{"id":435,"date":"2013-08-29T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/?p=435"},"modified":"2013-08-30T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:10:54","slug":"language-runs-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/29\/language-runs-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Language runs deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spark.rstudio.com\/jkatz\/DialectQuiz\/\">This quiz<\/a>, designed to estimate overlap between your speech and the dialects common to other areas of the country, showed up in IRC a couple days ago. I had to wait a while before I could actually get it to load (keep refreshing and try later if it keeps saying the server is overloaded), but I&#8217;m glad I persisted. <\/p>\n            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-one-offs\/clipboard011.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-one-offs\/clipboard011.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-one-offs\/thumbs\/thumbs_clipboard011.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"660\"\n             data-title=\"clipboard011\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_504739656ed6ef1e30ee741230f58061\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-one-offs\/cache\/clipboard011.jpg-nggid03660-ngg0dyn-0x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"clipboard011\"\n             title=\"clipboard011\"\n                           \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        \n<p>The results are neat, the heatmap overlaps nicely with where my parents and extended family are all from. I&#8217;m a bit surprised at how strong the association is, given I&#8217;ve never myself lived in the Midwest and certainly have had considerable exposure to other influences on my speech. It&#8217;s a shame the data used to determine the overlap doesn&#8217;t include Alaska (or Hawaii), I&#8217;d be interested to know if the general dialect for Alaska matches up with the Midwest, or if it just carried over that strongly from my parents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz, designed to estimate overlap between your speech and the dialects common to other areas of the country, showed up in IRC a couple days ago. I had to wait a while before I could actually get it to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/29\/language-runs-deep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,22,269,268,272,267,271,273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}