I've never really noticed how different our language used to sound. Recordings from a century ago had trilled R, clearer vowels, slower speech, different L, sounds, with less of the sh sound overall. I always thought it was just some silly accent people put on for radio and public speeches, but apparently it was actually the high status accent. It was so uglyhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=0CDEntYt518
>>223982046I've never noticed how little colour is needed just to make those black and white recordings look so lively. They really just coloured their faces and the flowers