antarctica research base by ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ (cc by-sa)
Mefi member chariot pulled by cassowaries posted How Scientists Working in Antarctica Inadvertently Developed a New Accent. A 2019 study of scientists over-wintering in Antarctica revealed subtle but measurable changes in the participants’ speech.
The Brox Sisters tune their radio
I'm working on a performance bit that uses 1920s diction, but there's something I'm missing. What are the elements of the popular radio voice that make it distinctive?
Some interesting answers to monkihed's interesting question, Linguists: what makes the 1920s voice so distinctive?
Styven Magnes : Speech balloons by Marc Wathieu (cc by-nc)
Getting hip with the lingo, on Ask Me: When did the phrase "Garbage People/Person" become popular? | Did people actually say "shwench"? | In words like normcore, What is the meaning of the -core suffix?
... and recently on the blue, D'ya get me, bruv?; a new London accent called MLE has emerged in the last few years | A Tart My Dears, A Tart – how British gay men used to talk, featuring Polari, the cult language of UK homosexuals derived from theatre and circus slang
talking again by mediamolecule (cc by-nc-nd)
From The Vaults:
How do you fake American?, 2008
... what if you're not an English speaker, and you want to fake-speak English, or more precisely, American? How does it sound?
And more: Imitation English, 2003
How does one speak "pretend English"?, 2005
Linguaesthetics, 2006
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