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burntcopper) wrote2005-07-26 08:47 pm
burntcopper) wrote2005-07-26 08:47 pm
Accent and voice ponderings
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tenebraeli's ponderings on this.
See, I think of myself as fairly normal middle-class Berkshire Estuarite, having grown up here since I was five, and gone to a school which was a jumped-up snobby grammar school which bore a slight resemblance to an exam-results-obsessed St Trinian's. With possibly a hint of Cornish when I lived there, but only then.
Except I keep being mistaken for a Kiwi.
Of course, when I *listen* to my voice when recorded, it sounds nothing like I think of it. The answerphone is fairly flat. Customer service voice gradually becomes Tour Guide Barbie. Asking questions to guests at conventions brings out this *terribly* plummy voice, probably because I'm enunciating.
So, for all of those who've met me... whayt the hell do I sound like?
tenebraeli's ponderings on this.See, I think of myself as fairly normal middle-class Berkshire Estuarite, having grown up here since I was five, and gone to a school which was a jumped-up snobby grammar school which bore a slight resemblance to an exam-results-obsessed St Trinian's. With possibly a hint of Cornish when I lived there, but only then.
Except I keep being mistaken for a Kiwi.
Of course, when I *listen* to my voice when recorded, it sounds nothing like I think of it. The answerphone is fairly flat. Customer service voice gradually becomes Tour Guide Barbie. Asking questions to guests at conventions brings out this *terribly* plummy voice, probably because I'm enunciating.
So, for all of those who've met me... whayt the hell do I sound like?