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.
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. 👍