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English (Welsh)
New Zealandish
English (England)

English
Chinese
Swedish

Not bad. New Zealandish and English (also speak Chinese).
 
sactoking said:
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.
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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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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.
 
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
 
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
 
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*
 
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.
 
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
 
:biggrin:

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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
 
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
 
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!
 
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
 
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
 
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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Newell Steamer said:
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
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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.)
 
DrPizza said:
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.)
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I think this is the key here;
Our top three guesses
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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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