Not all battles are fought with a sword
For years I’ve wanted to know exactly how to cook a game hen using lava, and thanks to Carlos I finally found a good set of instructions. I can get the banana leaves from the green house and the game hen (or equivalent) from Willie’s, but the lava is a bit of a problem. Hot air is easy enough to come by (we are a university, after all), but I’ve never seen it melt stone…
There seem to be a vast ocean of “surveys” that are all the rage on places like LiveJournal these days. Most are pretty silly in a not terribly funny way (“Answer 10 questions and we’ll tell which Canadian province you’re most like”), but this one was mildly amusing. You answer a bunch of questions about your use of American English (that’s there just to annoy WeatherGirl) and they indicate where your linguistic influences come from.
Their analysis of me is pretty accurate; they certainly picked up the mid-western bias. One might expect more “Dixie” given that I grew up in Texas, but Northwest Texas where I grew up is more Texas than Dixie, and has heavy ties to the lower mid-west accents. That, combined with parents who grew up in Chicago and California, and nearly 20 years in non-Texas places, has made my accent pretty non-Dixie.
Now I need to get WeatherGirl and Sub-Evil Boy to do it and see where they come out.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 75% General American English |
| 10% Dixie |
| 10% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 0% Yankee |
In breaking news, WeatherGirl and Sub-Evil Boy did the survey as well. Read on for their results…