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Week of June 24, 2007 - June 30, 2007

Language talk


So... what language(s) do you speak?  (Swear I'm not trying to pick you up.  Well okay, maybe *you*, but not the other people...)

If your mother tongue was English, what kind of English was it?  If you grew up in the US, maybe it was:

Cultural
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Appalachian English
General American
Hawaiian Pidgin English
Chicano English
Native American English (Amerindian English) (see also subtypes below)
Pennsylvania Dutchified English
Yinglish

Regional
Northeastern dialects
Baltimorese
Boston English
Northeast Pennsylvania English (Scranton, Pennsylvania-area)
Hudson Valley English (Albany, New York-area)
Maine-New Hampshire English
Philadelphia-area English
Pittsburgh English
Providence-area English
New York-New Jersey English
Nuyorican English
Vermont English

Mid-Atlantic dialects
Tidewater accent
Virginia Piedmont
Virginia Tidewater

Midwest
Inland North American (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)
North Central American English (includes Minnesota, North Dakota and some of South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa)
Yooper dialect (the variety of North Central American English spoken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in some neighboring areas)
North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)
St. Louis-area English
Wisconsin-Illinois dialect

Southern English
Appalachian English
Coastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)
Cajun English
Harkers Island English (North Carolina)
Southern Highland English
South Midlands English (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)
Tampanian English
Texan
Yat (New Orleans)

Western English
California English
Boontling
Hawaiian English (Hawaiian Pidgin)
Utah English
Pacific Northwest English 

Or something not on Wikipedia's list?

Do you speak more than one variety of English?  Speak other languages?  Mebbe you do a little code-switching, where you combine different languages and/or varieties of English?

Does the way you talk come through in how you write here?  Or is it completely different?

What languages would you like to learn?

Any random linguistic observations you feel like making?

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