<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post111438111948368507..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111525658963643880</id><published>2005-05-04T21:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T21:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Just don&#39;t light the wrong end of that chester...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just don&#39;t light the wrong end of that chesterfield.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111525658963643880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111525658963643880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1115256540000#c111525658963643880' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111455734087221810</id><published>2005-04-26T19:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-26T19:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There aren&#39;t nearly enough words in the questionna...</title><summary type='text'>There aren&#39;t nearly enough words in the questionnaire to determine accurately what one is speaking.  My parents were both Wisconsiners, and there were many things they said, such as &quot;10 minutes of 1&quot; that people on the West Coast didn&#39;t.  &quot;Gawd&quot; was my Mother&#39;s pronunciation.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s that great description in E.B. White&#39;s parody of Hemingway&#39;s Across The River And Into The Trees (Grill</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111455734087221810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111455734087221810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114557300000#c111455734087221810' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111453536217938845</id><published>2005-04-26T13:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-26T13:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I took this test and found it interesting that the...</title><summary type='text'>I took this test and found it interesting that the West Coast idiom (particularly So Cal) didn&#39;t make up any part of the linguistic profile..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111453536217938845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111453536217938845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114535340000#c111453536217938845' title=''/><author><name>Shin Yu</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11981215391620538770</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-447313522"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111448181722807692</id><published>2005-04-25T22:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-25T22:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron -- As a Luxembourger or -ian with an accent in...</title><summary type='text'>Ron -- As a Luxembourger or -ian with an accent in _all_ the languages I speak it was fun to take the silent language profile test &amp; I came out as 50% General Americna English, 25% Yankee, 20% Dixie, and 5% Upper Midwest. &lt;BR/&gt;It isn&#39;t surprising to me that Collins, despite surface even-handedness and fairness, comes out as a fundamentalist. When politely silencing the others to death no longer </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111448181722807692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111448181722807692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114481760000#c111448181722807692' title=''/><author><name>Pierre</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111446307351472365</id><published>2005-04-25T17:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-25T17:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Surely you meant to say you rolled yards....;)</title><summary type='text'>Surely you meant to say you &lt;I&gt;rolled&lt;/I&gt; yards....;)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111446307351472365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111446307351472365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114463040000#c111446307351472365' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111444018148863522</id><published>2005-04-25T10:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-25T10:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;We&quot; called the night before halloween, in Wayne N...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;We&quot; called the night before halloween, in Wayne NJ, Goosey Night. Some people caled it Cabbage Night. Basically we went out when it got dark, and egged the neighbors houses, wrote on their car windows with soap, tp&#39;d yards and used large amounts of shaving cream. However I remember stories of neighborhoods where the vandelism was riotous -things were set on fire type of riotous.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111444018148863522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111444018148863522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114440180000#c111444018148863522' title=''/><author><name>J. Watson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12672899200810079557</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-124579531"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111440957938322764</id><published>2005-04-25T02:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-25T02:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i wonder how they come up with these..</title><summary type='text'>i wonder how they come up with these..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111440957938322764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111440957938322764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114409520000#c111440957938322764' title=''/><author><name>guile</name><uri>http://iampaperbag.blogdrive.com/</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111439854703164884</id><published>2005-04-24T23:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T23:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey, Ron, I&#39;ve done the test &amp; it reckons I speak ...</title><summary type='text'>Hey, Ron, I&#39;ve done the test &amp; it reckons I speak much the same as you do ... down here in Australia, having grown up in NZ. Most, though not all, of the questions made sense to me and related to words/expressions I really do use. &quot;Bubbler&quot; is the common term for a drinking fountain in Australia, never heard it used in NZ.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439854703164884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439854703164884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114398540000#c111439854703164884' title=''/><author><name>Martin Edmond</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15703987223264531057</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1595258319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111439435037001249</id><published>2005-04-24T21:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T21:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;visted&quot; should be &quot;visited&quot; but I sort of like th...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;visted&quot; should be &quot;visited&quot; but I sort of like the implications of the former. . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439435037001249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439435037001249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114394340000#c111439435037001249' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111439401336362356</id><published>2005-04-24T21:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T21:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Val,Your numbers being close to mine fits with you...</title><summary type='text'>Val,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your numbers being close to mine fits with you being my brother&#39;s daughter. Since I&#39;ve visted parts of the country where a drinking fountain (or a water fountain) is called a bubbler, that carriage item didn&#39;t seem so weird. Some parts of the country do acknowledge the night before Halloween as a special event.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439401336362356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439401336362356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114393980000#c111439401336362356' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111439347349459580</id><published>2005-04-24T21:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T21:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting quiz. My numbers are very similar to y...</title><summary type='text'>Interesting quiz. My numbers are very similar to yours, though I&#39;m not so Yankee. There were some choices that seemed outrageous. Who calls a shopping cart a carriage? I&#39;d like to visit that part of the world, and stand in the grocery store and laugh at people.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439347349459580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111439347349459580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114393440000#c111439347349459580' title=''/><author><name>Valerie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03716498736157684730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-643752735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438984799538245</id><published>2005-04-24T20:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-24T20:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d like to know what that &quot;night before Halloween...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d like to know what that &quot;night before Halloween&quot; question was about. It may be where my 5% Yankee came from.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111438984799538245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111438111948368507/comments/default/111438984799538245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html?showComment=1114389840000#c111438984799538245' title=''/><author><name>Laura Carter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16936549737323400532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/your-linguistic-profile-55-general.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111438111948368507' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111438111948368507' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-843607452"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2005"/></entry></feed>