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 the Transatlantic Accent from 1940s actors is a whole thing in the world of linguistics but I noticed a modern day equivalent is definitely what I’d call Sportcasters Voice. How every baseball announcer stresses weird syllables. How comedians can adopt it onstage and immediately the audience knows the impression. 

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