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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 movie
by mcnamaratw 11y ago
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.
- osullivj 11y agoI 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...
- mcnamaratw 11y agoRight, 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.