The US Northeast was settled by people from Southern England, so they spoke that way naturally. As more people from north of England, as well as Scotland, Ireland settled America, other US accents emerged. And later still with German, Dutch, Italian, Polish etc. people settling USA. Ultimately a "general American" accent(with obvious variations) existed across most of USA, except the South, and the Northeast. The Northeast accent survived into the 20th century, and that's why people spoke that way. Nothing artificial or manufactured. In fact, if you listen to NE accents across 20th c, it gets less "British" and more "General American" as the years go by.
Would love to learn to talk like that just for the laughs. I’m pretty sure Stewie Griffin talks with a transatlantic accent in the first 5-6 seasons and that was the joke they were going for was dude is American but talks like that because he’s a pretentious narcissist 😅
I have a mixed accent similar to the transatlantic one; I grew up in an international school, but I would then move the England where there is a mix of both accents and my voice box seems to choose which accent comes out stronger
For a linguist, you don't seem to know that the RP accent is not a feature of London, but of the upper class toffs who mainly lived in the Home Counties, the affluent areas around the capital. A true London accent is not 'refined' at all.
I tried to do it by imitating a British accent but having a slight Spanish accent makes me sound like I'm on a tv show about ancient rome
_Ah, a wiseguy, see?_
The US Northeast was settled by people from Southern England, so they spoke that way naturally.
As more people from north of England, as well as Scotland, Ireland settled America, other US accents emerged.
And later still with German, Dutch, Italian, Polish etc. people settling USA. Ultimately a "general American" accent(with obvious variations) existed across most of USA, except the South, and the Northeast.
The Northeast accent survived into the 20th century, and that's why people spoke that way. Nothing artificial or manufactured. In fact, if you listen to NE accents across 20th c, it gets less "British" and more "General American" as the years go by.
This is such an awesome video, im blasted rn and im just so glad that i found it
Would love to learn to talk like that just for the laughs. I’m pretty sure Stewie Griffin talks with a transatlantic accent in the first 5-6 seasons and that was the joke they were going for was dude is American but talks like that because he’s a pretentious narcissist 😅
I have a mixed accent similar to the transatlantic one; I grew up in an international school, but I would then move the England where there is a mix of both accents and my voice box seems to choose which accent comes out stronger
Underrated channel
I need to learn this
Also influencing Language, one of the transformations in the way of speaking during an Era has to do with diction, affected by people's dental arches.
For a linguist, you don't seem to know that the RP accent is not a feature of London, but of the upper class toffs who mainly lived in the Home Counties, the affluent areas around the capital. A true London accent is not 'refined' at all.
FDR doesn’t sound very transatlantic to my ear
He definitely had a transatlantic accent, but that clip wasn’t a very good example of it.
My accent is all over the place, I could say trans-world
Is this the origin of the accent affected by people like Katherine Hepburn and Tallulah Bankhead?