Did everyday Americans really speak like they did on the radio? When you listen to old radio broadcasts such as the War of the World or this Dick Tracy radio feature, you can hear Americans having the kind of fast talking and inflections you associate with old-time radio:    Did people really talk like that? On the Honeymooners, you can see similar things when Norton speaks. It's not always as fast, but the focus of the topics, the way they interrupt each other, etc. is very different from today. Did everyday people speak like this?  In your answers, if you could link to some youtube videos or soundcloud recordings of how regular Americans used to speak in the past, and comment on the differences between that, radio and current speech patterns, that would be great.
Did regular Americans speak the way actors in the 30s and 1940s did? I watch a lot of old movies, and I've noticed that American actors of the 1930s and 1940s often spoke in a quasi-generic-posh-British accent.  Katherine Hepburn's accent would be the perfect example. It seems exaggerated, and I imagine it was not common off the stage and screen. What was that? Was it just an accent or was it a dialect? Did real people actually speak that way?
Error while writing strcat() using pointers $N(ab) \geq N(a)$ is not necessary for the ring to be euclidean The definition of euclidean ring in my textbook is 1) $N(ab) \geq N(a)$ 2) Euclidean algorithm works. However there is a note that the first condition is not necessary. There is a hint that we can choose a following norm: $N'(a) = \min_{b\sim a} N(b)$. I do not understand why it works. We need to check that euclidean algorithm still works with this norm.   I tried to do the following. If $a \sim b$, then $a = bx, x \in K^*$. Let $N'(a)$ be $N(ax)$. Let us divide $ax$ by $bx$ instead of $b$. We get $ax = bxq + rx$, $N(rx) \leq N(bx)$. Here I am stuck and have no idea how to continue. How do I return a variable from Google Maps JavaScript geocoder callback? How t show $f=g$ almost everywhere Robust method to extract "pure" part of a variable I am trying to perform a multi linear regression model:  $$y_i = β_0 + β_1x_{i1} + β_2x_{i2} +... + β_px_{ip} + ε_i$$  where $$x_{i1}, x_{i2}, ..., x_{ip}$$ are highly correlated with each other (VIFs can be as low as 5 and high as 30).  I am just wondering if there exists a procedure with the following properties:  1) extracts the pure part of each independent variable, where pure is defined as a part of the variable which is uncorrelated with other variables.  2) the pure part and the original variable should be similar to each other, whether similar is defined as moments such as mean and variance and correlation coefficient (ideally >0.90) Am I going to have trouble flying without my full name on the ticket? In my passport, my name is Firstname middlename1 middlename2 lastname, and in the ticket is LASTNAME/FIRSTNAME MR.  Will be a problem? I'll travel from Brazil to Bali, Indonesia and according to the agency I bought the ticket from, there's no problem and it's common.  The airline is Qatar Airlines and I have looked , which says that the passenger name can't be changed after the booking has finished.  But I don't know if it is a problem. If $|f(z)|\leq |f(z^2)|$ on the unit disk, show that $f$ is a constant function. Suppose $f$ is holomorphic in the unit disk $D=\{z: |z|&lt;1\}$ and $|f(z)|\leq |f(z^2)|$ on $D$. Show that $f$ is a constant function.   My Try:  I wanted to use Strong Maximum Principle, but failed to prove that $f$ is bounded on $D$. I want to try this problem in my own. Can anybody please give me just a hint? Difference between "irascible", "fractious", "irritable" and "atrabilious"? It seems that they can all mean "easily provoked to anger"  irascible：Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.  fractious：Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.  irritable：1.Capable of being irritated. 2.Easily exasperated or excited.  atrabilious：1.Characterized by melancholy. 2.ill-natured; malevolent. If $f(xy)=f(x)f(y)$ then show that $f(x) = x^t$ for some t Why does my material panel look different? Complete beginner here.  I'm trying to follow  tutorial on Anisotropic shaders, but my property panel looks nothing like the property panel in the tutorial.  For example, when creating a material, this is what his property panel looks like:    But this is what mine looks like, if I follow the same path:    I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.  How can I see the property panel shown in the tutorial? Why is the potential energy equal to the negative integral of a force? Turning water pump on/off using Arduino Uno R3 I'm trying to build a simple system to turn a water pump every 24 hours for 10-20 seconds. I have 5V pump. When I connect it to 5V, GND it works but when I connect it to pin 12 (or any other digital pin) and GND it does not work. Here's my sample sketch:  int led = 12;  void setup() {                   Serial.begin(9600);   pinMode(led, OUTPUT);      }  void loop() {   digitalWrite(led, HIGH); }   What am I doing wrong? What is the difference between "owing to" and "due to"? "Due to" seems more common than "owing to" in modern English. Is "owing to" simply an old-fashioned way of saying the same thing, or is there a rule to using it? If $\gcd(a,b)=1$, then there exists integers $x$ and $y$ such that $xa + yb = 1$ Comments saying "thank you" remind OP to accept answer Require v8 only contrib module with v9 patch What algorithm for a tic-tac-toe game can I use to determine the "best move" for the AI? Dispatcher.BeginInvoke: Cannot convert lambda to System.Delegate How do I use SSMS to compare Database 1 Table 1 against Database 2 Table 1? I have two databases - Database1 and Database2.  Both databases contain a table that has similar structure, exemplified as follows:   =========================================================================================== | ID | Name | PhoneNoFormat | DialingCountryCode | InternationalDialingCode | InternetTLD | =========================================================================================== |    |      |               |                    |                          |             | ===========================================================================================   However, due to some reason, (a) one of the tables in one of the databases has data that is not exactly the same as (b) that contained in the other table in the another database.  So, how can I compare Database1.Table1 against Database2.Table1?  I tried using the following query, but nothing happened so was wondering if I have to rewrite it:  SELECT MIN(TableName) as TableName,        ID,        Name,        PhoneNoFormat,        DialingCountryCode,        InternationalDialingCode,        InternetTLD  FROM  (    SELECT  'Table A' as TableName,           A.ID,           A.Name,           A.PhoneNoFormat,           A.DialingCountryCode,           A.InternationalDialingCode,           A.InternetTLD    FROM [D:\DATABASE1.MDF].[dbo].[Table1] AS A    UNION ALL    SELECT 'Table B' as TableName,          B.ID, B.Name,          B.PhoneNoFormat,          B.DialingCountryCode,          B.InternationalDialingCode,          B.InternetTLD    FROM [D:\DATABASE2.MDF].[dbo].[Table1] AS B  ) tmp  GROUP BY ID, Name, PhoneNoFormat, DialingCountryCode, InternationalDialingCode, InternetTLD  HAVING COUNT(*) = 1  ORDER BY ID Why taking components of a component of a vector is invalid?