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Mr. Pedantic

Diamond Member
Feb 14, 2010
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English (Welsh)
New Zealandish
English (England)

English
Chinese
Swedish

Not bad. New Zealandish and English (also speak Chinese).
 

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Lifer
May 30, 2008
13,283
8,201
136
This.

Although I will temper it a bit by saying I could see how some of the bizarre answers might work. For example, saying "He's been in hospital" is common in Eastern Europe. Some of the sentence constructions make sense as literal translations from other languages with much different grammatical constructions.

What?

"He's been in hospital" is correct English. What do Americans say then?

For a lot of those it was very clear that the ones that weren't 'correct' English were really just either American or 'Ebonics'. We all know how Americans mangle the language!

Granted there were some questions that must relate to dialects I've never encountered, or that are from people importing the grammar of their non-English first language. But for most of them, the ones that sounded 'wrong' were just obviously 'American' rather than English.



Edit...Ah, so Americans put a definite article in there (to me that makes it sound as if there's only one hospital - "I was in _the_ hospital").

A web page somewhere says

"A few 'institutional' nouns take no definite article when a certain role is implied: for example, at sea (as a sailor), in prison (as a convict), and at/in college (for students). Among this group, BrE has in hospital (as a patient) and at university (as a student), where AmE requires in the hospital and at the university (though AmE does allow at college and in school). When the implied roles of patient or student do not apply, the definite article is used in both dialects."

...which I guess explains it. No dialect or language really makes complete logical sense, its mostly just about arbitrary conventions really.
 
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Gerle

Senior member
Aug 9, 2009
593
8
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Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Swedish
3. Norwegian

I grew up in Sweden, now I work with many Southerners so I guess it makes sense.
 

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
23,324
219
106
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. Australian
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese
 

Azraele

Elite Member
Nov 5, 2000
16,524
29
91
Our top three guesses for your English dialect
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics -

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
 

Orignal Earl

Diamond Member
Oct 27, 2005
8,059
55
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It nailed me perfectly.

It also made me realize that a lot of Newfies would always have the grammar police shitting on him here, and he would be like * Sweet Geezus, you guys..typin perfect I am*
 

biostud

Lifer
Feb 27, 2003
18,403
4,966
136
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Norwegian
2. English
3. German

So pretty close.
 

Xed

Golden Member
Nov 15, 2003
1,453
0
71
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Dutch
3. Swedish
 

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Lifer
Jul 21, 2005
12,060
4
81
I think we broke the site....loading very slowly if at all.
 

hzl eyed grl

Super Moderator<br>Elite Member
Dec 28, 1999
13,107
64
91
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
 

alzan

Diamond Member
May 21, 2003
3,860
2
0
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. Canadian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Swedish
3. Norwegian

Correct on both counts
 

KidNiki1

Platinum Member
Oct 15, 2010
2,887
126
116
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. South African
3. Singaporean


Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

pretty cool!
 

jiggyest

Member
Feb 28, 2008
103
0
76
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Norwegian
2. Swedish
3. English
 

Newell Steamer

Diamond Member
Jan 27, 2014
6,894
8
0
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch
 

BlitzPuppet

Platinum Member
Feb 4, 2012
2,460
7
81
1. Singaporean
2. Welsh (UK)
3. American Standard

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Norwegian
2. English
3. Chinese

lol at those who had ebonics on their list
 
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DrPizza

Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Mar 5, 2001
49,606
166
111
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Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch

I received similar results & found it somewhat insulting that Ebonics made the list. If you pulled out a grammar book that was widely used in US high schools, I'm fairly certain my grammar was flawless (according to that grammar book.)
 

Newell Steamer

Diamond Member
Jan 27, 2014
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I received similar results & found it somewhat insulting that Ebonics made the list. If you pulled out a grammar book that was widely used in US high schools, I'm fairly certain my grammar was flawless (according to that grammar book.)

I think this is the key here;
Our top three guesses

These are guesses. So, they threw in an outlier, just to be safe. Or, I think they lumped in Ebonics with American standard frankly. Or, they have no idea what Ebonics is,... because I don't think anyone really does. Is Ebonics modern Jive?? I don't know/care.

Either way, the #1 guess was correct.
 
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