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?
Huge congratulations to longtime Metafilter member and sociolinguist iamkimiam for completing her PhD disstertation, which grew from a simple question—just how the hell do you pronounce 'mefi'?—into a 250 page study of community practice and linguistic enregisterment.
MeFite iamkimiam has published her research on how MeFites pronounce MetaFilter, and of course we discuss it in MetaTalk.
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