• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    8 hours ago

    There is a generic American accent though. News anchors began using it heavily in the 80s because focus groups said it sounded the most neutral and hard to place. It’s basically a NoCal accent.

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      Nah, the San Jose local accent is distinctive and it’s not on any national news.

      The newscaster accent from the '80s was a real thing but it was upper-midwest. Tom Brokaw is the canonical example.

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          The precise definition and usefulness of the term continue to be debated,[8][9][10] and the scholars who use it today admittedly do so as a convenient basis for comparison rather than for exactness

          Thank you for agreeing with me, and providing sources to back up my point.

          To repeat my point,

          Stating that there exists a generic UK accent is as useless as suggesting there exists a generic US accent. The wikipedia article suggests that linguists by and large agree with me. So again, thanks.