The NY Times has an interactive quiz that uses different language/dialect
examples to locate where you, dear reader, are geographically more
similar or most dissimilate to -- based on the database of response that
they have collected. See:
Because hardly anyone outside of Williamsburg says that any more?
On Dec 22, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Mike Palij wrote:
The NY Times has an interactive quiz that uses different language/dialect
examples to locate where you, dear reader, are geographically more
similar or most dissimilate to -- based
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:39:42 -0800, Paul Brandon wrote:
Because hardly anyone outside of Williamsburg says that any more?
Really? Who knew that Virginia had such a large Yiddish speaking population!?!
I believe that when most people hear of Williamsburg they think of
a place in Virginia, as
I must have lived in too many places . . . it won't show maps for me.
Does that mean I now have a mutt dialect?
:-)
Claudia
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Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D.
Director
Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Associate Professor
NSF UWF
On Dec 22, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Claudia Stanny wrote:
I must have lived in too many places . . . it won't show maps for me.
Does that mean I now have a mutt dialect?
I spent the first half of my childhood on Long Island, and the second half just
outside of Chicago. After that, I spent 10 years
Kiryas Joel would have been better in terms of Yiddish speakers, but it's
upstate (see Bruce, Lenny on who is Jewish).
On Dec 22, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Mike Palij wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:39:42 -0800, Paul Brandon wrote:
Because hardly anyone outside of Williamsburg says that any more?
And, the NYT quiz puts me in Yonkers, NY, which is about halfway between the
Bronx where I lived until I was ten, and the town in Westchester where we then
moved.
On Dec 22, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
Kiryas Joel would have been better in terms of Yiddish speakers, but it's
