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[?]Robert »
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@mluisbrown@techhub.social @atpfm Not all of us ... but likely most. (I think it's the collapsing/simplification of sounds, a bit like you'll likely hear "offen" as the pronunciation of "often", with 't' sound being minimized towards nothing.)

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    [?]sayrer »
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    @robert @mluisbrown :) A choice. This is "diction" as described in the dictionary. We don't expect John Stewart to sound like Kendrick Lamar, but both are experts and leave some details out.

    merriam-webster.com/dictionary

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      [?]Robert »
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      @sayrer@mastodon.social @robert@mastodon.social Yes and no. I would say it's more dialect than diction, as there are points in favor of each. Names are ephemeral, but what is now called "General American English" was once called "Midwestern Broadcast English", because it was assumed to be the most generic form that all Americans relate to.

      (And a current web search shows no immediate results for midwestbroadcast in this context, but I know I have some references in old linguistic textbooks to this. Language is a living thing and constantly in flux.)

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        [?]sayrer »
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        @robert@cornershop.network @robert You are correct about the dialect you refer to. I speak it natively. Here, you mean the green "Midland" dialect that also goes quite far into what they call "Western". This is what Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, or Warren Buffett sound like. I think most people do understand it, if only for lack of slang.

        So, I had to learn "Boston", "Texas", "New York", "Upstate", "Chicago" etc. But the pronunciation detail is diction in each dialect.

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          [?]sayrer »
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          @robert@cornershop.network @robert A little bit of anecdata on this: when I moved to New York and Boston, people would frequently remark that I sounded "fake" or "from TV"

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