But are there really no regional accents north of the 49th, and it appears to suggest there are no Spanish-majority areas in California, Texas or Florida, which seems highly implausible, sad to see Cajun French appears to be extinct.
But are there really no regional accents north of the 49th, and it appears to suggest there are no Spanish-majority areas in California, Texas or Florida, which seems highly implausible, sad to see Cajun French appears to be extinct.
I like the idea of the map, but I think the sampling is suspect. There are not many people who still speak Cajun French as a first language, but it's not dead. I've overheard it being spoken in Southern Louisiana.
Also, I have never noticed a difference in pronunciation of "on" in different parts of the Bay Area, as the map shows. Maybe I just haven't noticed, but it seems dubious.
"Each morning we follow strangers through their Twitter updates, becoming intimately involved in their banal daily errands. We imagine ourselves as virtual flâneurs, exploring cities 140 characters at a time through the lives of others. Sometimes we follow these strangers for a day and other times for months, following the ups and downs of their posts to this public venue.
Using publicly available embedded geotag information in Twitter updates, we track the locations of users through their GPS coordinates and make a photograph to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text.
We think of these photographs as historical monuments to small lived moments, selecting texts that reveal something about the personal nature of the users' lives or the national climate of the United States. It is also grounds the virtual reality of social networking data streams in their originating locations in the physical world while examining how the nature of one's physical space may influence online presence."
A "sound map" of the city of Sergiyev Posad, Russia, is here.
"The map [which is an interactive version of the image below] consists of 12 city areas assigned with different colouring according to the month of the sound recording. Each area is represented by stereo field recordings featuring a guest related to that particular area."
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