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I got Ebonics. This quiz is whack.

• justin_ 12y ago
  Same. What up with that?
  • automatthew 12y ago
    Millenials can typing?
• iamthepieman 12y ago
  Ah see what you did dere. For english dialect I got: 1. Singaporean 2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 3. American (Standard) and for native language I got: 1. Swedish 2. Norwegian 3. English I'm 100% native English
  • NAFV_P 12y ago
    > I'm 100% native English Same here regarding habitat (Gloucester), my results were: Dialect: 0. English 1. Welsh 2. South African Native: 0. English 1. Finnish 2. Romanian But my mother is Welsh, and I lived in Cardiff for three years. I'd say that is fairly accurate.
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• psychometry 12y ago
  Wait, does it actually say "Ebonics" instead of "AAVE" or something like that? No linguist uses that word.
  • bittermang 12y ago
    "US Black Vernacular / Ebonics" is the exact phrase used. Which I also received.
• jerf 12y ago
  I got 1. Singaporean English 2. US Black Vernacular/Ebonics 3. American English (standard). My dialect is standard Midwestern. (Or if you want to get really technical [1], Inland North.) [1]: http://aschmann.net/AmEng/ http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
• splintercell 12y ago
  Same here, though I am an immigrant(been living in NYC), nobody has ever told me that I speak Ebonics.
  • bane 12y ago
    A surprising number of immigrant groups pick up elements of Ebonics in their English dialects. In my area non-Black groups with notable dialectal markers typical of Ebonics seem to include Vietnamese, Koreans, Salvadorians and various Arab groups (not as common).
• zefei 12y ago
  It seems that the distance between American English and AAVE is very small, which is natural I guess. I got 1. Ebonics 2. New Zealand 3. English (England) for dialect and 1. Turkish 2. German 3. Finnish for native language. I'm native Chinese currently living in California.
  • gameswithwords 12y ago
    That's right. In our data, Standard American, Canadian, & AAVE are all pretty similar. Partly that's a function of the questions we ask. But partly that's because there's a clear divide between the north american dialects and the UK-based ones.
• lone-star 12y ago
  Same dialects 1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 2. Singaporean 3. American (Standard) This is really off! My english is a mix between various London accents. However, since I often hang out with foreigners, I may be more acceptant of sentences with weird grammar. That would explain the Ebonics. native language 1. Italian 2. Chinese 3. Dutch Although I hangout with Chinese people, I don't speak any of those languages. Plus, it would be good for a language study test to differentiate Cantonese, Mandarin...
  • gameswithwords 12y ago
    The model doesn't do a good job of telling apart the various Chinese languages (yet), so we aren't including that distinction in the feedback (yet).
    • lone-star 12y ago
      I just took the test a second time, and I'm getting the exact same results, appart from my native languages which changed to: 1. Italian 2. Dutch 3. English Well, that must be it.
  • quarterwave 12y ago
    Good point: "I may be more acceptant of sentences with weird grammar."