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

[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?