That American English thing
Apr. 14th, 2005 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaFrom here:
75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
...huh. That's interesting.
With me, it's hard to say where exactly I'm from. I was born in Germany (I'm an army brat) and spent the first ten years of my life on army bases -- in Germany, then in Fort Ord, California, then in Germany again. I was around English-speaking people that whole time, since I was on the base, but there were probably several regional dialects there; people were stationed from all over. Before I was two, we lived on the economy, so my English exposure was almost entirely through my parents (my mother a third-generation Californian, my father from Washington D.C.). Then we spent ten years in Idaho, followed by my four years out in LA for college.
I'm not sure what this all means, but it doesn't surprise me too much that my idiolect derives mainly from the 'standard' West Coast/broadcast dialect.
75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
...huh. That's interesting.
With me, it's hard to say where exactly I'm from. I was born in Germany (I'm an army brat) and spent the first ten years of my life on army bases -- in Germany, then in Fort Ord, California, then in Germany again. I was around English-speaking people that whole time, since I was on the base, but there were probably several regional dialects there; people were stationed from all over. Before I was two, we lived on the economy, so my English exposure was almost entirely through my parents (my mother a third-generation Californian, my father from Washington D.C.). Then we spent ten years in Idaho, followed by my four years out in LA for college.
I'm not sure what this all means, but it doesn't surprise me too much that my idiolect derives mainly from the 'standard' West Coast/broadcast dialect.
