High School Fitness Program from 1962. Junkfood & GMO's Were Unknown #MAHA #BringItBack πͺ
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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.
many thanks for all that. well stated and very interesting. π