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Did anyone else get the impression the newsman was an American faking a continental accent?

captainmuon 4y ago
Actually he was an American faking a Mid-Atlantic accent (which everybody faked, because it was a made up accent): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
- nhinck2 4y ago
  Actually it's an Australian accent.
  - infradig 4y ago
    Mid-Pacific I'd call it.
    - nhinck2 4y ago
      It's the cultivated Australian accent. It's relatively uncommon and is barely spoken by anyone under the age of 50.
      - uf00lme 4y ago
        Definitely looks and sounds like a 60/70s ABC (Australian Broadcasting corporation) science segment. Wonder if they still have something similar
      - daniel-cussen 4y ago
        Oh like the cultivated non-vulgar Chilean accent, mild version of the accent. Dying breed.
infradig 4y ago
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kevin_Sanders https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kevin_Sanders "Sanders' CNN reports on Nitinol, a new metal energy conversion system won the US Engineer's Award for Broadcasting Excellence. His follow-up articles in Science Digest were translated in German and republished in Japanese by Japan Times in their annual selection of the world's best science reports. Sanders is working on a follow-up article and an update documentary for world release on new and startling disclosures on the origins and potential of Nitinol. )...
tomas_nort 4y ago
exidy 4y ago
The newsman is Kevin Sanders[1] an Australian TV journalist and presenter. He's not particularly well known, but he was a newsreader for GTV 9 (Melbourne) and a presenter for A Current Affair back in the 70s. His accent is the "broadcast accent" that was cultivated at the time. If you can lay your hands on a copy of Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously[2] you'll hear a young Mel Gibson switch between his normal and a broadcast accent for his scenes in the recording booth. [1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467242/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467242/ [2] https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11541-the-year-of-living-dangerously https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11541-the-year-of-living-da...
projektfu 4y ago
I'm wondering what a continental English accent would be. English as spoken by Northern Europeans as a second language? No worries, I got your meaning.

Actually he was an American faking a Mid-Atlantic accent (which everybody faked, because it was a made up accent): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

nhinck2 4y ago
Actually it's an Australian accent.
- infradig 4y ago
  Mid-Pacific I'd call it.
  - nhinck2 4y ago
    It's the cultivated Australian accent. It's relatively uncommon and is barely spoken by anyone under the age of 50.
    - uf00lme 4y ago
      Definitely looks and sounds like a 60/70s ABC (Australian Broadcasting corporation) science segment. Wonder if they still have something similar
    - daniel-cussen 4y ago
      Oh like the cultivated non-vulgar Chilean accent, mild version of the accent. Dying breed.

infradig 4y ago

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kevin_Sanders https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kevin_Sanders "Sanders' CNN reports on Nitinol, a new metal energy conversion system won the US Engineer's Award for Broadcasting Excellence. His follow-up articles in Science Digest were translated in German and republished in Japanese by Japan Times in their annual selection of the world's best science reports. Sanders is working on a follow-up article and an update documentary for world release on new and startling disclosures on the origins and potential of Nitinol. )...

tomas_nort 4y ago

exidy 4y ago

The newsman is Kevin Sanders[1] an Australian TV journalist and presenter. He's not particularly well known, but he was a newsreader for GTV 9 (Melbourne) and a presenter for A Current Affair back in the 70s. His accent is the "broadcast accent" that was cultivated at the time. If you can lay your hands on a copy of Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously[2] you'll hear a young Mel Gibson switch between his normal and a broadcast accent for his scenes in the recording booth. [1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467242/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467242/ [2] https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11541-the-year-of-living-dangerously https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11541-the-year-of-living-da...

projektfu 4y ago

I'm wondering what a continental English accent would be. English as spoken by Northern Europeans as a second language? No worries, I got your meaning.