When and why Americans changed the way of talking. Comparing all those audiovisual documents from those years (movies, documentaries, interviews and tapes of rural-common people) with the ways Americans speak today, I can only say that you guys talk in a grandiloquent, exaggerated, ghetto and impolite way.
I see the same thing in Europe today. People talk less formally, politely, more use of slang/curse words/ghetto speak.
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White people copy black slang
The recording equipment also only picks up certain frequencies. iirc it's also because people on the television and radio had to speak in certain ways in order to be heard (because of the equipment playing the sound) and the people listening copied them. Transatlantic accent is neat youtu.be
In the South people stopped being non-rhotic because black people (and maybe because of New England) were non-rhotic. It's also kind of poshy -- like rolling Rs which used to be an English thing (some presidents did it) -- and that's usually frowned upon when everyone is supposed to be equal.
Cities are fast lived. On the land they speak with an accent like 1000 years ago.
No they don't
People put on fancy accents in order to sound more interesting on TV.
Only fancy people got a chance to go on TV
Accents are fun, especially in America. You have native English speakers who all sound different and we're effect by the different migrants that came to the region. And you have the migrants them selfs who have there own accents.
What I'm curious about is if other non English countries have accents in the way they talk.
We have three.
it's the same here
people in the 1960s talk quite differently, like essentially the exact same language we use today, just some different weird accent, or it could just bein the case of americans, modern americans talk like faggots
thyey thyalk lyiek thyies byasicyally, like a valley girl type accent
Are you gonna go into detail about them?
"a" pronounced as "ah" - the standard
"a" pronounced as "oh" - the northern
the Caucasian accent
Cities are melting pots
~1960 half the population lived on the countryside but now most have found their way to the cities and it's more common to be able to move long distances
We see it today; a generation coddeled and raised in consumerism and degeneracy.
The generation that spoke with levity and propriety were from a time when there was stricter social order, and you had to cement your status. You spoke well, dressed well, made a good impression. When the social mores and strictures fell out of place, people reveled in their imperfection in a form of hedonistic solipsism.
Speech became lazy, clothes became casual, life became automated and mass-produced. No longer was there the frontier and the struggle that made its people so polished and refined. A coddled generation... they know not what they forsake.
>tfw your country has a stupid amount of accents
>some are extremely diverse and interesting
>people still think there is a single "brit" accent
Because most "americans" are immigrants and true americans live next to them while having a cuck worship culture.
You have one upper class dialect and who-gives-a-fuck-how-many lower ("working") class dialects.
Thanks for reiterating my point, Sven.
They jusr care about the upper class one though. Britain is the most class cucked nation on earth
People spoke a lot different here too back half a century ago. It's really weird listening to shows from the 60's and 70's, as they spoke so slow and non-slurred. Though by the 80's, it had started "normalizing" to what we speak like now.
>"a" pronounced as "oh" - the northern
Isn't it a Moscovite thing?
Parisians lost this potato-in-the-mouth accent when they speak
>we're effect
>them selfs
>there own accents
>what I'm curious about is if other countries have accents in the way they talk
*retards copy black slang
>why did language change after dozens of decades?
We never actually talked that way.
That accent you hear is called the "Trans Atlantic Accent" and was the United State's version of "Received Pronunciation".
It was a learned accent used only in media.
If you want to hear how Americans from the 50's-60's really spoke, just listen to some Baby Boomers speak.