urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zanthus Wilhelm von Mansfeld der Löwenjäger Wilhelm von Mansfeld der Löwenjäger 2007-04-26T14:35:26Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zanthus:1416 2007-04-26T14:35:26Z 2007-04-26T14:35:26Z <div style="display: none;"> </div> <div align="center"> <div style="border: 1px solid rgb(31, 135, 178); margin: 1em; width: 500px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"> <div style="padding: 4px; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(31, 135, 178); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">What American accent do you have?<br /> <span style="font-size: small;">Created by <a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://students.csci.unt.edu/~kun/survey.html">Xavier</a> on <a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://memegen.net/">Memegen.net</a></span></div> <div style="padding: 1em; color: black; text-align: left;"> <div class="result_list"> <div align="center"><img src="http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/midland.JPG" alt="" /></div> <p style="text-align: left; color: black;"><b>Midland.</b> The Midland (please don't confuse with "Midwest") itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://people.unt.edu/tpk0005/north.bmp" alt="" /></div> <p style="text-align: left; color: black;"><b>Northern.</b> Whether you have the world famous <b>Inland North</b> accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of <b>upstate NY</b> and <b>western New England,</b> your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).</p> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 4px; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(31, 135, 178); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Take this quiz now - it's easy!</div> <div style="padding: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;"> <form action="http://www.memegen.net/view/show/2313" method="post" name="memegen_quiz"> <table> <tbody><tr> <td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div style="border: 1px solid rgb(31, 135, 178); margin: 1em; padding: 2px;"> <input type="radio" value="24924" name="questions[7673]" /> <label style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" for="questions[7673]24924">Different</label><br /> </div> <div style="border: 1px solid rgb(31, 135, 178); margin: 1em; padding: 2px;"> <input type="radio" value="24925" name="questions[7673]" /> <label style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" for="questions[7673]24925">Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different...</label><br /> </div> <div style="border: 1px solid rgb(31, 135, 178); margin: 1em; padding: 2px;"> <input type="radio" value="24923" name="questions[7673]" /> <label style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" for="questions[7673]24923">Same</label><br /> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <input type="hidden" value="1" name="page" /> <input type="submit" value="Continue on Memegen.net &gt;" name="memegen_submit" /> </form> </div> </div> </div> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zanthus:1203 2007-04-16T17:45:00Z 2007-04-16T17:45:00Z So, I was in a Half Price Books store yesterday, and I found a copy of The Three Musketeers that seemed really old and was in pretty good condition for only $8.&nbsp; There was no date on the title page, but I found that in the time period between 1890ish and 1910ish, publishers didn't always put a publication year in the book.&nbsp; I did some research, and it seems that the book was published sometime before October of 1896, because that was when the publisher moved away from the address listed on the title page.&nbsp; So yeah, I was flying pretty high for the rest of the night =D