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Mermaid infiltration style? Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybo
by neffy 10y ago
Mermaid infiltration style? Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked.
- sverige 10y agoI think "Mid-Atlantic" in this case refers to the accents commonly found from Delaware and Maryland south to the northern parts of North Carolina.
- CRConrad 10y agoOch att döma av citatet ur artikeln ett par poster högre upp så har du fel.
- flanbiscuit 10y agoI was under the same impression. I thought they called it the "mid-atlantic" accent because it was halfway between the US and British accent. Boy do I feel stupid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states
- cperciva 10y agoIt is called a "mid-Atlantic" accent because it's halfway between American and British; it has nothing to do with mid-Atlantic states. The author even acknowledges this in the sentence immediately following the one where she claims to be deeply offended: "What that name means in this case is that the accent can be placed somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between New England and England". This is simply poor writing.
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- GirlsCanCode 10y agoIf you actually read the article, you would have seen that the author explains mid-Atlantic exactly that way. Why do you criticize articles you haven't read? @dang: Ban this guy.
- nptatall 10y ago> Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked. That is exactly why "mid-atlantic accent" is called that[0]. It's halfway between American and British, and it's the native accent of somewhere indistinct where nobody is actually from. ---- [0] Also, since apparently this needs to be explicitly stated in this ridiculous, Gell-Mann-Effect-in-full-force HN thread: "mid-atlantic accent" and "trans-atlantic accent" are synonyms. They are different words for the same thing. BOTH ARE RIGHT.