Friday Random Ten-and-Quiz
So I have just under half my music collection imported - that's enough to do a Random Ten, isn't it? Of course it is.
- Davy Spillane - Sound of Stone: Artists for Mullaghmore - The May Morning Dew
- Fairport Convention - Jewel in the Crown - Kind Fortune
- Nightnoise - Something of Time - Something of Time
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Breathe
- Kimberly M'carver - Breathe the Moonlight - Whistle Down the Wind
- Stephane Grappelli - Shades of Django - Lover Man
- Stephane Grappelli - Shades of Django - My Heart Stood Still
- New Creation - This Is The Day - Echo of Your Peace
Do not accept any similarly-named gospel imitators! This is the one and only New Creation to feature the fabulous vocal stylings of my aunt and uncle! - The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown - Junkie Town
- Cordelia's Dad - Spine - Imaginary Trouble
Quiz after the jump. Yes, there will be rock blogging this week - it'll be up in the merest eyeblink of geologic time, I promise you.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 80% General American English |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
California has so homogenized me. (via Rana)
I don’t know that you can blame California for that. I’ve lived here for over 25 years, and I’m a lot more Yankee than you. (Which is a bit odd, given that _none_ of my relatives are from that part of the country. If anything, I should skew more Midwestern than I do.)
I see we have some overlap in our music lists!
Just a touch!
The quiz seems to be defective - it doesn’t capture Midwest regionalisms very well. But people do comment that I gain twang when I’ve been talking to my family, so I assume there’s something going on.
Hee. I’m an accent chameleon when I’m not careful. I know that I _do_ have some sort of accent, as I sound _exactly_ like my cousin (who also grew up in California and has the same family background (obviously)). But if you put me in proximity with someone who has a defined way of speaking, I end up picking it up.
The ones that fit best were Australian (well enough to fool some actual Australians) and Southern (my dad’s from the upper South/lower Midwest), but I’ve also “caught” an English accent from a landlady and endured the confusion when I spent two weeks on a camping trip with both California surfer types and Southern folks.
Dude! Totally cool beans, y’all! *eyeroll*
Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Given that I’m British, I have no idea what that means…
The quiz is *actively* defective. It’s based on info by Bert Vaux, if you’re curious about actual real dialect differences.
65% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Very interesting, and a little bizarre…