was difficult because many of the accents were mild. |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| 28 - helps if you are a Brit with a lot of them - hard test though! |
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