Comments on: Open thread 6/16/22 https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628631 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:44:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628631 Too good not to add – picked this up from comments in the Post Neo linked from 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
Amy Walker does 21 accents – ending with the Transatlantic.

Personal side note: I was arranging a medical examination by telephone with a central operator for our insurance service. His basic accent was Continental Indian, overlaid with either a Scots or Canadian pronunciation for words like about => “aboot” .
Very pleasant to listen to, although not a mix I had ever heard before!

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628515 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:10:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628515 Accents and affectations?

“Would that it twer so simple.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_83Cg0QUfY

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628510 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:00:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628510 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh0210A-VZo&t=65s

We have a dear friend from the South Shaw of Lon gIsland who loves this scene. Marisa Tomei, Brooklyn born and bred, said her mother found the voice of her character terribly embarrassing.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628509 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:56:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628509 I wonder if Hillerman simply relaxed and reverted to type

What you hear in that 1984 interview is Hillerman relaxed. In character, he used different voices.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628508 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:51:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628508 Buckley had the former and was accused of putting on a phony British accent.

His brother talked the same way. Even his son has some boarding school vowels. (The son’s an amiable $hit).

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628506 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:11:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628506 Tommy SHah. My father, born 1920, said the same thing about escapism in films.
It’s difficult to differentiate Mid Atlantic from Received American Theater (I think that’s the term) pronunciation.
Buckley had the former and was accused of putting on a phony British accent.
I got well into Mencken’ s mammoth work on American English. Word origins were interesting, but the rest had been made obsolete by homogenization.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628473 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 01:22:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628473 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbAGa4NdDs

This is a somewhat intense example of what my peeps sound like. (Start at 00:27).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Eo9d6l6uc&t=86s

The men’s version is here (start at 1:00).

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628422 Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:37:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628422 Paul in Boston:

Yes.

The Wiki article I linked to in the post is more informative than the video.

]]> By: Paul in Boston https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628421 Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:36:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628421 I think that Katherine Hepburn’s accent was authentic. She grew up in ultra-high Wasp Connecticut and had what I think was called Park Avenue lockjaw.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2022/06/16/open-thread-6-16-22/#comment-2628417 Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:05:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=117813#comment-2628417 Here’s a post on my own accent and how I got rid of it.

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