English grammar quiz

[Olly From Wally World]

Why no black vernacular/ebonics? I am not sure how they determined that part from my answers but it was my second. I have a heavy influence from some of my friends. I have this ability to change my accent and dialect according to my environment. I don't do it on purpose, anymore. My sister and I would speak gibberish when we were in our teens when some guys tried to pick us up but it sounded good and over time she and I had created enough gibberish to understand each other. They would try to guess which country we were from.

As soon as I drove through South Carolina, on my recent trip, I started talking like a hick (no offense to people there. I know they don't all speak that way). My friend and I spoke hick to each other for 2 days, when we were alone of course.

Haha, while I don't typically talk Ebonics, it comes out more when talking to some friends or when in that environment, too.

[Joy]

Is this for real?

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. German
3. Finnish

Edited to add that English is my first and only language. I've learned some Spanish, Japanese, and French over the years but not enough to actually have conversations in those languages. Also, I wish more of the posters in this topic stated whether they're results were correct.

[Saberstorm]

meh

[Joy]

A lot of that test seemed pretty cut and dry, not something something that could be interpreted differently by region.

[Joy]

Haha, while I don't typically talk Ebonics, it comes out more when talking to some friends or when in that environment, too.

I'm exactly the opposite: I find that people who usually speak Ebonics will mostly stop when talking with me. I appreciate it.

[Joy]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Scottish (UK)
3. English (England)

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Scottish (UK)
3. English (England)

eh? I can only think that considering sentences without the necessary punctuation as legitimate has affected things, but I don't see how.

I think most of their "ebonics" questions focused on proper verb tenses.

[Olly From Wally World]

I'm exactly the opposite: I find that people who usually speak Ebonics will mostly stop when talking with me. I appreciate it.

What are you, an LSE boss? I find people usually change from Ebonics back to reg when they're talking to someone in a good position, haha.

Btw, your username is my mom's name.

[Joy]

What are you, an LSE boss? I find people usually change from Ebonics back to reg when they're talking to someone in a good position, haha.

Sometimes, but not always. Most of this happened while I was in a similar position and was just chatting with them. Maybe I just don't seem cool enough to understand them otherwise...

Btw, your username is my mom's name.

It's my actual name. (I am not the most creative person out there, lol.) I like it!

[HERO]

I couldn't take this test on my laptop computer, so my Mom let me take it on her Kobo Arc device or whatever.


Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

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

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish


English is my first and only language. My first boyfriend was American; I'm not, yet I did live in Florida for a few months when I was about four-years-old.

One of the European countries I might want to visit one day--besides Romania--is Norway.

[Amber]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:


1. English (England)
2. Australian
3. Singaporean

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

Italian Vietnamese Romanian


I might need a team of linguists and EU funds to discover exactly how they reached these results.




>>> 2nd time with some "less standard" answers:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:


1. Australian
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean



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

1. Romanian 2. Arabic 3. Swedish


lol is this just random

not sure if the're actually correlating the US Black vernacular with Arabic or not..





>>>> Take 3 :

this time I said I was a 25 year-old male and changed 1-2 choices (actually I was more permissive when they asked me to select "all grammatical" answers)

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

New Zealandish
Singaporean
US Black Vernacular / Ebonics


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

Finnish
Romanian
Vietnamese

[Beautiful sky]

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. Norwegian
3. Chinese - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichE....XtiBNRxt.dpuf

[The Exception]

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. Chinese
3. Norwegian

I have lived in the United States all of my life.