Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:34     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:Maya Angelou had a posh accent.


See my post at 22.33.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:33     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No. Americans don't use the word "posh" anyway. In every region of the country there are wealthy people, and they usually have the regional accents of where they live (unless they're transplants)... Southern accents, New England accents, New York, California, Midwest etc.


My parents are both white southerners from the same town. They and their families have very different accents from each other because my dad was upper class and my mom was poor and country.



Also, you see the same thing among African Americans in the same town. Some will speak with what I consider more of a black upper class accent. They own the funeral homes or are sometimes educators. Their accent is more like my dads. Then there are black people whose accents are more country.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:32     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yep, like the Kennedys and FDR spoke. It's a WASPy northeastern boarding school accent.



Yes. This is the only right answer, and it's really almost non-applicable anymore.


+2
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:31     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:No. Americans don't use the word "posh" anyway. In every region of the country there are wealthy people, and they usually have the regional accents of where they live (unless they're transplants)... Southern accents, New England accents, New York, California, Midwest etc.


My parents are both white southerners from the same town. They and their families have very different accents from each other because my dad was upper class and my mom was poor and country.

Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:29     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:Maya Angelou had a posh accent.


Doctor Maya Angelou
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:23     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Now as a New Yorker, the thought that anyone could confuse a member of the Trump family as anything approaching “High Society” is laughable.

The Trump women with their body-con dresses stretched over gigantic man-made boobs as if the clothes were spray painted on seem to take their fashion tips from Russian prostitutes.

And ex-president Trump with the dyed blond comb over, orange makeup and a rude, vulgar manner of speaking doesn’t exactly bring to mind high society. Why should it? We all know he is a grifter and a con man….he and his family look exactly like what they are.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 21:51     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Maya Angelou had a posh accent.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 21:48     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
WASP=White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant
So as such, the Kennedy’s, though educated at the top prep-schools and at Harvard were
Catholics of Irish origin, therefore they were NOT WASPS.
Neither was the beautiful Grace Kelly of Philadelphia considered a WASP. Despite her refined speaking voice and genteel education and despite the fact she became Princess Grace after marrying Prince Renier (sp?) of Monaco, she was never a WASP. Who cares? She was of Irish Catholic ancestry.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 06:42     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yep, like the Kennedys and FDR spoke. It's a WASPy northeastern boarding school accent.


Kennedys are not WASPs



Yes, but they spoke like WASPs and they lived in that world.


They did not live in that world. They lived in the world of elite Catholics. The two were separate.


Exactly. Read Stephen Birmingham's Lace Curtain. They didn't event have the WASP-y accent; that's Larchmont Lockjaw, more similar to Jackie's accent.


I just caught the end of the movie about Jackie starring Natalie Portman and was struck by her strong accent.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 06:36     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
There is no such thing as a "posh" accent in the United States as the British have in terms of received pronunciation. Yes, at one time the so-called Middle Atlantic accent that was learned in Northeast prep schools was the closest thing to it, but it has long been abandoned.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 05:51     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Midatlantic is kind of posh
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 21:52     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Boy, I guess it's still fashionable and acceptable to be prejudiced against Irish Catholics and Southerners.


PP, we are just stating facts, not condoning it. When JFK was growing up that is how Catholics were treated. My family also faced discrimination as my Dad ( graduated number 1 from University of Penn law school ) couldn't get a job because he was Catholic.


How could people tell someone's religion back then for that sort of thing? Was it based on last names?


Yes. And appearance. Someone who is 100% Irish is easily recognizable as such.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 21:38     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mid-Atlantic English or Harvard Lockjaw (aka Yale Lockjaw).


this

end thread.


This +1,000,000, c.f., Charles Emerson Winchester III.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 21:36     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DD has one but she thinks it's a remnant of a speech impediment. She gets asked constantly where she is from. Her accent is so beautiful. Most people guess someplace in Europe. Lol


What is her accent like?
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 19:34     Subject: "Posh" American accent?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I a lot and Anne Hathaway are two young people who have this accent. There are more but these came to mind. It's a manhttan born and raised, private school and possibly diction/elocution lessons.


Ivanka Trump**


Yoga instructor voice with a 5th grade vocabulary who using the same 6 descriptors over and over is "posh"? lol

There's a reason she had to TRANSFER into Wharton even though her dad is a billionaire alum. Vapid plastic bimbo.


You're an idiot. Take it to the politics thread.


NP-not an idiot.

FACT: Ivanka IS a vapid, plastic, bimbo.