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Re:Which English? by yen223 on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:00PM (#7843798)
I got Ebonics. This quiz is whack.
Re:Which English? by iamthepieman on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:19PM (#7843856)
Ah see what you did dere.

For english dialect I got:

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

and for native language I got:

1. Swedish 2. Norwegian 3. English

I'm 100% native English

Re:Which English? by NAFV_P on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @02:59AM (#7844341)
> I'm 100% native English

Same here regarding habitat (Gloucester), my results were:

Dialect: 0. English 1. Welsh 2. South African

Native: 0. English 1. Finnish 2. Romanian

But my mother is Welsh, and I lived in Cardiff for three years. I'd say that is fairly accurate.

Re:Which English? by lone-star on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:41PM (#7843920)
Same

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

This is really off! My english is a mix between various London accents. However, since I often hang out with foreigners, I may be more acceptant of sentences with weird grammar. That would explain the Ebonics.

native language 1. Italian 2. Chinese 3. Dutch

Although I hangout with Chinese people, I don't speak any of those languages. Plus, it would be good for a language study test to differentiate Cantonese, Mandarin...

Re:Which English? by gameswithwords on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:52PM (#7843946)
The model doesn't do a good job of telling apart the various Chinese languages (yet), so we aren't including that distinction in the feedback (yet).
Re:Which English? by lone-star on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:57PM (#7843951)
I just took the test a second time, and I'm getting the exact same results, appart from my native languages which changed to: 1. Italian 2. Dutch 3. English

Well, that must be it.

Re:Which English? by quarterwave on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @12:48AM (#7844090)
Good point: "I may be more acceptant of sentences with weird grammar."
Re:Which English? by jerf on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:24PM (#7843866)
I got 1. Singaporean English 2. US Black Vernacular/Ebonics 3. American English (standard). My dialect is standard Midwestern. (Or if you want to get really technical [1], Inland North.)

[1]: http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

Re:Which English? by zefei on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:39PM (#7843912)
It seems that the distance between American English and AAVE is very small, which is natural I guess.

I got 1. Ebonics 2. New Zealand 3. English (England) for dialect and 1. Turkish 2. German 3. Finnish for native language. I'm native Chinese currently living in California.

Re:Which English? by gameswithwords on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:50PM (#7843942)
That's right. In our data, Standard American, Canadian, & AAVE are all pretty similar. Partly that's a function of the questions we ask. But partly that's because there's a clear divide between the north american dialects and the UK-based ones.
Re:Which English? by psychometry on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:19PM (#7843858)
Wait, does it actually say "Ebonics" instead of "AAVE" or something like that? No linguist uses that word.
Re:Which English? by bittermang on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:26PM (#7843871)
"US Black Vernacular / Ebonics" is the exact phrase used.

Which I also received.

Re:Which English? by splintercell on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:26PM (#7843872)
Same here, though I am an immigrant(been living in NYC), nobody has ever told me that I speak Ebonics.
Re:Which English? by bane on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:35PM (#7843899)
A surprising number of immigrant groups pick up elements of Ebonics in their English dialects. In my area non-Black groups with notable dialectal markers typical of Ebonics seem to include Vietnamese, Koreans, Salvadorians and various Arab groups (not as common).
Re:Which English? by justin_ on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:14PM (#7843843)
Same. What up with that?
Re:Which English? by automatthew on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @12:12AM (#7843991)
Millenials can typing?