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Volume and language being spoken by people right next to you on the train


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  1. graphgrammarchecker says:

    this should not be a curved line, but bars. The graph as it is indicates that if I start speaking English and gradually move to Spanish, my speaking volume will go up. But that if I want to move from Spanish to Cantonese, I’ll have to speak Arabic and Hindi first. This is not the case.

  2. Ninjarina says:

    Well I’m Cantonese and I’m from Brooklyn, born and raised. This must mean they can hear me on the moon.

  3. fubuki says:

    Xenophobia FTW!

    • Ham says:

      It’s pretty well-educated for xenophobia. Typical xenophobes don’t have the foggiest what “Cantonese” is. It’s all chingchong slant talk to them. And there’d be one entry for both Hindi and Arabic as every middle-eastern and central asian person is a sheet wearing “golly gosh yes”-type to a xenophobe.

      I read this more as a small dig at clashing cultural norms. Especially as all the non-English speakers in this are merely at a little above outdoor level, and non-Brooklyn English-speakers are made fun of too, being “inaudible”. No one gets a free pass in this graph, and not having a favored group to identify with makes it hard to believe this is xenophobia.

    • kamizilla says:

      I don’t think it’s Xenophobia. The loudest “language” is Brooklyn English. Additionally, have you lived in China before? Most people don’t learn about inside voices. This country is LOUD. Like, women carrying their sleeping babies just laugh and joke as loud as they can. None of that “Shhh, quiet! The baby’s sleeping,” nonsense. I’m not saying it’s wrong of them, but it’s a generalized observation, which I’m sure is where the graph designer was coming from.

  4. Mayokitty says:

    You forgot any kind of Slavic-based language.

    Like there’s a freakin’ war outside…

  5. ducksinthewind AZ says:

    i have found the relationship (person beside me in public) to be volume:objectionable language and content. then the curve applies.

  6. Joseph says:

    All values on the chart double if the speaker is using a cell phone.

  7. Guess Again says:

    try living overseas, it’s kind of the opposite when you hear other Americans, especially tourists…

  8. Nika says:

    Does “Teenager” count as a language? I swear they are the loudest on the train.

  9. Caminada says:

    So true!

  10. Kelly says:

    American English-speakers are the absolute loudest in the world, regardless of the dialect. they don´t even have to say anything coherent. they just have to say something at their standard yelping volume on the street at 3 am, andi can say “that´s an american, right there”

    • FacialTurd says:

      True, I went to Nice (France) this summer, There were a group of Americans At the opposite end of the Supermarket discussing which beer to buy…

  11. 216 says:

    Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    SOLID WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Great graph. Creative, humorous and unique. You rocked it pal!

  12. Doombird says:

    BA-DUMP TSSSSS!

  13. Sprite101 says:

    You forgot ebonics at ear-shattering

  14. T113 says:

    You could add ‘Cajun’ at the ‘Artillery Barrage’ level also.

    • Amethyst says:

      I disagree when it’s individual Cajun, as I live with one, but get more than one within earshot… “INCOMING!”

  15. hum says:

    Lol @ “artillery barrage”. ^_^

  16. k says:

    Cantonese needs to be much higher on the graph.

  17. yessiridisapprove says:

    I love a hot cup of ethnocentrism in the morning.

  18. Chris Broadfoot says:

    Categorical data representation FAIL.

  19. wickethewok says:

    I really wish people would understand line chart vs. bar graph… sigh…

  20. Ennauriel says:

    Wow, this graph isn’t racist at ALL.

  21. n8 says:

    i always thought boston english was the loudest

  22. GuyThatAgrees says:

    True.


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