Att: Usa Americans And Luxembourgians-Need Volunteers For Simple Survey

Hello all!
My friends from Luxembourg need folks to fill out a simple 5-10 minute questionaire for their bachelor thesis for English. It's simple and non personal (I took it), but we still need a headcount so, please respond below or PM me if interested in helping. Thanks!

 

https://youtu.be/u0EyZDzfm3E

 

ooh a survey, i love spaming my opinions all over the net, but i don't see any linky link. just a wild guess maybe there's a good reason i don't.
i think i've seen that icon before, and oh look, he even likes himself, its always good to like yourself, i guess.

 

ohhh wow! sorry! I didn't even see there were any comments!! must've been after I signed out earlier.

meh, not that kind of survey. multiple choice. I'll message you the link. i don't really have a good response as to why I don't just put it here, but I'm trying to respect my friends' wishes/their privacy (maybe??) idk
i'll ask them again. Maybe I'll end up just posting it, because they do sound like they want more to take it.

(ran out of likes! although I'm not exactly sure I understand what you were trying to say there, tbh. lol)

 

Send me the link and Ill fill it out.

 

I had a Luxembourger for lunch yesterday with a protein shake and a side of gluten free gluten

 

It's okay to post the link.

 

Are you U.S. born American or Luxembourgian? Of course I will if you qualify.


Just to be clear, I am not at all meaning to be rude. It's possible I am confusing you with someone else or maybe you misunderstood. Idk. Long day. But to be sure, I don't mean to be rude.

 

I understand, but my friends had asked me not to. I did check with them again Aeri. Is this OK?

 

Okay.

 

I thought it was American and Luxies who were wanting answers. So no - I don't qualify.

 

No problem...mate! (did I do that right?? )
I appreciate the offer anyway. Thanks!

 

Hey again!!

So, I'm now reviewing the final thesis draft for which this simple survey was conducted, and now that it's in my hands, this is all making much more sense. Once I'm finished looking this over, I'll try to contact those who participated so that you can know what this was all about. It's actually quite interesting and I was unaware of the concept this experiment was analyzing (maybe the Brits here might though, which is probably why they were excluded from participating). Furthermore, my friends were very clever in conducting this experiment, not to let on all that they were looking for and I think ...well, I'm just very intrigued by it all. hehe

stay tuned!!

 

when you publish i hope you post a link to your/their thesis.
i'm curious about what you determine or are expecting to find luxumborgians and u.s. ians to have in common.

i've participated in other social psychology research surveys in the past,
and sometimes find review of their findings fascinating.

 

Probably what you think of Brits

 

brits are cool, even if thier taste in food and architecture may be notoriously less then wonderful,
their preservationists love for narrow gauge railways redeames all,
and they seem to realize more then the u.s. how precious what wild green remains on their little island kingdom really is.
(of course i realize these are mostly stereotypes and actual mileage may vary)

 

Omg! I'm so bad at finishing things!! Well, I kinda got swept away by various distractions...

Anyway, wow! I've forgotten a lot, but I'm going to start posting the key things I remember. Might take a few posts/days, but I'm going to finish this! (unlike not finishing to read the 2nd paper...)


1) So yes! There were TWO papers. One was on "binomials something" (not binomial equations, which is the only "binomial" I knew of, but in English linguistics) and the other on "verb particles". (I honestly need to refresh on all of the details again. Will do in next post.)
2) Ok, so they only used a participant group of those ages 20-40, but even if yours wasn't selected, I think you might still find this study interesting.
3) Um, so the "British" thing?? ...will come back to it (gah! my memory!!)

yes, my memory is awful right now! I should have started this months ago!...

4) Oh! Ok, so there were actually some "filler" questions in there, that weren't part of the studies.
5) And so then SOME questions were for the first paper/study only, and SOME OTHER questions were for the second paper/study only.
6) Something I found interesting was that Luxembourgians seemed to follow the rules better than Americans. Not to say there are any wrong answers here. The study was to observe whether the participants followed the norms, the most commonly used orderings according to "that British thing". (ahh, again sorry.)

Ok, seriously, I won't embarrass myself anymore. I'll be back though.

 

It has nothing to do with what anybody thinks or not. It's about this collection of all the English linguistic conventions created by the Brits. (I can't remember the name. argh!!)

But you folks are alright by me!

 

Ok, I'm back with a little more.

1) so it was the British National Corpus, what i was trying to remember.
2) The first paper (the binomials something or other) was the test to see which choice participants chose, "Is it 'apples and oranges' or 'oranges and apples'. In this study, apples is the more commonly used word, so the order of 'apples and oranges' is the more commonly used phrase according to the British National Corpus. And, if I remember correctly, most participants chose the more popular, but overall, more of the Luxembourgians chose the popular than Americans. In other words, more Americans chose the less commonly used phrase in ALL of the questions. 'Apples and oranges' probably isn't the best example, because this might have been one of the unanimous instances, where ALL participants chose the more commonly used phrase.
Get it?

3) The second paper (verb particles is what it's called) was testing to see which participants would chose, "the phrase following the verb or the phrase before the verb". And the hypothesis here was that if the phrase contained 5 or more words it would come ?before? (I need to double check this) the verb, whereas phrases that contained less than 5 (usually 2 words) would come ?after? the verb. (yes, if you are really interested, I need to find this for accuracy's sake. I'll edit this post next time. I will also find an example. And I will also find out the results of the survey. Pretty sure that it was similar to the first paper though, where the majority of participants followed the norms.)

It was very interesting though! I'm not too sure they will publish them though. I never did get a straight answer, nor did I even find out how it went. Eh hem....although now I'm curious!

 

I find things like this interesting. I've always wondered if individuals choose the order of lists based on individual preferences of rhythm(rhythm of each word's syllables) also. I'll be thinking about this for a while lol(not obsessively, BTW).