Posted January 4, 201114 yr http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap This is a pretty interesting evaluation of the accents of the entire country, Ohio in particular as it falls right in the middle of quite a few different major accents. The map itself is an ultimate fail in terms of graphic design, and it'll take awhile to figure it all out, but the amount of data and research is impressive nevertheless. Particularly the island that is Cincinnati, which apparently has a lot of influence from the New York City accent, which makes some sense as Cincy likely saw a lot of migration from NYC during the early and mid 1800's, and a lot of those families likely never left. Anyway, I can't stand to look at it much more because it hurts my eyes, but thought some others here might like to see it.
January 4, 201114 yr http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap This is a pretty interesting evaluation of the accents of the entire country, Ohio in particular as it falls right in the middle of quite a few different major accents. The map itself is an ultimate fail in terms of graphic design, and it'll take awhile to figure it all out, but the amount of data and research is impressive nevertheless. Particularly the island that is Cincinnati, which apparently has a lot of influence from the New York City accent, which makes some sense as Cincy likely saw a lot of migration from NYC during the early and mid 1800's, and a lot of those families likely never left. Anyway, I can't stand to look at it much more because it hurts my eyes, but thought some others here might like to see it. that has got to be the absolute worst map I've ever viewed! I have a headache!
January 4, 201114 yr ^ ha, agreed. I really wish it looked better, the data and research is all there, it could be beautiful. I almost want to volunteer the next four hours of my life to make something attractive in Illustrator and send it to the guy.
January 4, 201114 yr Like you said, the data is quite impressive but the visual element is Sylvan Learning Center. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 5, 201114 yr It's impossible to draw perfect maps for dialects because you have tons of areas with a mixture of dialects. It's so diverse - just think about how your own neighbors sound different than you. Those boundaries are never perfect, especially with us being such a mobile society. It just gives a general idea. I noticed these maps basically just show pronounciation of consonants and vowels. It doesn't factor in melodic patterns, stress of certain words in the sentence, common phrases or substitutes for words used elsewhere, etc. Jesus Christ that map is confusing. I don't know what the hell is going on. I just see the same boundaries I've seen on tons of other maps.
January 5, 201114 yr That map is painful, I'd guess that the best way to show the data is actually with layers that you can toggle on and off.
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