Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place

[Chieftess]

North American English Accent Map -

Spoiler :

I don't agree with inland-south covering the Appalachians and Texas. They seem to be two seperate accents to me - Country and Texan, with Lowland South being the Deep Southern accent that we all know an love.

The funny thing is, I have a simplified "Future Languages" map that I was working on (well before seeing this map), and New England/MidAtlantic accent borders match very closely to what I had.

 

[Bobbtjoe]

When are the winners going to be announced.

 

[DroopyTofu]

That is a facinating map. I could spend a whole lot of time studying that. It's interesting how the Inland Southern seems to follow the Tennessee River. I also find it interesting that the Southern accent ends immediatly along it's entire border at the Ohio River and that Cinninatti has it's ownl little pocket south of the Ohio. The North-East is just a huge mess.

 

[madviking]

Oddly, on the Northeast inset, I pronounce "don" [to don a jacket] and "dawn" [before day comes dawn] exactly the same... I so don't understand that difference.

 

[Yared]

You can also pronounce it (I think - foreigner here!) don like bone without the e, or fun but with an o.

Get it? Or like how Ron is pronounced in the Harry Potter movies

 

[madviking]

But I'd never met anyone who pronounces it that way.

Something more interesting would be "orange" vs. "awrange", which I am the latter.

 

[Yared]

I pronounce it "orange".

My accent is a mishmash of American English from media and British English from school. I should look at the map and try to "trace my heritage"

 

[W|M]

same here, but I live in Britain so it´s more British

 

[choxorn]

I don't agree with inland-south covering the Appalachians and Texas. They seem to be two seperate accents to me - Country and Texan, with Lowland South being the Deep Southern accent that we all know an love.

Likewise, there is more than one accent spoken in the Western half of the country.

 

[Chieftess]

Oddly, on the Northeast inset, I pronounce "don" [to don a jacket] and "dawn" [before day comes dawn] exactly the same... I so don't understand that difference.

I pronounce "dawn" with the "aught" sound. Of course, Dawn is also the name of my cousin.

Likewise, there is more than one accent spoken in the Western half of the country.

Yeah, that map doesn't do justice to the western states (the forum experienced slowness when I was trying to comment on that). I know that the Northwest has a very distinct sound - we have this 3rd party software vendor at work from Seattle that we talk to frequently, and one person has a distinct Seattle accent (there's a site I found that has audio of various regional US accents).

To give the west some credit, though, it's only been populated for some 150 years (enough for it to start forming accents), versus the up to 400 years for the northeast.

That is a facinating map. I could spend a whole lot of time studying that. It's interesting how the Inland Southern seems to follow the Tennessee River. I also find it interesting that the Southern accent ends immediatly along it's entire border at the Ohio River and that Cinninatti has it's ownl little pocket south of the Ohio. The North-East is just a huge mess.

It's the isolation. Land features like rivers, mountains, land formations, and climatic areas tend to isolate groups of people, or split two or more groups into seperate directions (like the Himalayans splitting people into central and southern Asia). The Ohio Valley area seems to be a large farming community with scattered medium-sized cities (save for Chicago being the cultural/economic hub), rather than the Mid-Atlantic's dense, and tightly compact space. The Northeast has northern (French Vermont) and southern Bostonian, both seperated from Mid-Atlantic by the Hudson River.

 

[Winner]

When are the winners going to be announced.

Who should announce them? I hope it's not me - I merely suggested the maps.

(And I am leaving for my Mecca holiday with my suitcase nuke soon. You'll see me in the news ).

Seriously, if I were to decide this, tailless would win by a laaaaaaarge margin.

 

[sophie]

A very interesting map. I find things like that very cool.

 

[Tee Kay]

Who should announce them? I hope it's not me - I merely suggested the maps.

Well, I thought you would, actually.

Seriously, if I were to decide this, tailless would win by a laaaaaaarge margin.

Thank you sir. *bows*

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Spoiler :

 

[Tee Kay]

^ Awesome map is awesome

I loled at all the "Becks Non-Alcoholic"

 

[NedimNapoleon]

^ Awesome map is awesome

I loled at all the "Becks Non-Alcoholic"

Gadafis favourite drink

 

[madviking]

Baltika is a decent brew. Tho they needed to put a different brew on Germany, like Warsteiner or Hofbrau.

 

[Winner]

Spoiler :

Budweiser in America, what a bad joke.

 

[Mathalamus]

Canadian beer is better anyways.

 

[classical_hero]

Why do people think that Very Bad beer is the beer the Australians drink? Even as a teetotaller, I understand that that beer is absolutely terrible.