Anyone else can't stand the American accent?
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sheetsadam1 — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 01:42 PM)
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/24/149160526/shakespeares-accent-how-did-the-bard-really-sound
"To be or not to be" may be the question, but there's another question that's been nagging Shakespeare scholars for a long time: What did Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio, Portia or Puck really sound like when Shakespeare was first performed more than four centuries ago?
The British Library has completed a new recording of 75 minutes of The Bard's most famous scenes, speeches and sonnets, all performed in the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's time.
That accent sounds a little more Edinburgh —
and sometimes even more Appalachia
— than you might expect.
This is primarily because the region was so secluded and remained so for centuries. Folkorists and ethnomusicologists have collected folk ballads from Appalachia which aren't substantially different from their 16th and 17th century UK origins. There were also certain communities in West Virginia and parts of western Pennsylvania which spoke German as a first language until well into the 20th century.
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MiniMasterpieceTheater — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 04:08 PM)
we have way more than one accent. like at least a dozen. perhaps you have an untrained ear for such things?
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Homicidal_User
— 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 04:22 PM)No, you have been misinformed.
There is only one American accent.
It is impossible to identify which state or region of America somebody comes from by listening to their accent.
It's just like Britain, you cannot tell if someone is Scottish, Welsh or English just by accent.
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MiniMasterpieceTheater — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 04:40 PM)
i can totes tell where an american is from at least by region. like i said…you have an untrained ear for it.
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MiniMasterpieceTheater — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 07:15 PM)
Lol I was kinda just ****in with the OP
But at first I wanted to say mid east… Maryland or really far up NY. But for some reason northern Michigan and Ohio kept jumping into my brain because of the damned O of yours lol. So I'm going great lakes! Maybe upper plains… don't think anywhere south…other than maybe Kentucky
Was I close…not trying to doxx
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sheetsadam1 — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 07:23 PM)
You're pretty good actually. Southern Ohio, in what's considered one of the Appalachian counties of the state, and actually slightly closer to West Virginia than Kentucky, but I could be in either of them within an hour or so. But my mom's side of the family all had roots in Kentucky and I was closer to them than my dad's, who were West Virginians (a town near the Maryland border).
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MiniMasterpieceTheater — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 07:29 PM)
Lol could be…my stepfather's people were from there about…Minford I believe was the actual town…nice country
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sheetsadam1 — 9 months ago(June 30, 2025 07:34 PM)
Minford has a nice dairy bar. So do Locust Grove and Portsmouth too, around that same area. I grew up close to there, but I'm near Athens now. I visit friends in Newark and Zanesville occasionally, but that's as close as I get to Columbus intentionally lol
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