Re: [ARSCLIST] Edward R. Murrow "Hear It Now"

["Jack L. Palmer" <vdalhart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
   TV has eliminated much of the regional accents in America.  Those that 
are left are not near as pronounced as they were years ago.  As for the more 
refined speech I think the loss of that is due to the fact that most people 
speak faster today than they used to jamming words together until a sentence 
becomes just one word.       Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Edward R. Murrow "Hear It Now"


Also, it's fascinating to hear the actual
> voices of both historic figures and ordinary people of those days. To my
> ears, the regional accents of America were more pronounced back then, and
> the average person had a more refined and clearer way of speaking.
>
> If someone has a pile of transcriptions of these shows lying around
> somewhere, let's talk about getting them digitized. I can and will help.
>
> Also, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
>
> -- Tom Fine