On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried this survey on my android phone and had no luck. > I just tried it now on Chrome on windows and it worked. > > I have lived in Sudbury Ontario Canada (3 hrs east of Sault Sainte Marie, > MI; 4 hours north of Toronto) for pretty much all my life (46 years) > except for 5 years in Toronto (college/university). I was curious what > the results would give. > > Tacoma WA, Spokane WA, Minneapolis. apparently the strong correlation > was my use of the expression "kitty-corner" meaning diagonally across and > intersection. > > Least similar was: Jackson Mississippi, Lubbock Texas, and New Orleans. > (SNIP) Thanks to all for reporting your results (not that others should not continue to feel free to share). It does seem like the instrument does a pretty good job of localizing dialects independent of any clues that may have been available through the internet connection. I don't think the "Most distinctive answer" is a big part of how they are localizing dialect cities. For example I also use "kitty-corner" (in my head I spell it "kitty-korner") but was appropriately fingered in Northern California. I have the impression that they have a number of questions for which one or two answers localize to a few regions, and they include enough of those to generate some hypotheses, and then use answers to "the most distinctive question" that distinguishes between those regions to come up with their final three. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
