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 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!