What's Your 'Twitter Accent?'
Your tweets may be giving away more about where you live than you realize — and no, we’re not talking about your GPS location (although that’s kind of a giveaway, too).
Your tweets may be giving away more about where you live than you realize — and no, we’re not talking about your GPS location (although that’s kind of a giveaway, too).
With Twitter having more in common with spoken English than written English, it’s no wonder that regional dialect often comes across in tweets — but what does this mean for language?
“Twitter is spreading regionalisms across state and city lines, but they’re still staying within social and demographic groups,” according to a recent study.
Not only does this suggest that certain regions have a stronger cultural influence than others, but it also shows that language spreads online in pretty much the same way as it does offline.
Perhaps demographic characteristics will shed light on the way slang and abbreviations move between regions — race, age, gender and politics have to play a role in all this.
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