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 (DIR) Post #AxjAtJThxk5SYAOnGy by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-31T11:40:41Z
       
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       Why do American local newscasters talk with the strangest cadence? I understand the mid-mid-alantic accent, but why do they always sound both amazed and bored?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjBeNBA1L4jdeABU0 by glent@aus.social
       2025-08-31T11:49:09Z
       
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       @futurebird fake amazed, truly bored
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjDEZRI0zMO2eX1qi by 5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf
       2025-08-31T12:06:53Z
       
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       @futurebird British lyrics, same feel:🎶They said that it was snowing,in astounded tones,upon the news.I wonder why,they're always so surprised,'cos every year it snows.https://www.sandydenny.co.uk/lyrics/noend.htm
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjEUwsEkl33JJVewy by fritzoids@mas.to
       2025-08-31T12:21:05Z
       
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       @futurebird Because they want to retain your attention (or grab it, if you've just switched the telly on) but also want to sound authoritative and in control.here's a video on how influencers change the way they talk to grab your attention:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XFqnwn0cLhE
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjFGFQJbUS0S40H8C by chrisnelsonsdog@mstdn.social
       2025-08-31T12:29:39Z
       
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       @futurebird wait until you notice that most of them talk out of one side of their mouth, and hold their face slightly crooked
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjGKRcGJUX3NZ9lWy by mcmullin@musicians.today
       2025-08-31T12:41:33Z
       
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       @futurebird What do you mean by mid-mid-Atlantic? What I think of as the mid-Atlantic accent isn’t the newscaster one. It’s a relic from a century ago, when upper-class Americans tried to sound half British. Like Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers movies, or in her own way, Katharine Hepburn. (Cary Grant maybe too, but really no one else talked like that.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjGzOGPgMgUr3SfTc by grischard@en.osm.town
       2025-08-31T12:49:00Z
       
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       @futurebird newscasters in other languages have a newscaster accent too. A friend who was a journalist would do it for us after beers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjHQ7B3JjxNgGhHfc by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
       2025-08-31T12:53:46Z
       
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       @futurebirdOh there's a guy on YouTube who does great videos on this kind of thing!!One example: https://youtu.be/4IJLyFAzYes
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjrfDg31uFwX8hGRk by leeglidewell@mas.to
       2025-08-31T19:39:55Z
       
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       @futurebird The series For All Mankind had real historical anchors reading alternate history stories. This was done a little before the current gen of convincing deepfakes, but still pretty realistic. That said, that cadence you're describing was replicated, but in a very uncanny valley way. It was a spooky.