Language is always changing. People speak the way they do, heavily influenced by what they hear. When I return to Canada or USA from The Netherlands, people notice that I am using very hard "Ts", and hissing my "Ss" [[Hard S), and so on. That lasts for a few weeks, until I am speaking again as a North American. I assume that people who listen to a LOT of music, might be influenced somewhat by the speech of the singers. But, usually, one's speech patterns are learned very early. Most of us speak the way our colleagues in school spoke. And we all first spoke as our parents did. I've spoken pretty much the way I've spoken all my life. Most people say I speak like their grandparents or great grandparents. I was raised by both sets of grandparents [[one set who spoke Dutch from the 1880s/1890s, and the other, who spoke Canadian English from the 1890s. I assume that most of you can tell from my writing that my writing [[and speech) is quite old-fashioned. We used about 40,000 words in daily speech then. Nowadays, we are told [[based on some scientific tests) that the average adult in USA now uses only about 4,000 words in daily speech. That's quite a big difference. Also, people's grammar is atrocious these days.
If you watch a Canadian film from the 1920s, you'd probably get a reasonable idea of how I speak. Although I've listened to a lot of R&B music and Soul music starting in the early 1950s, and continuing until this day, it hasn't affected my speech of standard English. However, when I lived in Southg Chicago [[very near to The South Side), and worked on The South Side for several years, my speech was very much affected by the people around me. While in The Ghetto, I spoke a hybrid between "Ghettoese" and standard English, just because most of the people I dealt with spoke that way. It was not a conscious effort to speak that way. It's just that one tends to repeat what one hears. That's why a lot of us use fopul language without even thinking of what it means.
After living in Arab countries for much of 15 years, I found myself saying "Ensha'allah" , Y'Allah, etc.or other sayings. If I get surprised, shocked, or angry, I might say "Oh Christ!" or "Jesus Christ! Or "Christ All Mighty!", only because I've lived in English-Speaking Christian countries [[Canada, USA, Great Britain) for considerable periods. I am Jewish! I do NOT want to be saying such things! I am always shocked to hear myself say those words. It only happens out of familiarity. I'm used to hearing people say that when they have those emotions. After I return from Germany, I often continue to say "O scheisse!" [["Shit" in English), for several weeks [[only because I had heard it a lot over a recent period). Or, I'll return from Denmark to Holland, and people will say I am speaking with a Danish accent.
In any case, I think people's main speech patterns were formed heavily from age 2-5, and further molded in their early school period, with only minor influences later. Most of those influences come from the people around them. One would have to be almost a hermit who listens to a fantastic amount of singing to have his/her speech patterns affected a lot by recorded singers. People would have to make a concerted effort to develop an accent similar to R&B/Soul singers to have much effect.
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