Well...maybe it does? Because we actually don't know, and there's no native speaker around who could confirm that nobody of us sounds like we live in a ghetto. (Racist stereotype, sorry).
International english dialect online test
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Algorith very often recognizes "ebonics" dialect for non-native speakers, including me.
I doubt I could pick up this dialect anywhere - the people I've spoken to were either Russian teachers or Asians or native speakers, ~90% of whom were white.
Most likely, my real dialect is called "broken English".
I doubt I could pick up this dialect anywhere - the people I've spoken to were either Russian teachers or Asians or native speakers, ~90% of whom were white.
Most likely, my real dialect is called "broken English".
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Hmm, there still seems some confusion here between dialect and accent. The test has nothing to do at all with accent.
But still.
Perhaps some non-native speakers of English are getting classified as ebonics speakers because they're still (maybe unwittingly) carrying over some of the structures of their mother tongue into their English-speaking.
Which is how ebonics arose in the first place, maybe?
And "broken English" might be a better classification. Though not as polite.
But still.
Perhaps some non-native speakers of English are getting classified as ebonics speakers because they're still (maybe unwittingly) carrying over some of the structures of their mother tongue into their English-speaking.
Which is how ebonics arose in the first place, maybe?
And "broken English" might be a better classification. Though not as polite.
I think, the problem is that non-native speakers without extensive contact to native speakers lack any identifiable regionalisms. This results in there score being somewhere in the middle of all these dialects and for some reason just a bit closer to Ebonics than to all the others. So it is a bad match to Ebonics but an even worse match to anything else.
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Welsh (UK)
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese
I'm curious how they distinguish between Kiwi (which I'm not, in any way) and Australian on the basis of that quiz. I can't really think of a more Kiwi answer I might have given. Clearly the "she'll be right" and "studying" but not "reading" are the cues for Antipodeans, though.
1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Welsh (UK)
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese
I'm curious how they distinguish between Kiwi (which I'm not, in any way) and Australian on the basis of that quiz. I can't really think of a more Kiwi answer I might have given. Clearly the "she'll be right" and "studying" but not "reading" are the cues for Antipodeans, though.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. American (Standard)
3. South African
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Dutch
2. English
3. German
My English is an eclectic mix of New England, Canadian Maritimes, Quebec English, Ontarian English, New York, Texan and BBC English, so it's fair that they'd have a hard time placing it.
But Dutch/English/Germany for my native first language? Loooool.
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. American (Standard)
3. South African
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Dutch
2. English
3. German
My English is an eclectic mix of New England, Canadian Maritimes, Quebec English, Ontarian English, New York, Texan and BBC English, so it's fair that they'd have a hard time placing it.
But Dutch/English/Germany for my native first language? Loooool.
bernie14
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Our top three guesses for your native (first)language:
1. Norwegian
2. Swedish
3. Dutch
.....it's Spanish
1. Norwegian
2. Swedish
3. Dutch
.....it's Spanish
Well...for the native language...exactly the order I learnt the languages in, pretty good.
For my English dialect...oh my god.
But quick check: All other 3 Germans (Gigaz, Valessa, GoodSarmatian) also good Ebonics as native accent. Not sure what this tells about our school Englisch in Germany o_O.
Getting Ebonics as your English dialect seems to be a better indicator for German English than the guesses for the native language. I would love to see the classifier for this to see why it thinks German English classes are all taught by African-Americans.
1. Sorry, but i've to break the streak here:
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
2. I believe uppi's suggestion in post No. 64 is correct.1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
Case in point: I would never write "learnt", as J did.
(Because i'm supremely weird and i pronounce staff Californian and craft English).
So the test sees J do something like that and panics: "Omg, test subject did the Unamerican thing, and i have no actual clue, cause i'm a very suck test. So, let's go with Ebonics, cause that's European-ish ...ish, right?"
Or something like that... *shrug*
We don't.
Because it's, like, hideous and has to die.
I did a bit of googling to find out what Ebonics is supposed to look like. According to this site it's somewhat similar to French (considering the use of double negatives). To me, it just mostly sounds like gibberish.
So this idiotic algorithm of theirs probably thinks that French and Ebonics are basically identical, but it doesn't guess French for anyone claiming to be from a province other than Quebec.
I'm trying to remember how old I was when I first saw a black person... (not to be confused with people from India)... I think I was 10 or so - a new girl in school, who was only there for a few weeks before transferring again. There are more black people here now (now meaning the last 20 years or so), but most of them are recent immigrants or refugees. Those in my building usually speak French, so I assume they're probably from Haiti.
Zack
99% hot gas
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
I don't really know anything about Singaporean English or what it sounds like.
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
I don't really know anything about Singaporean English or what it sounds like.
Also a general disinterest in whether collective nouns take the single or plural verb form (the government is/are)
"I'm sorry ma'am, but your son has...Mandarin Chinese. We caught it in time though so it is treatable."
There are a lot of people who use "whilst" online. Just take a look at any fanfic story for a popular show. I can always spot the authors from the UK.
It's not so easy to pin down the Canadian ones, though. Some of us are meticulous about the "u" in "labour" and others aren't. I never use "labour". But you'll have noticed that I always use "theatre" instead of "theater." It makes my spell checker have conniption fits.
HERETIC!
I think Borachio's guess goes more in the right direction.
For the first questions I had problems figuring out which way around it was meant.
Because in German, both can be the case, and I know from other occurences that I wrongly transfer German grammar into English.
So I guess I scored high on the "broken English" part in these questions.
OMG
I use it irregularly
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