To Speak or Not to Speak?
Oct. 31st, 2003 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebnessIt would be cool to try out that voice thing on LJ, but I'm not too sure... for some inexplicable reason, I feel the voice thing is more personable than a photograph posted online. What on earth would you Americans or Aussies expect me to speak like? Would it make you judge me more as a person, based on my dialect?
I guess you Brits are pretty aware of what my accent would sound like, except for the part where it's such a mish-mash of various accents now that it's almost standardised.
For the record, only one on my friends list knows how I sound, and (I think) only one knows what I truly look like. Kind of revelling in the anonymity here.
And yes, I'm in a spammy, solipsistic mood. Humour me.
I guess you Brits are pretty aware of what my accent would sound like, except for the part where it's such a mish-mash of various accents now that it's almost standardised.
For the record, only one on my friends list knows how I sound, and (I think) only one knows what I truly look like. Kind of revelling in the anonymity here.
And yes, I'm in a spammy, solipsistic mood. Humour me.
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Date: 2003-10-31 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 05:07 am (UTC)I don't know... I mean, for example, when I read your writings, or Wiebke's...I don't think of it in an American or Australian accent... it would add further dimension to the writing to hear it, though.
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Date: 2003-10-31 05:09 am (UTC)One day I'll let you hear me reading slash aloud. ;) It's a narrative experience.
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Date: 2003-10-31 05:11 am (UTC)LMAO! I'm sure it is!
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Date: 2003-10-31 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 05:10 am (UTC)The accent thing fascinates me. I want to hear what you sound like, and Cesare, and Grace. Hell, I don't even know which part of America Cesare comes from, so I have no idea what to expect, although, again, conversely-- I always imagine her writings in a RP British voice.
I agree though... the voice thing is interesting-- it adds so much to what is being said, and would further emphasise the sheer geographical span of the LJ community.
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Date: 2003-10-31 05:24 am (UTC)D'oh...
Date: 2003-10-31 06:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-03 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 05:20 am (UTC)I have no more microphone. Even if I did the crappy Mac MSN doesn't have voice chat on it yet :(
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Date: 2003-10-31 06:20 am (UTC)*Remembers waitress at Cracker Barrel poking fun at accent*
"You're so British!"
Well, duh.
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Date: 2003-10-31 08:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 07:35 am (UTC)I can roughly guess what your voice would be like, but not entirely... no idea how strong/soft your accent would be.
Strangely though I have had a few people ask me if I was from up North just because of the words I used... aparently good proper girls from the south coast don't say things like "nowt" and "t'other" *shrug*
I'd love to hear all of the different foreign accents from evryone though.
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Date: 2003-10-31 08:34 am (UTC)I went to university in Lancashire, which softened my voice a lot, though I don't use Northern terms like "nowt" or "anyroad" or whatever.
Because I hate English being mangled, I speak well, but if I'm really angry, an annoying Merseyside inflection creeps into my voice. I make sure I pronounce words properly, though I still can't bring myself to use Southern inflections such as "grahhhs or "frahnce"... lol!
So you have a standard accent, Pige? For some reason, I imagine you with a Gloucester accent, though you're probably not even from there... ;-)
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Date: 2003-10-31 10:16 am (UTC)And yes, southern infections, oh the shame of it, it's all long vowel sounds like baaaarth not bath, and all those old fashioned posher pronunciations... though tempered with dropped "H's" and "in's" instead of "ing's"
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Date: 2003-11-03 09:24 am (UTC)Re: Nur :p
Date: 2003-11-03 03:57 am (UTC)You haven't seen the pic of me with David Dickinson, though. Only Pigeon's had the...er...dubious pleasure. >:-)
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Date: 2003-11-03 09:22 am (UTC)He is *so* orange-- it's not even funny.
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Date: 2003-11-07 06:41 am (UTC)I know what you look like and sound like! I got to give you squishes and giggle with you, etc. :D T'was great.
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Date: 2003-11-07 08:09 am (UTC)Though I think 99% of our conversation was composed of: LOLOLololOLOL!
Ah, the memories. :D
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Date: 2003-11-07 08:13 am (UTC)And what's sad is, not much alcohol was consumed. It was sibling-esque. *loves Becky and Vera*
WR!!!!!!
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Date: 2003-11-07 08:27 am (UTC)They certainly do!