What is the American equivalent of the posh accent?

What is the American equivalent of the posh accent?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That weird accent in 30s,40s, and 50s Hollywood movies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

      I don’t think that’s really applicable since nobody speaks like that anymore

      The educated Bay Area Californian accent is the accent of the wealthiest Americans. If you hear somebody with what some people are starting to call the ‘Stanford Accent’ odds are they are wealthy or will be.

      Haven’t heard of that, I suppose I’m not fancy enough

      I think it’s mostly about just having a neutral accent (as in no regional drawl or inflection) and clearly annunciating words.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The accent most Americans think of when they hear "posh British English" doesn't exist anymore either.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It really does mate

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Na. The kind of accent spoken by upper classes in the early 20th century is extinct. Mostly because of American cultural dominance and plebian Brit slang entering the general lexicon.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It has a name, the Trans-Atlantic accent

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Boston Brahmin or the Cary Grant

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The educated Bay Area Californian accent is the accent of the wealthiest Americans. If you hear somebody with what some people are starting to call the ‘Stanford Accent’ odds are they are wealthy or will be.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wrong
      breh
      like
      uhhh, just, breh, I can't even
      you know
      right
      breh
      ...lol, frick CA. The cleanest English, and most emulated by upper class and media, is the North West "accent" and articulation.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Go sleep on some heroin needles in your Black person autonomous zone.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    In the 1930s-1950s it would have been the Mid-Atlantic Accent. But in modern times, it's probably the General American Accent (the accent spoken by newscasters)

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Upspeak, vocal fry, "neutral" pronunciation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Which describes this

      The educated Bay Area Californian accent is the accent of the wealthiest Americans. If you hear somebody with what some people are starting to call the ‘Stanford Accent’ odds are they are wealthy or will be.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Mid Atlantic accent you see in old movies or radio shows.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whatever accent Batman's butler has.
    But really, classism is much less pronounced in the US than it is in the UK, so the effect is not as strong.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lol but it is, it's just that we are too stupid to realize it, and the upper class knows hiw to divert the proles' attention by making them fight over racism or other stupid shit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How come I'm from an upper class family and racist? Aren't we supposed to be above that?

        Na. The kind of accent spoken by upper classes in the early 20th century is extinct. Mostly because of American cultural dominance and plebian Brit slang entering the general lexicon.

        It's definitely is still a thing but diluted, that's mainly the diphthongs and the vowel at the end of the word "happy" are pronounced the same as standard English. I don't think it's going anyway, people are still learning it because of the prestige. And don't forget there was never one single variety. The boarding school accent spoken by old etonians is almost a drawl and very different to the learned variety that was taught for BBC and spoken more by women.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >How come I'm from an upper class family and racist
          Because you want to fit in here.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Didn't say classws don't exist, because there's always at least the working class and a capitalist class.
        /Classism/ is less pronounced.
        In the UK classes are like literal castes who, despite any material wealth, maintain illusions of privilege or lack of privilege.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    hrrm. I'd guess by "posh" you're not just saying "wealthy or educated, well spoken", so I assume it's meant to be an accent that is added on top of however someone really speaks, like "aaahh daahhhling yes we truly MUST get the crumpets mmyyeehhsss"

    Yeah I dunno if we have one of those. I'd agree with the mid atlantic accent if it wasn't something purely for actors and entertainers. Really you don't get it for the entire country, but there are regional """""""posh"""""""""" accents. Wealthy white Texans (actual texans, not transplants) really do speak alot like what you hear Buck Strickland talk like in KOTH. It's a "boss" accent around here, in the sense that everyone has had a boss that sounds like that, military officers from Texas sound like that. Hell you probably just start doing it once you get high up enough the food chain.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Jared Taylor,
    "Hu-white"

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It doesn't have one. They're all post-colonial plebs.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    New england/Bostonian upper class

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Theodore Roosevelt spoke with a variation of this.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    William F Buckley

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't that mid-atlantic?

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