How come black ppl don't talk like this anymore?

[Akae Beka]

This man should read Audiobooks... This accent is also known as the translatlatic accent, white English South Africans had it too.
It was a way Anglo educated aristocratic people tried to sound more British/English without having to fake an Oxford /English accent.

So they developed this standardized way of speaking, letting certain words "roll".. Deliberate passes, even the gestures, the manner and tone in which they say "extraordinary" (Ex-Straw'd'nry).

I find all this stuff FASS'nate'n

I was going to say this as well. My pops who is West Indian but lived in London since the 50s had this type of accent.

At times, some Black America like Nina Simone's inflection would remind me of old Caribbean folks I grew up around

 

[Elle Driver]

It’s black people that still talk like that, family members of mine do.

 

[ThaRealness]

I never thought about linguistics like that.

But the younger generation speaks efficiently. I always respect it

I whip these kids around in my Uber. They speak concise





Bet

Im Dead

(If they under 16, they gonna say that like 5 times)

Ight

Take your time bro


Damn she was a prostitute

Holla at me on instagram

 

[BigMan]

What a weird thread and not even past pg1 and the Caribbean culture was blamed

You peeped it too lol

 

[ThatTruth777]

yall acting like you wouldn't clown a breh talking like this

 

[TEH]

I wish I was around and grown back then

 

[ThaRealness]

Long term effects of integration and influences in technology, education, and sadly, like breh was saying... having to be non-threatening and somehow apologetic for
your culture and style to succeed in advancing corporate America in the 80s.

Add the mix - systemic repression of Black business, school to prison pipeline, and gentrification - You end up developing an almost Bi-Lingual Black person that has to heave themselves into white culture reluctantly at first...but over time it becomes accepted and normal.

Destruction of business and community is my answer.

Thats an enlightening response. But you dont think some of it is just change over time (decades)?

I mean look at how white dudes talked in the 1950s

shyt was cold

 

[saturn7]

If you want to hear James Baldwin debate a demon, watch this. Baldwin castrates Buckley in this. They both have very interesting accents

Talking that straight shyt from 32 mins

"RFK said maybe in 40 years we might have a negro President"
"from the point of view of the man in the Harlem barbershop Boby Kennedy only got here yesterday, and he is already on his way to the Presidency"

"We've been here for 400 years and he tells us in 40 years, if you are good, we might let you be President".

 

[ThaRealness]

Black people don’t seem as sharp as we did back in the day in general.

At least you didnt go full neanderthal

 

[UpAndComing]

This is exactly how I talk. Very proper and clear, with a black base in my voice compliment it

Reading Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Newspapers as a youngster really helped all that

 

[Earnings]

Regional accents are still alive man.

Very true. Im laughing cuz the man make it sound rhythmic and cool like the old days lol. Least thats the way I read it

 

[O.Red]

Plenty of speech patterns have come and gone.

There was that "Black Aristocratic" accent that Roscoe Lee Browne, James Baldwin and others spoke with.

Chappelle sounds like Baldwin sometimes

 

[Jean Jacket]

Thats an enlightening response. But you dont think some of it is just change over time (decades)?

I mean look at how white dudes talked in the 1950s

shyt was cold

Preciate it... To answer your question - technology and modes of communication increased brevity and formalization across the board in my opinion.

Just like cursive is too varied and complex for today's society based on speed and ease of visual translation into other media.

I think that early orators such as Malcolm and Medgar were deliberate, sharp and way more eloquent than any white man of the time...hence how they resonated with all the world.

 

[NZA]

i think some of that is regional. probably that mississippi delta sound and transplants to detroit and chicago

 

[ThaRealness]

Preciate it... To answer your question - technology and modes of communication increased brevity and formalization across the board in my opinion.

Just like cursive is too varied and complex for today's society based on speed and ease of visual translation into other media.

I think that early orators such as Malcolm and Medgar were deliberate, sharp and way more eloquent than any white man of the time...hence how they resonated with all the world.

Yeah that's the real phenomena right there. Someone once told me, you cant build with complex units. If you use simple units, you can build something complex. This generation speaks smart and efficiently

Its just a shame they extend that philosophy to music

You gotta let complex ideas live somewhere