Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not for about 80 years…

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn’t really exist outside film and theatre.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I actually thought the comment I replied to replied to your comment about broadcast English xD

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    • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought it was native to wealthy families from Jersey/Virginia/Maryland. People that grew up in Martha’s vineyard.

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      • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Only if they copied the movies. Stewie in the Family Guy speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent which is why he pronounces his H’s etc.

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      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve always preferred calling it “trans-atlantic” to avoid confusion with the “Mid-Atlantic Region” of the US which is on the East Coast roughly from New Jersey down to Virginia, maybe the very northern Coast of North Carolina. Some people include New York/NYC but I can’t agree.

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