(Just hopping in to say, linguists do not call a trans-Atlantic accent a mid-Atlantic accent, which is a specific local dialect in the Baltimore / Philly area - this sounds like someone accidentally conflating the two)
An American (r pronouncing) identity. As a side note, lots of tv folks still do “accent reduction” which really just means mitigating salient local features - stuff normal ppl pick up on - but linguists for the most part will still be able to pick up less marked local features
So like comparing an actor talking with a friend vs giving a speech, before WWII they would often use more transatlantic features (like /r/ deletion) in the formal speech style. After WWII, this patterns in the opposite direction! In other words American actors started to lean more into (2/x)
Yea, trans Atlantic accent! Sociolinguistically it’s pretty superficial (like, features that are easy to adapt as an adult), mostly about /r/. One thing that I think is super interesting is that before WWII, actors would switch *into* this accent (1/x)
Theory: Bluesky users respond especially ferociously to those who claim we "need to give conservatives a chance" because so many of us are part of those demographics that have spent our lives being told it's OUR responsibility to give horrible white straight men "a chance"
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Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests delivered to their home free of charge starting later this month. The U.S.
Your weekly reminder that the common Yiddishism "oy gevalt!" literally means "oh! violence!!" which makes it a thousand times funnier to say in response to dropping your pen or forgetting to eat lunch
A quick shout out to the activists, many of them in states that have been hostile to reproductive justice for decades, most of the Black and brown women, who have spent decades changing the framing, changing the language, and building this movement that has gotten us to here.
