| What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard. | |
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Post Date - Thursday, July 10, 2008
9 comments:
Mine cam out Boston, even though I moved away more than 30 years ago. But, my students still give me crap when I say words like horrible, orange and a couple I'll be using a lot since I'll be teaching Geometry next year; horizontal and corrosponding.
Hello Max. Thanks for stopping by. Next year you're going to be teaching Geometry? I thought that you were teaching computers. I thought you wrote somewhere that you had to set up the computer lab.
When I was brought over to the school I'm at now it was mostly for the 1/2 time position as STS (School Technology Specialist), which I am still doing - that's why I get to set up the computer lab. At the time there wasn't any math classes, so I did STS half the time and taught computers the other half. As people have retired and moved on math classes opened, and since that's what I'm endorsed in, I've shifted away from the math classes. I'm also endorsed to teach psychology, so that's how I picked up that class. Next year will be the first year, at the high school, where I will not be teaching any computer classes, but I will still be the STS half time.
Sorry, I mean I shifted away from the computer classes, to the maht classes
Hello Max. Thanks for the clarification and correction. Good luck with your High School Math Classes.
Thanks, I've never taught Geometry before, so it's going to be a learning year for me....
Just don't let them see you sweat.
My most common accent is always the western one when I take this quiz. However, I switch my speech patterns and accent to accomodate those to whom I'm speaking. For example, if I'm in a small town in Utah, I know I'm not likely to be perceived as friendly if I sound too sophisticated or talk like a grammar book, so I slide into the broad twang and local slang used by the ordinary folks there. Or if I am speaking with someone whose first language is not English, I automatically simplify my grammar (no contractions, no complex or compound sentences, etc.) and slow my speech. When I'm in Scotland, my vocabulary changes to match theirs (hire a car, not rent a car -- trousers not pants, etc.) and I consciously change my intonation and some pronunciation (aluminum, military, literature, etc.) to sound less distant and foreign. I never imitate their full accent, for I would sound stupid and make them distance themselves from me if I did, but I change enough to make my speech more appealing to them.
Oh, and Max only does have a few words now with the Boston accent. He's been in Utah so long that he sounds mostly like a Utahn much of the time, alhtough he's never picked up some of the awful pronunciations of roof, creek, and drawer that some Utahns have.
Hello Paperback. Wow, you've made conversation an artform. Thanks for stopping by.
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