Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 60% General American English |
| 20% Upper Midwestern |
| 15% Yankee |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 0% Dixie |
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
but none of the questions asked about "wash" vs. "warsh" or "crick" vs. "creek." I was disappointed. Ah well, at least it's accurate (if indeed there is a difference between Upper Midwestern and Midwestern). I got this from Crazy Aunt Purl.
This weekend, the Beloved and I revealed some last secrets to each other (a neat trick, having been together for eight-and-a-half years already). He learned that, given time enough and yarn, I will sit on the couch and do nothing but knit for nearly three days straight (Yarn Geek). I learned that he has a whole crapload of Magic:The Gathering cards I didn't know about in various configurations (he calls them "decks") which involve spell-casting cards, creature cards, colors, freaky monster-beasts and a super-high level of geekdom (Magic:TG Geek). We revealed these truths, felt shaky and vulnerable afterwards, but love each other even more now that we know our true geek natures. It's sweet. And slightly nauseating, yes.
Right. I was going to upload pictures of knitting and crochet and the Noble Sit-n-Stitch, but either Blogger or my computer is being a wingnut of the highest order and is determined to eat my brain (zombie computers on Halloween... naturally!). I cannot post pictures right now. Please forgive the lack of illustration, but note my Geek status--Yarn, not Tech or Computer or Useful and Optimized for Gainful Employment Geek-dom.
My family weeps along with you.
This weekend, the Beloved and I revealed some last secrets to each other (a neat trick, having been together for eight-and-a-half years already). He learned that, given time enough and yarn, I will sit on the couch and do nothing but knit for nearly three days straight (Yarn Geek). I learned that he has a whole crapload of Magic:The Gathering cards I didn't know about in various configurations (he calls them "decks") which involve spell-casting cards, creature cards, colors, freaky monster-beasts and a super-high level of geekdom (Magic:TG Geek). We revealed these truths, felt shaky and vulnerable afterwards, but love each other even more now that we know our true geek natures. It's sweet. And slightly nauseating, yes.
Right. I was going to upload pictures of knitting and crochet and the Noble Sit-n-Stitch, but either Blogger or my computer is being a wingnut of the highest order and is determined to eat my brain (zombie computers on Halloween... naturally!). I cannot post pictures right now. Please forgive the lack of illustration, but note my Geek status--Yarn, not Tech or Computer or Useful and Optimized for Gainful Employment Geek-dom.
My family weeps along with you.
3 comments:
Glad to know I'm not the only grammar nazi out there. I have been known to tell proprietors of restaurants and shops that there are errors in their signage/menus. Seriously, I should travel with a red Sharpie in my purse and live a life of the Superheroine, correcting grammar and spelling the world over!
Your link to the quiz doesn't work.
Right. Thank you, Laura. (There is no bullshit with my sister) I have fixed both the link to the quiz and to the source.
Remember: Yarn Geek, not Computer Geek.
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