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WCDT strips 4286-4290 (15th to 19th June 2020)
Roborat:
--- Quote from: notStanley on 16 Jun 2020, 10:13 ---On accents: I grew up in Missouri, now in California, but enough howdy and y'all have snuck in that occasionally folk think I am from Texas.
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My father was in the air force, we moved so often that I ended up being an accent chameleon, 6 months in a new place and you would think I had lived all my life there.
Mr Intrepid:
Accents are less pronounced today than they were in the past. WWII moved huge numbers of people both to fight and to support the war effort. Mass media produced a "neutral" accent for news readers and announcers, with created a sound that many people emulated.
Economic and educational opportunities were also a factor. Of course, economic and education were also related to race.
Mrs Whitmore's accent, such as it is, is likely related to both her age (patterns from her childhood), where she was raised, (a more rural and isolated environment). But that's really all speculation on my part.
hedgie:
Regional accents are most certainly still there. I have a friend who is from Alabama who is seriously considering hiring a speech therapist because she's worried that she sounds like some sort of redneck.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 16 Jun 2020, 11:50 ---Do they really talk 'down south' up north?
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No, and those who try are usually hilariously bad at it. Like Bubbles was here.
On the subject of regional accents: My wife grew up with in the North Carolina mountains. Over the years she has trained herself out of most of her Southern Appalachian accent in favor of a more neutral one. It’s doubtful that Harvard would have hired her if she still spoke like her mother or her sister, who still have strong Southern Appalachian accents. Like it or not, people with that accent are perceived as uneducated and unintelligent.
Of course, that’s not limited to Southern accents. A South Boston accent won’t get you far in the academic world either.
St.Clair:
Comic's up.
Sex, cookies, whatever.
"Some people juggle geese!"
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