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Worked very well for me, correctly guessing my dialect which is spoken by relatively few people (not one of the 'standard' ones). I definitely found this surpri
by Osmium 12y ago
Worked very well for me, correctly guessing my dialect which is spoken by relatively few people (not one of the 'standard' ones). I definitely found this surprising, especially considering I haven't lived in my home country for the better part of a decade. Very cool.
- vacri 12y agoI'm from Australia. It thought I was Welsh. Apart from a strong sheep segment in the economy and being considered second-class by the English (and who isn't?), there's not much in common between the two countries... :)
- Osmium 12y agoPossibly because Welsh English is quite close to Australian English according to this blog post: http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/the-english-grammars-of-world.html http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/the-english...
- vacri 12y agoInteresting visualisation, but if I'm reading it correctly, a smaller number means more similar, and the number for Australian->Welsh is the third highest number for the Australian dialect, suggesting that they're more dissimilar than others. Hrm, that's if you mouseover Australian. If you mouseover Welsh, Welsh->Australian is indeed the lowest number of the list. So, according to these numbers, Welsh is most like Australian, but Australian is least(ish) close to Welsh. Weird.
- petecox 12y agoPerhaps the Welsh emigrated here more prevalently than anywhere else (excluding the Welsh-speaking enclave of Patagonia!) Anyhow, its guesses: Nationalities: 1 Aus 2 NZ 3 Welsh Native Language: 1 English 2 Dutch 3 Swedish I'm not sure where the germanic influence is supposed to have come from. The only foreign languages I've studied have been Latin, French and Spanish.