I think that is the true point of the rant -- those individual accents, based on regional accents, are being lost to a high-pitched, slightly nasal whine across the board.
I think that is the true point of the rant — those individual accents, based on regional accents, are being lost to a high-pitched, slightly nasal whine across the board.
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There was a time when someone with a practiced ear could locate a person’s place of birth, give or take a county width, by their accent. A case in point, in 1972 I took a new job and moved to a town approximately fifty miles by the road, not as the crow flies, from where I was born and raised. As I went from customer to customer it was quite common for someone to listen to the first words I spoke and say something like,”You’re from further up state, aren’t you?” Now my nephew age 22 who was born right here and lived in South Carolina all his life although my brother moved him to Fort Mill, just across from Charlotte, NC as a small boy, sounds nothing like his father. He could be from anywhere, he has no distinctive accent at all that I can hear.
Soon we will all sound the same, listen to the same sorry excuse for music and be as boring as Al Gore. I dream of spending a day hearing the speech of those who were old when I was a small boy, they used words like “nary”.