High School Fitness Program from 1962. Junkfood & GMO's Were Unknown #MAHA #BringItBack 💪
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I've always wondered what happened to that 50's, 60's American accent. How come nobody speaks it anymore and what part of the country did it come from?
Edit: we still have a NY accent, a midwest accent, a southern accent, a Texas accent; but this accent disappeared. Maybe it was just a fake TV accent.
Like you said, fake TV accent. Every announcer/narrator had a voice like that to give the sense of authority people expected.
I'm an English speaker of English and some of us have a similar style of speech. Without the American accent obviously. It's generally called RP (Received Pronunciation) or "strangulated vowels". I don't speak it myself but it involves tightening the muscles in the throat during speech. It doesn't come from any part of the country - the entire point is to avoid any regional accent and instead prove one's membership of an elite tribe.
Our royal family evolved a particular style of speech for unknown reasons (many of them were not native English speakers) and people copied them in order to appear socially superior. It's still fashionable today amongst a few social-climbing wannabees but slowly dying out. Up until the 1980s or so the ability to speak that way was absolutely essential to get a job in radio/TV presentation, just like the narrator in the fitness video. Thankfully not so much these days.
Well this is the best explanation. Thanks.
As usual, it’s the very next post while reading down through the comments!
many thanks for all that. well stated and very interesting. 👍
The majority of people are illiterate. They know the most basic words and don’t understand anything else. MOST people can’t even use there/their/they’re correctly :|
I understand the decline of the use of language. However there is a particular tone, timbre to this time that made the accent distinct. Even if people today are using English in its proper form it does not sound like this.
Have had the exact same thoughts with the 20’s-40’s accents.
Amen. I’m a grammar kitty, too!
so tell me what you're thinkin' 😆 I jest but I agree 100%. It gets irritating to say the least and I'm no english expert, although I will say this - what they consider music today - just no, no all day and night long No. no. .... just illustrates the fact that some [many] are indeed illiterate.
The transatlantic accent? It was just not taught to speak like that except when it came to tv and film.
my proper SLP colleague would refer to many people as 'sloppy talkers' because the mumble, slur, etc.
I think it comes from lack of phonics & spelling. Students don't have to be conscious of the letters & sounds anymore, anything goes.
we actually had a very well paid reading coach at our school, when the kids were stuck on a word, her answer was to GUESS🙄
language is a code, but liberals don't understand that. and it's impossible to change their minds because the 'system' supports the nonsense.
True. But even those today that go through the most stringent language programs and enunciate correctly don't have this accent. I'm referring to the accent, just like the Brits have an accent. This one just disappeared.
yes and about that reading coach "professional guesser eh?" lol I couldn't believe the number of kids today that do not know directions, NSEW as well as how to tell time on a normal clock and I'm not kidding at all. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Unreal. 🙄