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re: NYT regional dialect quiz

Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:24 am to
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
18555 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:24 am to
I skipped that one. I didn’t see “blow off” as an option. I may retake it.
Posted by Balloon Huffer
Member since Sep 2010
3421 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:24 am to
Baton Rouge, NOLA, or Jackson.

Because I say 18 wheeler?
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
3490 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:24 am to
Jackson, Birmingham, Montgomery.

Damn New York Times is probably creating a profile on me. They got it right, Montgomery.

Bastards.
Posted by Box Geauxrilla
Member since Jun 2013
19118 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:25 am to
They put me at either Baton Rouge, Irvine, or Amarillo.

Born in Baton Rouge, now live in Texas. Guess these country folk are rubbing off on me.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57462 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:26 am to
All it needed was the neutral ground question to peg anyone from nola
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43319 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:28 am to
Took it again and it was even more specific...Santa Clara, California.
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
56241 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:28 am to
I had no word for the area between the sidewalk and road.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:28 am to
So I got:

Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Jackson, MS

I'm from Baton Rouge, my whole family is from New Orleans, and I married a woman from Jackson, MS (and I went to Ole Miss).


Damn
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35062 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:29 am to
Who says Poor Boy?
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:31 am to
quote:

I wonder if they're playing a little frickery by looking at IP addresses to inform their guesses.


I'm in Nashville currently and got BR, Nola, and Jackson.

So I don't think so.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:31 am to
quote:

Who says Poor Boy?



I assume they meant the phonetic "poboy" and that's what I chose on that question.

They're so clueless they don't even know how to ask the correct questions


This post was edited on 2/13/19 at 10:32 am
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
68111 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:31 am to
quote:

The neutral ground one should be the only answer needed for new Orleans.
They did ask that the first time I took it but it still paced me in New Orleans with the deepest red.
Posted by Lake Vegas Tiger
Lake Vegas
Member since Jun 2014
3248 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:32 am to
so MS or AL, what the frick
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
18555 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:33 am to
Hmm, I retook it with the only change being “blowoff” class and it now says I’m from fricking Texas
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
68111 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:33 am to
quote:

Who says Poor Boy?
An arse named Tom Fitzmorris who does a radio food show in New Orleans for the last 30 plus years. His insistence on saying it like that is annoying, but he's a weirdo regardless.
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
101917 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:36 am to
quote:

Yeah I just took it again, it had different questions, and it said I was from Irving because I called it a blow off class. I only put that because they didn't have an option for "don't have a word for this."


I grew up in the Houston burbs and it was definitely referred to as a blow off class.
Posted by doublecutter
Hear & Their
Member since Oct 2003
6577 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:37 am to
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Jackson
Posted by ellishughtiger
70118
Member since Jul 2004
21135 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:37 am to
Knew I was from BR or Nola. “Neutral ground” got me.
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
38874 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:39 am to
BR-NOLA-Jackson,MS

Holy shite
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
94979 posts
Posted on 2/13/19 at 10:40 am to
quote:

Knew I was from BR or Nola. “Neutral ground” got me.

Neutral ground should be Nola only

We never said that in BR
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