Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-25 Thread Paul Brandon
s getting married. One myth I >> have heard is that any marriage that takes place under such weather >> conditions will be problematic. >> >> Miguel >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message - >> From: "Carol DeVolder" >> To: &qu

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-25 Thread Christopher Green
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 6:50:08 PM > Subject: Re: [tips] Language and Dialect > > I was Aurora, Rockford, or Toledo. Squarely in the Midwest, where I was > born and raised. > > >> On Tue, D

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-25 Thread MiguelRoig
er such weather conditions will be problematic. Miguel - Original Message - From: "Carol DeVolder" To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 6:50:08 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Language and Dialect I was Aurora, Rockford,

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-24 Thread Paul Brandon
Weird! (or maybe weeuhd). Everyone from Noo Yawk knows that people north of Greenwich, CT tawk fuhnny. On Dec 24, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Ken Steele wrote: > On 12/24/2013 1:15 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: >> I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems >> experienced on the ACA site.

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-24 Thread Carol DeVolder
I was Aurora, Rockford, or Toledo. Squarely in the Midwest, where I was born and raised. On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ken Steele wrote: > On 12/24/2013 1:15 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: > >> I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems >> experienced on the ACA site. :-) >>

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-24 Thread Ken Steele
On 12/24/2013 1:15 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems experienced on the ACA site. :-) I also adopted Jeff's strategy of selecting responses based on choices I would have made growing up rather than usages I know about based on where I now

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-24 Thread Claudia Stanny
I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems experienced on the ACA site. :-) I also adopted Jeff's strategy of selecting responses based on choices I would have made growing up rather than usages I know about based on where I now live. I could probably manipulate choices to lo

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-23 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
On Dec 23, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Annette Taylor wrote: > My map put me right where I belongeither Chicago or Rockford or > Aurora--all within a few miles of each other. My kids laugh at me when I talk > about the "mare" of San Diego and his problems but i grew up under the reign > of Mare Dal

Re:[tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-23 Thread Annette Taylor
My map put me right where I belongeither Chicago or Rockford or Aurora--all within a few miles of each other. My kids laugh at me when I talk about the "mare" of San Diego and his problems but i grew up under the reign of Mare Daley (as in 5 by 5). Every time I told my kids to see a conslr

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-22 Thread Paul Brandon
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 > upst

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-22 Thread Paul Brandon
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? >

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-22 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
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 year

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-22 Thread Claudia Stanny
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 _ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor NSF UWF Facul

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-22 Thread Mike Palij
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 r

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-22 Thread Paul Brandon
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 -- bas