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Lauren Bacall's accent
Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US as an adult. Apart from her being non-rhotic and consistently so, it seemed to me , her vowels are more short than long (American vowels, in my judgment, are very long more often than not). I've just found out that she was born in New York, and apparently has always lived there. How come?
Bye, FB
Una volta ho comprato un salmone all'Ikea.
Sono arrivato a casa.
Era da montare.
(citato da Alessandro "Il Patriarca" Valli su
it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)
Bye, FB
Una volta ho comprato un salmone all'Ikea.
Sono arrivato a casa.
Era da montare.
(citato da Alessandro "Il Patriarca" Valli su
it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)
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[nq:1]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US ... not).
- [nq:1]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall.
- She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US ...
- not).
- I've just found out that she was born in New York, and apparently has always lived there.
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[nq:1]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US ... not). I've just found out that she was born in New York, and apparently has always lived there. How come?[/nq]
The US professional stage in the 1930s (when
Lauren Bacall's career began) valued a neo-English stage voice as (a) equally understandable by all
American a
The US professional stage in the 1930s (when
Lauren Bacall's career began) valued a neo-English stage voice as (a) equally understandable by all
American a
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[nq:1]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US ... ho comprato un salmone all'Ikea. Sono arrivato a casa. Era da montare. (citato da Alessandro "Il Patriarca" Valli su it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)[/nq]
Because she is an actress and she is affecting the accent she likes.She sounds much earthier in old movies when she was
Because she is an actress and she is affecting the accent she likes.She sounds much earthier in old movies when she was
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[nq:2]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She ... New York, and apparently has always lived there. How come?[/nq]
[nq:1]The US professional stage in the 1930s (when Lauren Bacall's career began) valued a neo-English stage voice as (a) equally ... admired in the English theatre (and transmitted by some famous stars, e.g. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant etc.)[/
[nq:1]The US professional stage in the 1930s (when Lauren Bacall's career began) valued a neo-English stage voice as (a) equally ... admired in the English theatre (and transmitted by some famous stars, e.g. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant etc.)[/
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[nq:1]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US ... just found out that she was born in New York, and apparently has always lived there. How come? Bye, FB[/nq]
Bogart-Bacall syndrome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
Bogart-Bacall syndrome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
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[nq:2]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She ... New York, and apparently has always lived there. How come?[/nq]
[nq:1]Bogart-Bacall syndrome and an abnormally low-pitched speaking voice. Most of the men sounded like Humphrey Bogart and the women like Lauren Bacall. These cases represent a discrete clinical vocal fatigue syndrome, the treatment of which is patient educati
[nq:1]Bogart-Bacall syndrome and an abnormally low-pitched speaking voice. Most of the men sounded like Humphrey Bogart and the women like Lauren Bacall. These cases represent a discrete clinical vocal fatigue syndrome, the treatment of which is patient educati
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[nq:2]and an abnormally low-pitched speaking Most of the men sounded ... the treatment of which is patient education and voice therapy."[/nq]
[nq:1]At least he'll always have Paris.[/nq]
All Americans have Paris now. Here's the kindest thing I've seen anyone say about her yet:
(last paragraph of the review).
Liebs
[nq:1]At least he'll always have Paris.[/nq]
All Americans have Paris now. Here's the kindest thing I've seen anyone say about her yet:
(last paragraph of the review).
Liebs
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[nq:1]Tonight I saw Larry King's interview with Lauren Bacall. She sounded like an English woman who had moved the US ... not). I've just found out that she was born in New York, and apparently has always lived there. How come?[/nq]
Some other responses say she's faking it. I don't know that. She was born before WWII and there were accents in the Northeast (as you say, nonrhotic and certain vo
Some other responses say she's faking it. I don't know that. She was born before WWII and there were accents in the Northeast (as you say, nonrhotic and certain vo
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[nq:1]You're Italian? You probably have several markers that tell you an accent is British (non-rhotic, those vowels) and several that tell you it is American, and that set of markers just isn't quite complete enough to include accents like hers.[/nq]
I supposed she was English and had moved to the US, because of her changing too many t's to flaps, and some (A.) to (a
I supposed she was English and had moved to the US, because of her changing too many t's to flaps, and some (A.) to (a
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[nq:1]Maybe yesterday night she wanted to speak another way, or I was very tired.[/nq]
She also pronounced some r's something, but not quite, like w's, but this doesn't seem particularly British or American.
Bye, FB
If you knock on my door and I call out "Who is it?", you, as a normal person, knowing that I would recognize your voice, would say "It's me". If you said "It is I
She also pronounced some r's something, but not quite, like w's, but this doesn't seem particularly British or American.
Bye, FB
If you knock on my door and I call out "Who is it?", you, as a normal person, knowing that I would recognize your voice, would say "It's me". If you said "It is I
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[nq:1]None of us hear these old Northeast accents much, these days.[/nq]
I'm certain we've done this before, but although one usually hears of the disappearance of rural/obscure accents, there's a number of 20th- century "high class" accents that seem to have entirely disappeared on both sides of the pondial divide.
I don't think anyone speaks like Katherine Hepburn the
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