http://jmc-bks.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] jmc-bks.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jmc_bks 2006-05-23 04:57 pm (UTC)

On TV or in movies maybe ;)

I had a linguistics prof who specialized in regional dialects. He could tell within 50-100 miles where most Americans were from, even people who didn't sound like they had "accents." Which was amazing to me, since half the time I couldn't hear a distinction, especially for people from the midwest....unless they were from the upper midwest, like the Dakotas or Minnesota.

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