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Offline Badwrench

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Dialect test
« on: Tue, 24 December 2013, 09:45:18 »
A recent dialect test from the NY times.  Fun to do even if you are not from the US.  I scored exactly where I live (heavily red in the so. cal. region and blue/yellow everywhere else), but my wife scored upper US on the west, even though she is born and raised in San Diego. 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
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Quote from: demik on Mon, 08 June 2015, 22:00:41
wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Dialect test
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 24 December 2013, 09:47:43 »
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(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
-Ray Bradbury

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Re: Dialect test
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Quote from: demik on Mon, 08 June 2015, 22:00:41
wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Dialect test
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 24 December 2013, 10:01:06 »
Huehuehue funny how things get around.
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Quote from: SpAmRaY on Tue, 24 December 2013, 10:01:06
Huehuehue funny how things get around.

They seem to get almost everywhere except the GH search function ;)
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