I am NOT a Native Singaporean
Sep. 1st, 2014 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elrhiarhodanBecause I am a sheep (with a most luxurious fleece and outrageously long eyelashes), I needed to take the "What English Are You" quiz that my most lovely enabler, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sinfulslasher mentioned on her LJ.
It seems that I am actually a native Singaporean. Or an Australian. Or maybe Welsh. Definitely NOT a Native New Yorker. Heaven forbid!
See how messed up the quiz is when you take it!
sinfulslasher mentioned on her LJ.It seems that I am actually a native Singaporean. Or an Australian. Or maybe Welsh. Definitely NOT a Native New Yorker. Heaven forbid!
See how messed up the quiz is when you take it!
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Date: 2014-09-01 05:32 pm (UTC)1. American (Standard) -- correct
2. Canadian -- not so far off
3. American Black Vernacular -- ethnically wrong, but still the right region
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Date: 2014-09-01 02:32 pm (UTC)1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. Vietnamese
3. Dutch
Native Californian so fairly accurate.
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Date: 2014-09-01 02:53 pm (UTC)1. Welsh (UK)
2. English (England)
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish
It's the fault of all those British podcasts I listen to, I'm sure. There are constructions I accept as grammatical even though I don't use them myself. At least, I've gotten used to hearing "They agreed a truce" instead of "They agreed to a truce."
I'm pleased to be suspected of being Welsh.
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Date: 2014-09-01 02:59 pm (UTC)Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. Australian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish
Now I'm wondering whether "Canadian" is one of the dialects the test detects. The grammar is similar to American Standard (in my experience, which is limited to Ontario), but certain word choices are different.
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Date: 2014-09-01 03:16 pm (UTC)American standard
Singaporean
Norweagian
Top three gueses for native language
English
German
Swedish
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Date: 2014-09-01 03:38 pm (UTC)It guessed I had a Welsh, English or South African dialect, but it also guessed that I was either English, Norwegian or Swedish, so. *shrug* I think it did pretty well.
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Date: 2014-09-01 04:23 pm (UTC)Top three guesses for my native language were English, Norwegian and Dutch. Really?
I know my English isn't quite American standard all the time; I tend to be a bit of a mimic, incorporating bits and pieces of other dialects when they appeal to me. There are times when I sound more British than American because of all the British tv and books/fanfiction I consume. But some of that was just baffling... Ebonics, really? I'm not even black, nor do I live in the inner city.
If nothing else, it was an entertaining way to start the day.
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Date: 2014-09-01 04:46 pm (UTC)or more accurately, as we're now vegetarian...
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Date: 2014-09-01 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-01 08:25 pm (UTC)English Dialect:
1) Canadian
2)American Standard (not the toilet)
3)US Black/Eubonics
Native Language
1)English
2)Norwegian
3)Dutch
Kinda of wonder if the Dutch influence comes from NYC or PA Dutch/Amish
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Date: 2014-09-02 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-01 08:44 pm (UTC)Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Australian
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
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Date: 2014-09-01 10:34 pm (UTC)Vietnamese, English, Swedish.
Native language is German, though. Don't know how I made all these Asian dialects. Would have thought the algorithm would be more accurate than with other languages, seeing as German and English are very closely related. Huh.
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Date: 2014-09-02 06:34 pm (UTC)It's what trips up English speakers in speaking German, and probably goes the other way as well.
To paraphrase one of my German teachers, you COULD say something a certain way (and not have it be technically incorrect)... but nobody does. English is the same!
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Date: 2014-09-01 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-01 11:38 pm (UTC)1) Singaporean
2) American (standart)
3) US Black Vernacular/Ebonics
Native language guess:
1) Romanian
2) Greek
3) English
Ummm, not even one slavic language? I'd understand Slovakian, Polish or even Croatian or something... but seriously - Romanian and Greek???
Huh.
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Date: 2014-09-01 11:56 pm (UTC)But really - what did happen to all Slavic languages? (I'm Czech.)
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Date: 2014-09-02 07:56 am (UTC)1. Singaporean
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. South African
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. German
3. Dutch
Native Belgian, so dutch and I guess German is very linear to dutch, so it is fairly accurate, except for the accent... Singaporean????
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Date: 2014-09-02 06:29 pm (UTC)The only surprise was that choices #2 and #3 were not ALSO American (Standard) English. :D
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
What's funny is that the Dutch often have more accurate English grammar than many native American speakers, so I can understand that as a possibility. The Norwegian, though?
Native Oregonian, now living in California, where the dialect and deviation from American Standard are about as minimal as it gets.
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Date: 2014-09-03 12:58 am (UTC)Raised in California, Canadian grandparents, almost a decade living in New Zealand.