Women Who Travel Podcast: The Innate Beauty of Accents, with Lake Bell

LB: All right.

LA: … it is really the silent G I believe is a lot of what often catches my ear. You have an, uh, romance to a language from expanding up or, you know, from loved ones associates or f- friends or some thing that you get like a Spidey-sense when you hear it. And if I’m walking-

Lake Bell: Yes.

LA: … down the street, uh, my ears will often select up the Turkish individuals-

LB: Yeah [laughs].

LA: … and I would not detect any individual else.

LB: Yeah, so you happen to be laser focused. Yeah.

LA: Yeah.

LB I assume that is truly appealing. I believe the- the Gs, which is… All right. Yeah, there- there are factors like, you know, my stepmother, she hailed from Philadelphia, so her entire loved ones had those people Philadelphia, um, like they say wooder in its place of h2o, so wooder. And that oo, that very little sound for me, I am like, I can place that, you know, I could be like reading, texting, listening to music and I can listen to it, [laughs] you know?

LA: Yeah.

LB: And I am like, “Oh, you Philly?” You know, like quickly.

LA: [laughs]

LB: Uh, “What element of Philly you from,” you know? So then, you know, uh, identical with, you know, from time to time when folks are striving to kind of disguise their audio. Like specifically in- in the British isles when they are like, their feigning a minimal bit additional southern and posh or whatsoever, but then you hear selected vowels expose on their own. Or, you know, alternatively of T-H, a tiny F, you know? Those sort of points.

LA: It is basically funny you mention that and it is amusing you outlined a Welsh accent, for the reason that my mother is Welsh and grew up in Wales-

LB: Hmm.

LA: … but appears just like me since my grandmother, who was Welsh, forced all her youngsters to communicate in a English accent. I consider mainly because she imagined it would give them some sort of greater begin in the environment if they experienced the Queen’s English instead than a Welsh accent, which is a gorgeous accent. Welsh is lovely.

LB: Th- this is the core of what I discover so curious in the caste program and the variety of hierarchical method that we’re however adhering to even in our modern times. We have our variation of generalized American information broadcast accent.

Speaker 5: That’s the see of the president, which is the perspective of the secretary of protection and there is certainly no explanation any person need to feel if not.

LB: This is what authority sounds like. This is what electric power and strength, and wealth, in a way, appears like, right? That I have a bone to choose with, since I believe that, me also, I grew up in New York and my mother, you know, it was just a different time. She grew up in Lengthy Island, but she sounds like a information media broadcast, alright. And she, when I would occur property and I would be like, “Ay, that guy’s kinda silly,” you know or whatsoever, or like, “What that,” you know, like, “I really don’t wanna discuss, you know, I really don’t wanna communicate to that man,” you know. She’d be like, “Um, no.” [laughs]