Yankee or Dixie???

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by SHEETCAKE

100% DELICIOUS, which is really all that matters.

wtf?

[PiKA2001]

I got 45% Yankee but my question is.. What am I 55% of??

-On a side note I did see some questions mention Great Lakes area dialect, so maybe that comes into play with the unknown 55%

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

I got 45% Yankee but my question is.. What am I 55% of??

-On a side note I did see some questions mention Great Lakes area dialect, so maybe that comes into play with the unknown 55%

The percentages are just used to determine the number of questions you answer pertaining to the southeastern, so it's saying that since you are less than 50% dixie, then are yankee. so you aren't 55% of anything, its just how the test scores.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

I got 45% Yankee but my question is.. What am I 55% of??

-On a side note I did see some questions mention Great Lakes area dialect, so maybe that comes into play with the unknown 55%

I scored the same thing, which makes total sense, since we are from the same area.

I don't quite get the scoring either though and figured, like you did, that the rest was Great Lakes.

[SHEETCAKE]

Originally Posted by nate2512

wtf?

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by SHEETCAKE

LOL, hooray Sheetcake's back!

And reading this thread, all I can hear in my head is that exchange between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" when they're in the museum talking in the funny voices and he's trying to get her to say "Pee-can pieee".

I put people that insist on "puh-cahn" in the same category with the people that insist on "fihnance" (real fast, almost monosyllabic) instead of "fie-nance". As though the mere pronunciation makes their context superior. Whatever. Move on.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Every Duane I know pronounces their name "Doo-Juan."

I'm not in the business of telling people how to pronounce their names.

theres a difference between how someone chooses to pronounce their own name and how a chain store pronounces its name among the public. go ahead and say "doo-juan" and everyone who knows otherwise will, at best sigh and think "bless their heart, they must not be from here" or at worst, sigh and think "what an effing idiot/snooty @ss."

fortunately, in the instance i recall most recently, the kid just didnt know, wasnt from the area.

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

LOL, hooray Sheetcake's back!

And reading this thread, all I can hear in my head is that exchange between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" when they're in the museum talking in the funny voices and he's trying to get her to say "Pee-can pieee".

I put people that insist on "puh-cahn" in the same category with the people that insist on "fihnance" (real fast, almost monosyllabic) instead of "fie-nance". As though the mere pronunciation makes their context superior. Whatever. Move on.

i thought that it was a European thing...

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by tld221

i thought that it was a European thing...

Could be. But it's also annoyingly prevalent among MBAs and among those in "fihnance".

[tld221]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

<-----has no idea what Duane Reade is, anyway

its a chain drug store in the city, kinda like the Starbucks of drug stores here, so its something the everyday New Yorker would know how to pronounce, as with pronouncing Houston and Stuyvesant.

(and you know i meant the general "you" right?)

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

LOL, hooray Sheetcake's back!

And reading this thread, all I can hear in my head is that exchange between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" when they're in the museum talking in the funny voices and he's trying to get her to say "Pee-can pieee".

I put people that insist on "puh-cahn" in the same category with the people that insist on "fihnance" (real fast, almost monosyllabic) instead of "fie-nance". As though the mere pronunciation makes their context superior. Whatever. Move on.

I say puh-cahn, and fienance, so how those tuhmaters.

[SHEETCAKE]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

LOL, hooray Sheetcake's back!

SHEETCAKE really loves that Google interns cake.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Wow, I scored 60% - Dixie.

Was it "Potato Bug"? Or "Drinking Fountain"? or "Pop" that did it? No, I don't think so. I only answered "southern" to "Y'all" and "Bag," which doesn't seem over the top dixie to me. Actually, my responses mostly indicated that I belong somewhere in Wisconsin or Illinois I think.