{"id":767,"date":"2006-12-04T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T10:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2006-12-04T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T10:10:37","slug":"whats_my_accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/04\/whats_my_accent\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s My Accent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning, kids — I’m back in the blogosphere after a few days offline. Hope my absence wasn’t too traumatic for you. I’ve been hosting my good friend (and Simple Tricks regular) from the City of Angels, Cranky Robert. I showed him some of the winter-time sights<\/a> of the SLC and introduced him to the wonder that is the Star Burger<\/a> (not to mention the stuffed head of Buck the dog<\/a>, a.k.a. Newfy); we also toured the galleries of the local aerospace museum<\/a>, drank a lot of coffee beverages, and talked ourselves hoarse about every subject imaginable, from politics to Lord of the Rings<\/i>, Spider-Man<\/i>, and Homer, to how hot the tatooed quasi-Goth chicks in the Sugarhouse neighborhood are. It was a good weekend, and I wish weekends like it came more frequently.<\/p>\n

I have a number of topics I’m itching to write about, but the way my day is shaping up, I probably won’t get to them today. In the meantime, here are the results an interesting little quiz<\/a> that I picked up from Brian Greenberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What American accent do you have?<\/b><\/p>\n
Your Result: The West<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The Midland<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Central<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Inland North<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Philadelphia<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The South<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Northeast<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What American accent do you have?<\/b><\/a>
\nTake More Quizzes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

What I find interesting about this isn’t so much the specific result — I know I’m from the West, after all — as the accuracy of the result coming from the method used. Brian has several comments on his blog from people who all say the quiz correctly nailed their accents based on only 13 textual questions. Very impressive, I think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morning, kids — I’m back in the blogosphere after a few days offline. Hope my absence wasn’t too traumatic for you. I’ve been hosting my good friend (and Simple Tricks regular) from the City of Angels, Cranky Robert. I showed him some of the winter-time sights of the SLC and introduced him to the wonder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}