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: 2014-09-02 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.