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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 30, 2021 19:24:56 GMT
Each country also has something know as the "standard" (neutral) accent. In the United States, it is apparently the Kansas (midwestern) accent.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2021 20:53:15 GMT
It has never been called the Kansas accent. The supposed standard US accent has sometimes been called "midwest standard", but it mostly refers to how newscasters and other professionally trained presenters speak, not to a specific accent. This is too long, but ~ www.atlasobscura.com/articles/neutral-american-accent |
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Post by fumobici on Jul 1, 2021 5:13:37 GMT
Newscasters always conform to the "proper" version of whatever a country speaks. California English is obviously the most cultured and advanced form of American English* (AE), but Midwestern is not too far behind. Places like Boston, NYC, New Jersey, or the many flavors of Southern AE are of course regional failings of correct AE  Nobody would trust a newscaster who sounds like they came from Joisy, Alabama, or Oklahoma. Except in those places—maybe. When I lived in Texas, none of the local newscasters had much of a Texas twang. It just lacks the necessary gravitas! *it has such a rep in Italy at any rate |
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2021 10:06:24 GMT
*it has such a rep in Italy at any rate Well, the Valley Girl vocabulary is easier to pick up than real English. |
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