Reference Thread: What's the Word for....?

[poppy1963]

What is the word for:

That silly accent used in the movies in the 1930's & 1940's? Kind of an English/New England accent...I never knew what it was called!


Also...did you know the word for "your drink streaming out your nose onto your computer keyboard when someone says something unexpectedly hilarious is....Snerks?? It's in the Urban Dictionary...has other meanings as well. Someone from _pink's "Lonely Hearts Thread" told me....LOL. That was one I'd wanted to know for a long time!

 

[Misty_Morning]

What is the word for:

That silly accent used in the movies in the 1930's & 1940's? Kind of an English/New England accent...I never knew what it was called!

ummmmm...pretentious?

 

[slyc_willie]

What is the word for:

That silly accent used in the movies in the 1930's & 1940's? Kind of an English/New England accent...I never knew what it was called!

Actually, I think it's called Bostonian . . . or maybe I made that up

 

[poppy1963]

ummmmm...pretentious?

lol...that it was! But, to me, it was also very FUNNY....like this guy. The actors in his comedy skits have it mastered as well!


Harry Enfield: Methods of Self Defence

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

What is the word for:

That silly accent used in the movies in the 1930's & 1940's? Kind of an English/New England accent...I never knew what it was called!.

Tony? def: high-toned, stylish

Rumple Foreskin

ps: MM, I do like, pretentious.

 

[floweringquince]

What is the word for:

That silly accent used in the movies in the 1930's & 1940's? Kind of an English/New England accent...I never knew what it was called!

I've seen references to a "Mid-Atlantic accent."
(At first I honestly thought that meant "the accent associated with people from the Azores Islands," but that never made sense in the context

Could that be it?

- Quince

(I'd call it a "Back-Eastern-Snobby" accent myself...

 

[poppy1963]

Actually, I think it's called Bostonian . . . or maybe I made that up

Could be...but when I googled, I got an article about it still being used...somehow that makes me think it might not be it...the "Boston" accent DOES have it's own characteristics! Thanks for a lead though!
And your av is beauuuuuutiful...lol.

 

[ElizabethWest]

Also...did you know the word for "your drink streaming out your nose onto your computer keyboard when someone says something unexpectedly hilarious is....Snerks?? It's in the Urban Dictionary...has other meanings as well. Someone from _pink's "Lonely Hearts Thread" told me....LOL. That was one I'd wanted to know for a long time!

Glad I could help.

 

[poppy1963]

I've seen references to a "Mid-Atlantic accent."
(At first I honestly thought that meant "the accent associated with people from the Azores Islands," but that never made sense in the context

Could that be it?

- Quince

(I'd call it a "Back-Eastern-Snobby" accent myself...

I wonder if it's still used! I can't imagine that...It was so "pretentious" and Back-Eastern Snobby...If we can't find a "lable" for it, I'm gonna stick with that one! LOL! Gonna check out Mid-Atlantic accent and "tony" as Rumple Foreskin suggested.

I know the WORD "tony" and it's definition regarding style...but I thought maybe that way of speaking had a "label" since it was so distinctive and pretentious!

Thanks all.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

(I'd call it a "Back-Eastern-Snobby" accent myself...

LOL. Some people I know would call it "yankee"

 

[purple_angel]

What is the word for:

That silly accent used in the movies in the 1930's & 1940's? Kind of an English/New England accent...I never knew what it was called!


Also...did you know the word for "your drink streaming out your nose onto your computer keyboard when someone says something unexpectedly hilarious is....Snerks?? It's in the Urban Dictionary...has other meanings as well. Someone from _pink's "Lonely Hearts Thread" told me....LOL. That was one I'd wanted to know for a long time!

If you are talking about Britsh movies its 'Recieved Pronunciation' - comes from the 'Queen's English'

 

[slyc_willie]

Could be...but when I googled, I got an article about it still being used...somehow that makes me think it might not be it...the "Boston" accent DOES have it's own characteristics! Thanks for a lead though!
And your av is beauuuuuutiful...lol.

I like yours, too

Glad to be of at least some peripheral help

 

[floweringquince]

If you are talking about Britsh movies its 'Recieved Pronunciation' - comes from the 'Queen's English'

I think it's not so much RP as an American-born imitation of RP; mixed with a mish-mashed imitation of the accents of all the US "Ivy League" universities; it's in American movies where everybody is just oh-so-tony and oh-so-"smart" (and usually smoking like chimmeys and drinking like fish, in cooperation with the US tobacco and alcohol industries.)

- Q

 

[poppy1963]

LOL. Some people I know would call it "yankee"

LOL! Some I know would as well... ...buddies tho! I mean...shoot...I'm from Pittsburgh. I don't sound like that but I "yank" through and through!

 

[poppy1963]

I think it's not so much RP as an American-born imitation of RP; mixed with a mish-mashed imitation of the accents of all the US "Ivy League" universities; it's in American movies where everybody is just oh-so-tony and oh-so-"smart" (and usually smoking like chimmeys and drinking like fish, in cooperation with the US tobacco and alcohol industries.)

- Q

THAT is a perfect description! Now...damn it! What is it called?!?!?!?! Grrrrr...it HAS to have a name...of some sort. I mean...the gossip columnists in those days HAD to have something to say about it all....and how exaggerated it was at times!!!

 

[rgraham666]

THAT is a perfect description! Now...damn it! What is it called?!?!?!?! Grrrrr...it HAS to have a name...of some sort. I mean...the gossip columnists in those days HAD to have something to say about it all....and how exaggerated it was at times!!!

I'd just go with 'pretentious' myself.

 

[gauchecritic]

lol...that it was! But, to me, it was also very FUNNY....like this guy. The actors in his comedy skits have it mastered as well!


Harry Enfield: Methods of Self Defence

that is definitely received pronounciation. Just like what The' speaks dont'cha know.