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Post by Elderberry Fucking Fanta on May 24, 2007 23:12:06 GMT
lovely poem. which poem is it? you sure you want to be told? I guessed after two listens. which is one too many I guess, according to Ol' Mike.
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Post by Elderberry Fucking Fanta on May 24, 2007 23:12:45 GMT
I have no mic. End of story. Not getting one just for you guise either! Come down in July. To London, I mean. Pay for my plane ticket?? Get a boat and start rowing?
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Post by bluearrangements on May 24, 2007 23:13:18 GMT
haha. i think the clue is in the last line
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Post by fabbit on May 24, 2007 23:13:42 GMT
lovely poem. which poem is it? you sure you want to be told? I guessed after two listens. which is one too many I guess, according to Ol' Mike. sorry, its some song. kylie minogue according to google. *shrugs* i think i have one of her cds somewhere....thats a shocker.
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Post by Elderberry Fucking Fanta on May 24, 2007 23:14:12 GMT
you sure you want to be told? I guessed after two listens. which is one too many I guess, according to Ol' Mike. sorry, its some song. kylie minogue according to google. *shrugs* i think i have one of her cds somewhere....thats a shocker. not really a shocker, it's Michael Bush.
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Post by fabbit on May 24, 2007 23:17:47 GMT
no, its a shocker that i have the cd.
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Post by Lauren on May 24, 2007 23:19:58 GMT
Pay for my plane ticket?? Get a boat and start rowing? No go. I have bad joints. A plane would suit me much better. I will just have to go on living without knowing what your voice sounds like.
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Post by Xteenuh on May 25, 2007 0:41:21 GMT
Just so you all know... I'm totally recording and upoading my voice tomorrow afternoon. SO GET YOURSELVES MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY PREPARED. I just gotta think of something good to say/read...
And Michael! Yay for such lovely British voices! For some reason I imagined your voice would be deeper, though... is it weird that I have everyone's voices imagined in my head?
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Post by newslang on May 25, 2007 0:44:15 GMT
I imagine everyone with American accents. It's bad since so few people actually have them on here haha. Well, more than there used to be, but still.
I'll record something sometime soon. Not sure what though.
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Post by fabbit on May 25, 2007 1:05:41 GMT
what kind of american accent?
boston accents annoy me the most.
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Post by newslang on May 25, 2007 1:10:53 GMT
Well, I guess I mean a general North American as-seen-on-tv type accent. Or Toronto. We don't really have a specific accent.
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Post by fabbit on May 25, 2007 1:13:21 GMT
hah! you don't imagine my accent, then!
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Post by tombland on May 25, 2007 6:56:27 GMT
Well, I guess I mean a general North American as-seen-on-tv type accent. Or Toronto. We don't really have a specific accent. Jesus. Will people please stop saying that the people where they come from have no accent? Everyone else invariably thinks otherwise because everyone has spent so much time with the people where they come from that the accent seems normal. But there is no such thing as a normal accent in which to speak a language. If you talk to someone from a different country and their accent sounds really strange they will be thinking the exact same thing as your accent is as different from the one they're used to as theirs is from the one you're used to.
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Post by ieatapples on May 25, 2007 7:21:42 GMT
I see your point, but I can't think of any other way to describe my accent either. Some people have it easier, because they can specifically say that their accent is from London or Liverpool if they're English, or however it goes there (forgive me if I'm wrong, my English art teacher only gave us a quick rundown of accents. I know that there are differences, though, and that you can classify them). Here, it's rather different. Some are easy to classify, like an accent from Brooklyn, Boston, the Southern states, or eastern Canada like Newfoundland. But everywhere else in North America, everyone speaks the same way, which is what Victoria means by not having a specific accent. It would be a pain in the arse to describe it as 'the accent found all throughout North America except for the South, Brookyn, Boston, Newfoundland and every other place with a distinctly different way of speaking'.
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Post by admin on May 25, 2007 10:41:52 GMT
It would be a pain in the arse to describe it as 'the accent found all throughout North America except for the South, Brookyn, Boston, Newfoundland and every other place with a distinctly different way of speaking'. Then I don't think there's anything wrong with describing it as a 'generic North American accent', although you should probably follow it up with 'I'm from [place in North America; I'd post an example, but I'm crap at geography, and I'd probably get it wrong]'. I have a generic English accent (although - being from The North - I do say bath rather than bahth; just for the record). It's the idea that someone doesn't have an accent that niggles me; not true, unless they're a mute. Also, bitches better start posting! Making me look all self-centred and stuffs! Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by tombland on May 25, 2007 11:51:00 GMT
I see your point, but I can't think of any other way to describe my accent either. Some people have it easier, because they can specifically say that their accent is from London or Liverpool if they're English, or however it goes there (forgive me if I'm wrong, my English art teacher only gave us a quick rundown of accents. I know that there are differences, though, and that you can classify them). Here, it's rather different. Some are easy to classify, like an accent from Brooklyn, Boston, the Southern states, or eastern Canada like Newfoundland. But everywhere else in North America, everyone speaks the same way, which is what Victoria means by not having a specific accent. It would be a pain in the arse to describe it as 'the accent found all throughout North America except for the South, Brookyn, Boston, Newfoundland and every other place with a distinctly different way of speaking'. Why, exactly, would you want to describe your own accent?
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Post by birdwhistle on May 25, 2007 12:23:18 GMT
Will people please stop saying that the people where they come from have no accent? Everyone else invariably thinks otherwise because everyone has spent so much time with the people where they come from that the accent seems normal. Seconded, though in less of an angry way Hah, Bushman is quite the stud for that reading. I nominate Ceylan next. I've heard hers, also via poetry. It's lovely. AND MARCUS TOO for that matter.
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Post by Clare on May 25, 2007 12:40:28 GMT
www.sendspace.com/file/aw1i7l^ It's got a gash file format (.amr, I think) but I dunno how to convert it and, if you've got Windows, it should play on RealPlayer. I'm reading from a book I really don't understand and had to record it on my phone, so it's general confusion all round. And I most definitely and completely have an accent, but I tried to tone it down into something recognisable as English for this recording.
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Post by birdwhistle on May 25, 2007 12:45:23 GMT
Ack, Clare! It's so musical and sweet.
Sighhh. I envy you all.
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Post by newslang on May 25, 2007 13:50:03 GMT
Well, I guess I mean a general North American as-seen-on-tv type accent. Or Toronto. We don't really have a specific accent. Jesus. Will people please stop saying that the people where they come from have no accent? Everyone else invariably thinks otherwise because everyone has spent so much time with the people where they come from that the accent seems normal. But there is no such thing as a normal accent in which to speak a language. If you talk to someone from a different country and their accent sounds really strange they will be thinking the exact same thing as your accent is as different from the one they're used to as theirs is from the one you're used to. I didn't say we had no accent, I said we don't have a specific accent. Toronto isn't like New York of Boston or something. Basically what I'm saying is if you heard someone from Toronto talking you wouldn't immediately say "that person is from Toronto." My opinion anyway.
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