International english dialect online test

[Chukchi Husky]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Italian

I have no idea why it says my dialect is New Zealandish, Australian or Singaporean. I was born in England and I've never left the United Kingdom.

 

[Lohrenswald]

"Scientists have discovered that many of the 'rules' taught in school are wrong anyway." What?

It's about like how the language is how people actually speak it and not normative rules that can be pretty archaic

but this is Owen's field lol

 

[red_elk]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Singaporean
3. South African

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Russian
2. Finnish
3. Polish

Pretty good. Unless they took it from IP of course.

 

[Arakhor]

I wasn't born in Canada. I moved to Canada when I was 2 and my home was Flemish-only until around the age of 7. English is my third language.

So you were born in Belgium or the Netherlands instead?

 

[Synobun]

So you were born in Belgium or the Netherlands instead?

Belgium! Land of the We-Shouldn't-Exists.

 

[sophie]

I had to laugh at one of the initial questions:

"Have you been diagnosed with dyslexia or another language or learning disorder?"

WTH? How do you "diagnose" a language? I suppose they mean a disorder that prevents a person from using language, but it's a really sloppy way to express that.

They're asking if you've been diagnosed with a learning disorder. The sentence is perfectly grammatical and understandable:

Have you been diagnosed with [dyslexia] or [a language disorder] or [a learning disorder]. This is why we use the Oxford comma.

As to @BvBPL 's thing that I don't want to go back and grab:

It's because grammar is supposed to be descriptive, and not prescriptive. What they're saying is that teachers teach a form of grammar that doesn't conform to how English speakers generally speak or write their own language. Demanding that English speakers never end a sentence with a preposition would be a good example of this.

 

[Arakhor]

Belgium! Land of the We-Shouldn't-Exists.

At least you can grow a silly moustache and talk about 'little grey cells', have a bizarre top knot and go into adventuring and journalism or go back to 1st Century BC Brittany and talk about how 'those Romans are crazy'.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

They're asking if you've been diagnosed with a learning disorder. The sentence is perfectly grammatical and understandable:

Have you been diagnosed with [dyslexia] or [a language disorder] or [a learning disorder]. This is why we use the Oxford comma.

I'm happy for you that you understood it. It was not clear to me.

 

[Borachio]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:? 1. English (England) 2. Scottish (UK) 3. Welsh (UK)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:? 1. English 2. Hungarian 3. Finnish

From this, I think we can safely say that their algorithm isn't yet irretrievably broken.

 

[Borachio]

Belgium! Land of the We-Shouldn't-Exists.

This reminds me of the "joke" that people peddled around me twenty years ago. It went:

"Name three famous Belgians"

The implication being, of course, that Belgium was so hopelessly nondescript that you couldn't.

I got fed up with this fairly quickly, so I'd reply:

"Van Gogh, Hergé, and Hercule Poirot."

I'd go on: "Of course, though, Van Gogh is purely fictional, I'll grant you."

(Then run away quickly before someone threw something at me.)

I do, now, realize that there are many other famous Belgians. But probably not many as well known as the three I mentioned, in the circles I then frequented.

And in any case Van Gogh was Dutch. But let's not fall out about that. He did have to cross Belgium to get to France. And that's good enough for me.

 

[Snerk]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Singaporean
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Australian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Italian
2. Arabic
3. Greek

None of these hit the mark. If I have a core English dialect it's a run of the mill type of a south-east English accent. And native is Norwegian. I did kinda rush through the test though.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I almost never speak english out loud so I'm not really sure what I'd sound like

 

[Snerk]

I like to imagine you sound exactly like Michael Caine.

 

[Synobun]

I like to imagine you sound exactly like Michael Caine.

I was thinking more like Michael Cera.

 

[Borachio]

None of these hit the mark. If I have a core English dialect it's a run of the mill type of a south-east English accent. And native is Norwegian. I did kinda rush through the test though.

Ah yes. But dialect and accent aren't the same. Dialect is to do with grammar and lexicon. Accent is purely how you sound. And, if I remember correctly, from some vocal thingy way back, you had a distinctly Norwegian accent. Nothing wrong with that, I hasten to add.

 

[Snerk]

Ah yes. But dialect and accent aren't the same. Dialect is to do with grammar and lexicon. Accent is purely how you sound. And, if I remember correctly, from some vocal thingy way back, you had a distinctly Norwegian accent. Nothing wrong with that, I hasten to add.

A vocal thingy with me? I'm quite sure I've never done a vocal thingy here I'm afraid.

 

[Snerk]

I was thinking more like Michael Cera.

Let's settle with Michael Palin.

 

[Borachio]

A vocal thingy with me? I'm quite sure I've never done a vocal thingy here I'm afraid.

Oh well, my mistake. (I make a lot of those.)

Vocaroo, that was it!

But as you say, it wasn't you. Some other Norwegian, then.

 

[Lohrenswald]

was it me

 

[Snerk]

Lohr has done some voice samples. But just the odd names and stuff AFAIK. We should do more of those, it's kinda fun.