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local hero

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why dont americans talk like they used to?
« on: January 09, 2011, 06:04:35 AM »
im quite perplexed by this,,, was just watching a film from the 50's today and it seems like as a country you all speak kind of gay nower days, they talked like men back then... any thoughts?
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2011, 06:07:49 AM »
the called the metrosexual nightmare
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2011, 06:15:51 AM »
Quote from: local hero on January 09, 2011, 06:04:35 AM
im quite perplexed by this,,, was just watching a film from the 50's today and it seems like as a country you all speak kind of gay nower days, they talked like men back then... any thoughts?
And you based this on a 50's movie...depending on what movie, plus nobody dresses like Carey Grant anymore, and of course kids get away with more than Dennis the Menace back then, and 'gay' meant happy, "funny" and "peculiar" meant "homosexual" or "perverse"

In terms of talking, there were a lot of films that had cornball slang (who says, "Aww geez!")
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2011, 06:16:12 AM »
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2011, 07:17:22 AM »
Jeepers Wally,what a crummy thread! LOL  ;D
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2011, 07:27:53 AM »
Quote from: wes on January 09, 2011, 07:17:22 AM
Jeepers Wally,what a crummy thread! LOL  ;D
Where's Whitey, Tim?   ;D
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2011, 07:37:49 AM »
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2011, 07:43:05 AM »
Quote from: dr.chimps on January 09, 2011, 07:27:53 AM
Where's Whitey, Tim?   ;D
He`s over Larry Mondellos house !  :)
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2011, 07:59:50 AM »
You can blame it on reality tv shows and whites kids wanting to be black.
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2011, 08:17:51 AM »
Quote from: Mr Anabolic on January 09, 2011, 07:59:50 AM
You can blame it on reality tv shows and whites kids wanting to be black.

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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2011, 09:10:50 AM »
how do you do?

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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2011, 09:11:10 AM »
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2011, 09:39:55 AM »
And why the fuck do some, albeit hideous, women wear their pajamas in public?  A high school science lab petri dish has more culture than the morons walking around today.  And Europes no better.  Nor England.  And don't get me started on fifth world islamic shitholes. ;D
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2011, 09:46:18 AM »
I assume you're refering to the actual language used, and in that case it has changed. As for as tonailty goes, as I understand it, actors, broadcasters and the like, used to have to use a certain tone to be picked up by the mic effectivley. That's why they "sounded different".  Listen to an old school basbeball broadcast, it's halarious seeee.
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2011, 11:52:53 AM »
A more rigorous grammar and high school education. Those things are being watered down and made easier almost annually to "make things fair". my take on it...
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2011, 11:55:01 AM »
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2011, 12:10:51 PM »
Quote from: sean on January 09, 2011, 11:52:53 AM
A more rigorous grammar and high school education.

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Quote from: sean on January 09, 2011, 11:52:53 AM
Those things are being watered down and made easier almost annually to "make things fair". my take on it...

Quote from: chaos on January 09, 2011, 10:07:50 AM
This reminds me of something I read once about the American education system. And that was that the influx of immigrants from South America that flood our education system are so poorly educated that the US has to "dumb down" our education so that the population of immigrants can "keep up" and graduate at the same  pace so they don't feel "left behind".


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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2011, 12:14:57 PM »
 It's globalization. We aren't isolated like we used to be to create our own dialect of English.
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2011, 12:18:33 PM »
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2011, 03:09:41 PM »
Quote from: wes on January 09, 2011, 07:17:22 AM
Jeepers Wally,what a crummy thread! LOL  ;D

You should go over to his house and give him the business!
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2011, 09:27:36 PM »
back then men were men, blacks tried to be respectable, and women knew their place.
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2011, 09:53:35 PM »
Quote from: JOHN MATRIX on January 09, 2011, 09:27:36 PM
back then men were men, blacks tried to be respectable, and women knew their place.

The good ol' days.... 8)
Well not for my black side but you get the point... ;D
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2011, 09:55:55 PM »
 Nowadays if you talk like John Wayne everyone will stereotype you as uneducated and trashy.

 You have to be politicall correct these days. You gotta take the bass out of your voice and talk very nicely. Yout must present yourself as educated and sophisticated. That's where the word is at right now.
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Re: why dont americans talk like they used to?
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2011, 06:18:10 AM »
Quote from: Parker on January 09, 2011, 06:15:51 AM
And you based this on a 50's movie...depending on what movie, plus nobody dresses like Carey Grant anymore, and of course kids get away with more than Dennis the Menace back then, and 'gay' meant happy, "funny" and "peculiar" meant "homosexual" or "perverse"

In terms of talking, there were a lot of films that had cornball slang (who says, "Aww geez!")

its cause america ran shit after WWII........germany and japan were crushed economically and we took ovr with our cars and exports

america pwnd in the 50s so we talked hardcore

now were overrun by gayism propoganda cause every lawyer and 'assistant' in DC is ghey and the media is trying to lighten out hearts and minds to when they come out of the closet :-*
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