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Re: Which English

Postby DaveBee » Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:02 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:Hmm...

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Singaporean
3. Australian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. German
2. Italian
3. Dutch
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Re: Which English

Postby smallwhite » Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:41 am

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. Italian
3. German

I've lived in Hong Kong (British English), Australia and New Zealand. I'm happy with these results :P
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Re: Which English

Postby languist » Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:59 am

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. Finnish
3. German

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They were quite close, but as I see in someone else's results that "North Irish (UK)"* is an option, they didn't quite get it right. Overall, though, it seems like a fairly accurate algorithm.

*(although it's so strange to see it not written as "Northern Irish" - I would consider "North Irish" to be something different.)
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Re: Which English

Postby rlnv » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:08 am

Top two guesses for dialect are accurate. I'm surprised about guesses 2 and 3 for first language.


Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. Australian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish
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Re: Which English

Postby Xenops » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:13 am

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. Australian
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Chinese
3. Norwegian

I find the secondary and tertiary results kind of strange. Is the rough English of my Chinese roommate affecting me that much?
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Re: Which English

Postby smallwhite » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:31 am

There has to be something there in the 2nd and 3rd places even if the algorithm is 99.9999% sure that you're a native English speaker.

Since the algorithm is based on user responses, I'd interpret the results in the 2nd and 3rd places as:

Xenops (American)
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Norwegian

as "Chinese and Norwegian learners of English tend to learn American English".

DaveBee (British)
1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Swedish

as "Hungarian and Swedish learners of English tend to learn British English".
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Re: Which English

Postby Dylan95 » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:52 am

Top 3 guesses for my English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. South African

Top 3 guesses for my native language:

1. English
2. Greek
3. Chinese

I am American, so this makes sense.
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Re: Which English

Postby Adrianslont » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:26 am

I got
1 New Zealandish
2 Australian
3 Welsh

I have lived in Australia most of my life, have been to NZ for 4 days and used to holiday in Wales as a toddler evidently. I’m scratching my head about why it thinks I’m a kiwi - maybe that’s my mix of English and Australian dialect = kiwi?

And
1. English
2. Romanian
3. Swedish

Edit: my Australian born wife just did the quiz and she too got:

1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Welsh

And, unprompted by me, she suggested that New Zealandish may be considered a more formal Australian. And certainly she has an Educated Australian accent - as opposed to General or Broad.
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Re: Which English

Postby MacGyver » Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:46 am

I got;

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. Dutch
3. Norwegian

I am a New Zealander who lives in Australia... and my girlfriend is Malaysian-Chinese (The version of English she speaks is basically Singaporean), so the top 3 guesses seem very accurate!
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Re: Which English

Postby alexkelbo » Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:27 pm

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. South African
3. New Zealandish

Interesting ...

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. Dutch
2. English
3. Swedish

Close enough ... ;)
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