American English
Since I've now lived in the South for almost 2 years, I'm getting better at noticing differences in dialect and speech patterns. I think it's fun to notice the differences in vocabulary and phrasing. Two websites that I like about American language are:
A quiz from PBS where people from various parts of the country say a sentence, and you have to try to match up what part of the country the person is from.
A quiz based on dialect to tell what percent Yankee or Dixie you are. (I scored 55% Dixie, I demand a recount!!! There is no way it's that high. hmph.)
A quiz from PBS where people from various parts of the country say a sentence, and you have to try to match up what part of the country the person is from.
A quiz based on dialect to tell what percent Yankee or Dixie you are. (I scored 55% Dixie, I demand a recount!!! There is no way it's that high. hmph.)
posted by bethany at 9:52 PM
8 Comments:
HAHA! Be proud of your Dixie-ness! Speaking and writing unsound English is a problem across the U.S. I hear people speaking poorly worded sentences everywhere I go.
Trust me, I'm just not Southern.
What is it to be "Southern" though. It's very nice, actually. You can be laid-back, eloquent, witty, friendly, interesting, and funny. There are many more wonderful Southern attributes,, but they'd take up innumerable blogs.
You can be all those things and not from the South also. And to reiterate, I am not Southern.
So true that those good attributes can be held by those not Southern...is Southern bad? Is there a reason not to be Southern? Are you sure you're not Southern? I detected a distinctly Southern flavor in your reiteration...
trust me, bethany is as southern as fried okra and gone with the wind.
HAHA...Micah has spilled the proverbial beans. Joking, Bethany. You should be who God made you. He made me Southern, I suppose.
Yes, She did.
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