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<blockquote data-quote="O&#039;Rothlain" data-source="post: 290079"><p>Here's a point of view you may have not considered.</p><p>I know for a fact we do this in America, and from all the BBC News I've watched, I'd say you have a similar thing going on in the UK.</p><p></p><p>While earning my BS in Communications we were told to work on a non-regional, nuetral accent. I would see what nuetralizing affect that this has on society. I've just moved to Dallas, where 10 years ago you would have heard massive accents, but the younger generations especially here, sound like kids from anywhere. Urban areas especially are beginning to lose their accents and sound non-regional from the over exposure in mass media of nuetral accents. Take the show "Friends" for example. Not a single member of the cast had a strong New Yorker accent, yet they technically represented NYC. It has a trickle down effect on it's viewers.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, just a thought.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and the Irish accent is the lovliest, especially the Northern Irish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="O'Rothlain, post: 290079"] Here's a point of view you may have not considered. I know for a fact we do this in America, and from all the BBC News I've watched, I'd say you have a similar thing going on in the UK. While earning my BS in Communications we were told to work on a non-regional, nuetral accent. I would see what nuetralizing affect that this has on society. I've just moved to Dallas, where 10 years ago you would have heard massive accents, but the younger generations especially here, sound like kids from anywhere. Urban areas especially are beginning to lose their accents and sound non-regional from the over exposure in mass media of nuetral accents. Take the show "Friends" for example. Not a single member of the cast had a strong New Yorker accent, yet they technically represented NYC. It has a trickle down effect on it's viewers. Anyway, just a thought. Oh, and the Irish accent is the lovliest, especially the Northern Irish. [/QUOTE]
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