voice meme thing

[labellementeuse]

The only thing I like more writing about myself is talking about myself, so obviously this voice meme thingy was really fun! Ganked off deutscheami. T'was a blast.

Voice posts are fun, right? You get to hear funny accents if your friends are from far, far away. All we really want is to hear your voice, we don't care what you're saying. So here's a list of typical meme questions that would otherwise be boring, but when communicated aloud - well, it's entertaining. Answer these questions in your post, and encourage others with voice-posting abilities to do the same.


1) What's your name?
2) How old are you?
3) Where are you from? Are you living there right now?
4) Is it cold where you are?
5) What's the time?
6) What are you wearing?
7) What was the last thing you listened to?
8) What was the last thing you ate?
9) What was the last thing you watched on tv?
10) What's your favorite tv show? Why?
11) Quick! Find a book, or something with text on it! Flip to a random page and read some of it! GO!
12) What was the last movie you saw? How was it?
13) Do YOU think you have an accent? Talk about that."


I don't have voice posting but, hey, I have a sound recorder and I borrowed my mother's mic. File: on Sendspace and on Megaupload.

Comments

[sennical.livejournal.com]

:D That was cool (and I like your accent!) Perhaps I'll have time to do it tonight while putting off packing to go home....

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Do, do! :D

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Aha, that was neat. You have a great accent and a great speaking voice. I wish I did. I sound sort of like a muppet usually.

Nevertheless, I'll probably do this soon, though I'll sound terribly unintelligent compared to you :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

haha thanks! Actually, I had to do it twice because the first time I mumbled and spokereallyreallyfast, so, uh, not a totally honest representation. ;)

You should do it! (And I bet you don't sound like a muppet. Or unintelligent, duh.)

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Maybe not unintelligent, but definitely like a muppet XD

I will later this evening.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

When my sister did her world travels (a year in Canada plus jaunts across the US and into Europe) she said that Kiwis tend to speak english faster than most other people, and run their words together. So others would get very confused at her speaking what she thought were simple sentances, quite apart from the whole different vocabulary thing.

I tihnk that's neat ;)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've actually heard that before. But I talk unusually fast even for a Kiwi :P I mean, I was unintelligible even to me, so.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I'm jsut trying to get my computer to download it and give it a listen. Stoopid computah.

[amchara.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool! I love hearing the different non-North American accents from people on my friendslist. I really like the poem you read- and the Maori greeting was neat to hear. I agree with you on Pushing Daisies, at least at the moment, it's a little too quirky or 'twee' as you said. :)

You do have an accent to me, but that's because I'm on the flip side of the world, and you antipodeans sound strange to us. :P I think I'm starting to get better at identifying between Australians and New Zealanders- for you guys - is it kind of like the difference between Canadians and Americans (ie. fairly difficult to tell the difference) or is it more like the difference between British and American accents?

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

It's easy for us to hear that someone's Australian. Is that what you mean?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

It's really fun for me, too - we tend to think that all americans have the same sort of TV American voice, which is mid-west (IIRC. I did actually learn at one point about standardised English-English and American-English, I just forget the latter) but I hardly ever hear the same voice twice, so it's cool. (I mean, we "know" about Southern accents, New Yorker accents, and stereotype California surfer dudes; and also that Canadians are supposed to say "eh" a lot. FWIW, we say "eh" all the time. :P)

In re: Aussie/Kiwi, basically what disturbed_kiwi said but it varies person to person. Quite old, upper class Kiwis and Aussies can often sound quite similar, or people with vocal training (drama, singing) because that tends to normalise closer to Brit English. But otherwise I would never confuse an Australian with a New Zealander and Australian accents are pretty recogniseable to me, and differentiable even when they're being disguised - for example, Lucy Lawless on BSG (D'Anna) was putting on an Australian accent (god knows why! Ugh!) and when I watch Farscape, which has a lot of Australian actors and a few Kiwis, normally putting on an American accent, I recognise both. I don't think they're as distant as American and British, but they're not as similar as American and Canadian.

A handy hint for telling Australians and New Zealanders apart: ask them to say "fish and chips." Aussies say "feesh and cheeps," Kiwis say "fush and chups." :P

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I always thought that the stereotype of Canadians saying "eh" a lot was something that would apply to New Zealanders too, until I started with my current job, where I deal with many Canadians, and was surprised to find it's totally not. It's not really the same thing as the Australasian 'eh', the intonation's quite different and it's used differently in sentences. And they don't seem to think of it as informal speech the way we do. Very interesting.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

That is interesting, because I've watched one or two American shows with Canadians on them (you know because it's such a BIG DEAL like HAHA CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP HOCKEY CURLING) and the self-conscious use of "eh" had seemed to be fairly similar, eh! (Although I had thought our usage derived from the Maori "e" which IIRC means, basically, isn't it?)

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Americans do have a tendency to treat Canadians as rather precious don't they? Then again that tendency isn't limited to Canadians - I've seen English, Irish and of course Australasian people treated the same way.

I must admit I can't remember exactly where the 'eh' is used but, while it might sometimes be identical to the New Zealand usage, it struck me as jarring, so presumably it isn't exactly the same. And I'm not so sure about the Maori thing - don't Australians do it too?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

You have an Oakland too?? :D

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Hee! Nope, an Auckland! Accents are funny things, man.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, now I know how people who aren't me pronounce Auckland :)

[kheha.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is good times! When I first opened the file, I definitely thought you were sounding like a bird with all that Maori, yes indeed. Super neat.

And thanks for not spoiling Razor, btw. ;-) I'm still trying to wait for Saturday. *sits on hands*

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Aw, glad people enjoyed the Maori. If I'd thought of it beforehand I would have worked out something proper to say but I didn't. :P

I really enjoyed it! Good luck holding out.

[jessikast]

You have an absolutely beautiful voice. :-) And it makes me want to re-do mine, because yours sounds kind of on-purpose and my recording is very rambling. (Actually, I am going to do mine again. Hah! Take that, uneditable voiceposting!) I do like the inclusion of Maori - even if you're not using it in every day conversation, it gives foreigners an idea of how all our TV news and radio shows start! :-P

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D (now I can't tell if the post I just listened to was the first version or not. Hmmmmmmmmm.) Yeah, that was the idea - I kind of wished I'd planned ahead a bit more and, like, said my lj username? Because i hardly ever meet people who can say it :P And maybe a few more Maori phrases. ke te pehea koe and whatnot..

[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

I think you sound a lot like me. Our accents are very similar (surprise!) and we both have reasonably deep voices. I now want to record myself :D

Oh! We must catch up now that are both in Welly-town. Would you like to do lunch? Or dinner? Or any meal? Maybe coffee? Just let me know :D

[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

Oooo! And I've been told ALL the time that I have a British accent. Though not by Brits ;)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do any of the above! But planning will have to wait until I'm settled down in gainful employment, tragically. You're around for most of the summer, right? So heaps of time :D

[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

Heaps of time indeed! I'm back in Vegas this weekend and have your book package - thank you! Just so you don't worry, I already have book 7! Do you still need these back asap, because I can drop them off at your house when I'm done, if you like (and it's not too stalkerish :D)