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The Voices of NEY
I was just thinking...we type to each other all the time, but we have no idea what each other's voices sound like. So tell me... do you have an accent from your particular part of the country? Are you loud or soft spoken?
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Re: The Voices of NEY
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Fun fact: BF has a Southern drawl/twang somehow. He's Canadian, and he was born in Alberta but he only lived there until he was 2 and his family is French... so I don't know where the country accent came from.
I like my actual voice, though. It's feminine but not really high, and I'm pretty articulate. I talk very fast, but I'm working on it.
I'm native to the Midwest, so I've got a lot of the Midwest dialect. I also pick up accents in a heartbeat, unintentionally. I tend to be loud, talk fast, and am pretty quick/deadpan with the comebacks. I also talk with my hands A LOT.
Funny fact about Oceana - I lived in SC for two years and picked up a southern drawl that took me almost a year to get rid of - if you get me drunk or I hear someone else speaking with a drawl, it kicks back in and will take me a good 2-3 days to lose it. My mom has told one of my BMs (who I went to school with in SC) that she's not allowed to talk to me until after I say my vows so I don't drawl through the whole thing. (lol)
Edit - not to threadjack, but I just caught sight of my ticker and actually said "holy sh*t" really loud in the middle of my office. Thank god spring break started today and no one's here. LOL
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[QUOTE]I'm native to the Midwest, so I've got a lot of the Midwest dialect. I also pick up accents in a heartbeat, unintentionally. I tend to be loud, talk fast, and am pretty quick/deadpan with the comebacks. <strong>I also talk with my hands A LOT</strong>. Funny fact about Oceana - I lived in SC for two years and picked up a southern drawl that took me almost a year to get rid of - if you get me drunk or I hear someone else speaking with a drawl, it kicks back in and will take me a good 2-3 days to lose it. My mom has told one of my BMs (who I went to school with in SC) that she's not allowed to talk to me until after I say my vows so I don't drawl through the whole thing. (lol)
Posted by oceana919[/QUOTE]
Same here. I have been told it's an Italian thing. Not sure if that is true but my entire family does it. FI makes fun of me for it.
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[QUOTE]I'm native to the Midwest, so I've got a lot of the Midwest dialect. I also pick up accents in a heartbeat, unintentionally. I tend to be loud, talk fast, and am pretty quick/deadpan with the comebacks. <strong>I also talk with my hands A LOT</strong>. Funny fact about Oceana - I lived in SC for two years and picked up a southern drawl that took me almost a year to get rid of - if you get me drunk or I hear someone else speaking with a drawl, it kicks back in and will take me a good 2-3 days to lose it. My mom has told one of my BMs (who I went to school with in SC) that she's not allowed to talk to me until after I say my vows so I don't drawl through the whole thing. (lol)
Posted by oceana919[/QUOTE]
Ditto. It's actually pretty dangerous to stand too close to me while I'm talking about something I'm excited about.
Just a little tidbit: When I was younger, I thought it was the "Chahlz River" because of the way my mother pronounced it. And I thought our kitten's name was "Chahlie".
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The Voices of NEY : Same here. I have been told it's an Italian thing. Not sure if that is true but my entire family does it. FI makes fun of me for it.
Posted by skyler1108[/QUOTE]
Really? because my BF's family is Italian and none of them talk with their hands very much. I talk with my hands all the time though, my friends tease me about some the hand gestures I come up with while I'm talking.
[QUOTE]Haha. Skyler and I commented on the same thing at almost the same time.
Posted by Elle1036[/QUOTE]
Haha I guess great minds think alike!
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[QUOTE]I'm pretty soft spoken, but I do get loud and chatty when I'm drinking. I have a 'Canadian' accent, and apparently <strong>I have an accent distinctive of my hometown as well (I think this is wearing off...I haven't lived there for 3 years</strong>, and it was never that bad). I don't like my voice. I think it sounds kind of nasal and whiney (when recorded), but it's probably not that bad (when I'm talking it doesn't sound too bad).
Posted by Beads921[/QUOTE]
Beads, is your hometown really far from where you are now?
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The Voices of NEY : Haha I guess great minds think alike!
Posted by skyler1108[/QUOTE]
True story. We also both have cushion cut moissanites with halos.
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My voice is somewhat low, I've been told I sound like Julia Stiles, and I think that's probably pretty accurate.
As for how I think of all of you talking, a few of you have the southern draw in my head, some sound like your from the bronx. Jenna I heard with a southern belle voice if you know what I mean lol
Oh wait, when I'm speaking French I can also mimic the French accent. It isn't my natural voice, but it's what I default to in a French setting.
[QUOTE]Oh wait, when I'm speaking French I can also mimic the French accent. It isn't my natural voice, but it's what I default to in a French setting.
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]
My voice sounds totally different when I'm speaking Spanish. I'd venture to bet it's something to do with how our brains process new languages, but I'll leave that to those who have more scientific knowledge of how our brains actually work. But I do know that several of my colleagues sound totally different when speaking in a different language, especially if they're not natively bi-lingual.
[QUOTE]I'm native to the Midwest, so I've got a lot of the Midwest dialect. I also pick up accents in a heartbeat, unintentionally. I tend to be loud, talk fast, and am pretty quick/deadpan with the comebacks. <strong>I also talk with my hands A LOT. Funny fact about Oceana - I lived in SC for two years and picked up a southern drawl that took me almost a year to get rid of - if you get me drunk or I hear someone else speaking with a drawl, it kicks back in and will take me a good 2-3 days to lose it.</strong> My mom has told one of my BMs (who I went to school with in SC) that she's not allowed to talk to me until after I say my vows so I don't drawl through the whole thing. (lol) Edit - not to threadjack, but I just caught sight of my ticker and actually said "holy sh*t" really loud in the middle of my office. Thank god spring break started today and no one's here. LOL
Posted by oceana919[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>Me too on both of these Oceana! I'm from upstate NY and went to HS with a lot of italians, so I talk with my hands. Then I went to college in SC, so whenever I talk to one of my friends there, the old accent kicks back in. </div><div>
</div><div>In general though, I don't have much of an accent, though I do pronounce elementary so that it rhymes with Carrie and have a bit of a nasally 'a' sound (Allen turns into Aillen). I also tend to talk really fast, unless I'm doing a radio or TV broadcast, when I have to conciously slow myself down.
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I have a California accent. No Idea I did till I went to Germany and they told me that I did. lol I talk with my hands a lot. But unlike the rest of you no one has ever made fun of me... I talk really quite in groups but with my friends I am really loud...lol
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The Voices of NEY : Beads, is your hometown really far from where you are now?
Posted by heyimbren[/QUOTE]
<div>The difference isn't so much location, but rather small town vs city. Here in the city, there are a lot of multicultural accents, and people tend to move around more. My hometown is small and contained (as in, people just live there forever, not much moving in and out of town), and people do actually talk slightly differently there (actually, they do everything slightly differently there). I can't really hear it in myself, but I definitely can in some of the people who've lived there their whole lives.</div>
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The Voices of NEY : The difference isn't so much location, but rather small town vs city. Here in the city, there are a lot of multicultural accents, and people tend to move around more. My hometown is small and contained, and people do actually talk slightly differently there (actually, they do everything slightly differently there). I can't really hear it in myself, but I definitely can in some of the people who've lived there their whole lives.
Posted by Beads921[/QUOTE]
Interesting. I really like that area at least. Hey I don't think I told you this, but BF actually lives in K.
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