I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
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To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.
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