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Feb. 22nd, 2004 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonjust took the dialect-based Yankee or Dixie quiz, and turned up "81% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?". (Erm, yes, along with a couple who fought for the Union and one who hid out in the woods the whole time out of general stubbornness--perhaps not so surprising from a fellow known as "Cussing Gus"*. *g*)
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gwynn_aaron made a good point, in that the author really could offer more regional choices; given just the small sample of stated information on vocabulary distribution, the chosen division seems less than useful. Not that "useful" is necessarily the goal of a little quiz, but the possible results could easily have been made more interesting. I must also throw in a little griping about the sort of planning which results in a quiz that won't allow one to change an answer without resetting the whole thing.
* The man apparently made good use of curses he picked up on visits with German-speaking cousins in Pennsylvania, for an interesting bilingual effect.
gwynn_aaron made a good point, in that the author really could offer more regional choices; given just the small sample of stated information on vocabulary distribution, the chosen division seems less than useful. Not that "useful" is necessarily the goal of a little quiz, but the possible results could easily have been made more interesting. I must also throw in a little griping about the sort of planning which results in a quiz that won't allow one to change an answer without resetting the whole thing.* The man apparently made good use of curses he picked up on visits with German-speaking cousins in Pennsylvania, for an interesting bilingual effect.