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the nyt proposal is a weird way to divide up the midwest compared to a dialect map. http://aschmann.net/AmEng/index_collection/AmericanEnglishDialects.png http
by basch 11y ago
the nyt proposal is a weird way to divide up the midwest compared to a dialect map.
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/index_collection/AmericanEnglishDialects.png http://aschmann.net/AmEng/index_collection/AmericanEnglishDi...
http://cascade.uoregon.edu/fall2011/humanities/west-coast-speech/ http://cascade.uoregon.edu/fall2011/humanities/west-coast-sp...
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoDialect maps dont necessarily have anything to do with how people live the lives culturally and politically. Seems like a poor option.
- basch 11y agosure, I wasnt proposing dialect maps as the divider, just that the nyt midwest divide seemed arbitrary.
- Govannon 11y agoI think putting San Diego in a different group than Los Angeles was also rather odd... Edit: now that I look at it, I would also question their "Urban Corridor" from Los Angeles to Las Vegas... unless they mean people travel between them easily. That corridor is mostly desert.
- umanwizard 11y agoThe data in that first map doesn't match my experience at all. I grew up in Phoenix, and have never met anyone from there who has the pin/pen merger.
- jessaustin 11y agoThat first map, at least, is fairly inaccurate anyway. I've been to central Pennsylvania. They don't speak anything like the people here in southern Missouri. I mean, their speech is recognizable as English, but one couldn't say more than that.