Re:Ask HN: Is there a pan-English accent?
by mcnamaratw on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:32AM
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Yeah, there are a lot of elderly folks in NYC who use something like the Mid-Atlantic accent. Today it sounds made up, as if they learned English from old movies.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a pan-English accent?
by osullivj on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:46AM
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I imagine it sounds impossibly plummy to younger Americans, much like the 1930's aristo RP English spoken by, for instance, Deborah Devonshire (see youtube interview) sounds to younger British people. I like the sound of that mid-Atlantic though. It was always a pleasure to hear Gore Vidal interviewed - so articulate, insightful and witty, all the time in those rolling candences...
Re:Ask HN: Is there a pan-English accent?
by mcnamaratw on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @05:01PM
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Right, Gore Vidal is a perfect example of the elderly-NYC mid-Atlantic accent. Except for me it works better on TV than sitting across a coffee table. It just sounds fake to me--some part of my brain can't believe that these people really grew up talking like that.