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I got Ebonics. This quiz is whack.

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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

> 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.

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...

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).

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.

Good point: "I may be more acceptant of sentences with weird grammar."

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/

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.

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.

Wait, does it actually say "Ebonics" instead of "AAVE" or something like that? No linguist uses that word.

"US Black Vernacular / Ebonics" is the exact phrase used.

Which I also received.

Same here, though I am an immigrant(been living in NYC), nobody has ever told me that I speak Ebonics.

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).

Same. What up with that?

Millenials can typing?

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