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these effing accents

posted 8 years ago by dailyshampoo48
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why are american writers talking in upperclass british accents? completely unconvincing.

[–] Goranjake 8 years ago

I've only heard Leigh's accent and it sounds exactly like Parker did in her tapes.

I'll watch the movie soon to judge everyone else's accents.

[–] dailyshampoo48 8 years ago

so dotty was completely affected then? what a letdown, tho not completely surprising.

[–] Goranjake 8 years ago

so dotty was completely affected then?

I'm not sure what this means?

[–] Kompressor_Fan 8 years ago

It means that she put on airs....sort of like how Madonna started speaking like Princess Anne when she moved to England. That would be a good example of affected speech.

[–] Goranjake 8 years ago

Oh that makes sense. Dorothy Parker WOULD be an example I suppose.

[–] jcosyn-1 7 years ago

Parker's speaking voice was the product of her origins, upbringing, finishing-school education, social circle, and the times she lived in. Just as most people's speech patterns are formed. It wasn't "completely affected"; it was how she learned to talk in from the environment she came from and lived in. Allowing for individual variation, it was like many thousands of other people who grew up in that time and place, with similar influences.

Why would you expect people who grew up a century ago in a vastly different social environment and with vastly different schooling from yours to talk the way you do?