"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Fodderwing
Thanks Dwight, unfortunately its flat terrain around here. Boss has 2 horses, she's bringing in her outside only Dalmatian, that's probably going to be a handful for them. He's young still and excitable and big. Best I can do short of leaving is move my mattress to the other end of the house away from the end near the trees. I already know I'm not sleeping tomorrow night, I'm scared to stay, but know due to the flooding we had after Mathew it'd be weeks b4 I could get back home, I simply can't afford that either. Because we assess homes for the mortgage company we work for, for repairs anyways, as soon as we secure our own homes( my boss has 4 rentals next to me) we have to start getting to as many of the mortgage company houses to asses damages, and start on repair estimates, and see which need immediate attention. Not to mention just plain helping neighbors caus its the right thing to do.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Will add your aunt to my prayers @Wurrwulf , hard times indeed, to face such a loss, then such weather to follow. My heart goes out to her and your family

 

[Fodderwing]

Misplaced Hillbilly
Hope and pray for the best but above everything else you should try to have decent boat equipped with essentials. It could come down to it.

 

[veitsi_poika]

I'm going to re-post something here that I posted last July, and I'll copy-and-paste it rather than quote it so it doesn't get quote-compressed. I seem to remember it sparked some interesting conversation with regards to regional dialect and vocabulary, and it seems applicable to the discussion currently taking place... but mostly I just think the quiz and the resulting map are fun. If you weren't here back when I first posted this, you should at least take the quiz and see how accurate your results are.

We have a bingo...

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Fodderwing Well I say its flat but according to my boss its never flooded here, all around but not where we are exactly. Its technically high ground, flat land to a mountain boy like me tho. During Mathew flash flooding washed out roads all over, in fact some places are still not properly fixed, just patched over. A lot of local ponds burst, the one a mile from me they never bothered to repair the dam and the state dirt road beside it has never been repaired you can come in from either end as it used to loop back to the 2 lane, but now where the pond was the creek flows across the road been that way since Mathew in Oct 2016, the rivers won't break banks until about a week after when the nuese river crested and flooded Kinston nc it was warm and sun shining like no storm ever had been there. Some places still haven't recovered from that one. Due to washed out roads it took us almost 2 weeks to get to Kinston, and then like 30 miles in a round about way, normally I can drive there in 15 min

 

[veitsi_poika]

I find it funny that this quiz always puts me in California, even though Alaska is dark red. But then again, I did spend a lot of time in California as a kid (not nearly as much as Alaska and Oregon), so I guess some California rubbed off.
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You're literally "all over the map"

 

[black mamba]

Dannyp, I had a couple that were beet red right over Missouri, but can't remember which they were.

 

[dannyp]

I did too, but at the end it tells you which question is related the most with each of the 3 cities.

 

[dannyp]

I just took it again and got the same cot/caught question as the most distinctive for St Louis. I also noticed above the map you can switch from most similar to least similar cities. The least similar were Springfield MA, Jersey City, and Pittsburgh.

 

[veitsi_poika]

Ha ha! My map came out nearly all dark blue as I relate to an extinct British English Tomato/Tomayto But there were some things I've never heard of, drive in liquor store?? Surely not, pulling my leg I could use it though, kind of Mobile Offy I got some matches in N.York and Yonkers comes from reading Arthur Miller thought Sopranos might have an influence but no. I like old Pathe newsreels for extinct British Accents (Exsunts) and also posh American N.England ones, were people more DEAF then?? They're all delivered in this roaring stentorian voice wherever they come from, Finnish and Swedish stuff is the same Must've been the microphones I suppose....aluminium/aloominum?

I have seen drive thru liquor stores with my own eyes... Columbus, Ohio is loaded with them I didn't know they had a specific name though Apparently "kitty-corner", "pop" and "been" pronounced "ben" throws me right into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan / Northern Wisconsin where I belong

 

[Henry Beige]

Henry Beige , I know we have quite a few knives in common , but the results of this quiz for you are scary to me. The quiz placed me in Grand Rapids, MI, where I've lived for at least 40 of my almost 67 years, and the first 17 years of my life were 30 miles south of Grand Rapids. But it also named the Twin Cities as another likely spot, along with Rockford IL! I tried the quiz a second time, changing a couple of responses to questions I was uncertain how to answer, and was placed in Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Aurora, IL. So, in addition to common knives, we apparently have idioms/dialects in common!


- GT

Actually, your observation comes as no surprise. In linguistic terms, we are from the same part of the world. The version of American English we speak in the Upper Midwest (MN, MI, WI, ND, SD and northern Illinois) is considered Standard American English, the brand favored by the talking heads of the national TV networks. We don’t have an accent here, unlike just about everywhere else.

Of course, that judgment is based primarily on pronunciation. The quiz gives some deference to pronunciation, but focuses more on usage. Still, it makes me a little uneasy, too. Brutha from anotha mutha?

 

[1066vik]

my cities were stockton, ca; jacksonville, fla; and aurora co.
my map was almost all shades of red.

 

[btb01]

We don’t have an accent here...

If you say so.

 

[Jack Black]

Misplaced Hillbilly - Hope you and your friends and neighbours are going to be safe, same to our other members likely to be affected

 

[screened porch]

Finally took the quiz. It has me bracketed between Aurora and Toledo, with my reddest smear reaching back into NY state. I told you guys about my horrifying kindergarten experience that made me distrustful of surrounding pronunciations.

Good luck to all those awaiting Florrie. Nice to have time to fort up, tough to have so long to wait.

 

[r redden]

I couldn't remember the results I had last time with Barrett's location test so I took it again. The map placed me in Alabama specifically Birmingham, Montgomery or Mobile. Now I've been to Birmingham and Mobile before but just to visit. I have lived just a little NW of Asheville NC about 25 miles from the TN state line all of my life.

 

[r8shell]

I wonder if that quiz would be more accurate if it took age into account. There are words and expressions that I hear my parents use, and I used when I was younger, but don't hear much anymore. It could be because of moving to a different region of the country, but could also be because of evolution in language. As an experiment, I took the quiz again, based on how my mother talks, and it put her right back in Pittsburgh!

 

[veitsi_poika]

I wonder if that quiz would be more accurate if it took age into account.

I reckon

 

[Modoc ED]

My cities were Augusta-Richmond, GA; Jackson, MS; and Brownsville, TX. Kinda makes sense as I lived in Atlanta, GA during my grammar school years and the first year of high school. I know I sometimes have the remains of a Southern drawl so Augusta-Richmond and Jackson make sense but Brownsville, TX is sort of a ringer. I've never been there as far as I know.

You guys.gals riding out the Hurricae keep your head down. Went through one once in FL just South of Miami and went through a Typhoon in both Hakata,Japan and Olongapo (Subic Bay,) Philippines.

 

[5K Qs]

Actually, your observation comes as no surprise. In linguistic terms, we are from the same part of the world. The version of American English we speak in the Upper Midwest (MN, MI, WI, ND, SD and northern Illinois) is considered Standard American English, the brand favored by the talking heads of the national TV networks. We don’t have an accent here, unlike just about everywhere else.

Of course, that judgment is based primarily on pronunciation. The quiz gives some deference to pronunciation, but focuses more on usage. Still, it makes me a little uneasy, too. Brutha from anotha mutha?

If you say so.

My daughter just moved to Minneapolis, and she thinks there's definitely a MN accent. (Her impression of a MN accent sounds just like her impression of a Canadian accent, though.)

Barrett, when I saw your quiz map, I noticed that Minnesota was a chilly blue region for you, language-wise. Are you adapting OK? Can you and the natives communicate?

(I remember years ago traveling to Florida one spring break as an "assistant coach" to my friend who coached The Purdue women's softball team. We drove all night and stopped for breakfast at a McDonald's somewhere in Georgia, and the girl at the counter and I had some significant challenges understanding each other's accents! )

- GT