Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

2008/5/4 Kelly Drinkwater <mizunomi@...>:
> Hey all, I'm conducting a quick survey on lexical
> variation for my intro ling class, and I thought it
> would be interesting to survey conlangers, to see if
> being a language enthusiast / very conscious of language
> has any effect.
>
>  I would really appreciate your help here -- it'll only
>  take a few minutes. And rest assured that your data will
>  be anonymized.
>
>  So it would be great if you could reply (and reply-all if
>  you feel like it, but I don't want to swamp the list with
>  people's filled-out surveys) and fill out the following.
>  (I'll post any noteworthy results for further discussion
>  if there's interest.)
>
>  (adapted from the McGill Dialectology and
>  Sociolinguistics Lab's "North American Regional
>  Vocabulary Survey")
>
>  Date of birth: 1 Dec 1966
>  Sex: male
>  Where do you currently live? (city, state/province,
>  country) Gothenburg, Sweden
>  Please list the places you've lived between age 4 and age
>  18, with the most recent first: Gothenburg, Sweden;
>  Kungälv, Sweden; Orust, Sweden.
>  Occupation: Translator (Swedish <-> English, German ->
>  Swedish, in theory also from Icelandic, Norwegian and
>  Danish)
>  Highest level of education completed: University
>  Ethnic heritage: Swedish, Ukrainian, Pomeranian
>
>  What is/are your native language(s)?
Swedish and German. My Swedish grandmother had lived in the
US (Chicago) from 1920-1932 and started speaking English
with me very early, perhaps age 4 or 5.

>  Roughly how many years have you been conlanging or
>  studying linguistics?
30 years.

>  How many years ago did you first encounter / begin
>  reading (not necessarily join / begin posting on) an
>  online conlanging community?
12

>  For each of the following items, please choose which word
>  you use most often, or put the word you do use if it's
>  not a choice. Feel free to leave comments if some aspect
>  of your usage is noteworthy (eg if you are
>
>   1. the metal device over a sink or bathtub that controls
>      the flow of water: faucet, spigot, tap
tap

>   2. the apparatus from which you'd get a drink of water
>      in a public place: bubbler, , water fountain
drinking fountain

>   3. the device that firefighters attach their hoses to:
>      fire hydrant, fire plug
n/a

>   4. the container in which you'd put water for washing
>      the car or the floor: bucket, pail
bucket

>   5. a machine that performs banking services: ATM,
>      automated teller, bank machine, cash machine, cash
>      point, guichet, hole in the wall, money machine,
>      commercial name (eg MAC machine, Instant Teller,
>      Instabank)
cash machine

>   6. stuff you throw away: garbage, rubbish, trash
trash

>7.     the wheeled conveyance you put your groceries in
>         while shopping: basket, buggy, cart, trolley
cart

>   8. a shallow pan for frying eggs or meat: fry pan,
>      frying pan, griddle, skillet, spider
frying pan

>   9. a piece of chocolate, 4-6 inches long: bar, candy
>      bar, chocolate bar
>
chocolate bar

>  10. a carbonated, non-alcoholic beverage, like Coke or
>      Sprite: coke, cola, cold drink, fizzy drink, pop,
>      soda, soda pop, soft drink, tonic
soda

>  11. cooking outside over a charcoal grill in the
>      summertime: barbecuing, grilling, grilling out,
>      having a cookout
grilling

>  12. a cold sandwich on a foot-long roll: sub(marine),
>      hero, hoagie, grinder
o/a

>  13. the sweet, creamy layer on top of a cake: frosting,
>      icing
frosting

>  14. your main evening meal: dinner, supper
dinner

>  15. food picked up and taken home to eat: carry-out, take-
>      away, take-out
take-away

>  16. an appliance on which you heat food in saucepans:
>      cooker, range, stove
stove

>  17. knives, forks, and spoons: cutlery, flatware,
>      silverware, utensils
cutlery

>  18. contact someone by telephone: call, phone, ring,
>      telephone, buzz
call

>  19. the toilet facilities in a public place: bathroom,
>      facilities, ladies' room / men's room, lavatory, loo,
>      restroom, toilet, washroom, WC, john
toilet

>  20. athletic shoes worn with jeans as casual footwear:
>      gym shoes, plimsolls, runners, running shoes,
>      sneakers, tennis shoes, trainers, brand name (eg
>      Adidas)
sneakers

>21.   a sweatshirt with front pockets and a hood: hooded
>         sweatshirt, hoodie, kangaroo jacket, bunnyhug
hooded sweatshirt

>22.    a piece of furniture that seats 3 people: couch,
>         chesterfield, davenport, divan, settee, sofa
sofa

>  23. a piece of furniture with drawers for socks,
>      underwear, etc.: bureau, chest (of drawers), drawers,
>      dresser, highboy
drawers

>  24. the last letter of the alphabet: zed, zee
Depends on who I'm talking to, to myself 'zeed' (sic!)

>25.    the place where you pay for something in a store:
>         cash, cash register, cashier, check-out, till
cash register

>  Thanks so much for participating! -Alioth
>


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