No Longer the World's Slowest Blog: My Linguistic Profile...

Saturday, April 23, 2005

My Linguistic Profile...

45% Yankee

35% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I'm not sure how 5% Dixie crept into my speech as I've never lived further south than southern Ohio... The rest of it makes sense.

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No Longer the World's Slowest Blog
Blogging in the 'burgh Since 2002

Listen to your own voice, learn to be your own judge...You are responsible to no one, except the truth.
David Chesky, The Agnostic

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis (Channeling W. Bush, Palin, Huckabee and Romney, decades early)

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin

This is a time for reason to find its voice
Teresa Heinz Kerry, 2005

(The US government acts) as if there's no middle ground between killing everyone in sight and running away. There's a middle ground as wide as the Middle East, but to inhabit it requires attributes our leaders don't have -- intelligence, humility, foresight. Knowledge of the past and vision for the future.
Joe Haldeman, 2006

Living with offense is the price we have to pay for living in a free and diverse society. Being offended is not the same as being oppressed.
Irshad Manji

As I read Biblical principles, marriage was intended, ordained and started by God
State Senator Nancy Jacobs (Republican, of course, during a hearing on an anti-gay marriage bill hearing in Maryland)

People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
Jamie Raskin (in response; attendees are reported to have cheered Mr. Raskin), 2006

This administration reacts to anyone who questions this illegal program by saying that those of us who demand the truth and stand up for our rights and freedoms somehow has a pre-9/11 world view. In fact, the President has a pre-1776 world view. Our government has three branches, not one. And no one, not even the President, is above the law.
Senator Russell Feingold, 2005