Voice Post

[mimesere]

I am totally and completely stealing this from adellyna.

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.



eta: ahahahahaha. omg. I cannot turn off customer service voice.

Comments

Pirates and Steve the Pirate!

[rattlecatcher.livejournal.com]

I love the Pirates series - any book with long discussions of ham is okay in my eyes, and whenever you have a chance to wrestle with the Holy Ghost in front of a paying audience, you really ought to pick up a chair and start fighting.

Meanwhile, Steve telling the Girl Scouts that he'll see them in hell is, for some reason, a line I can't think about without giggling. And Pepper and Cotton, for my money, are the best sports commentators on the Ocho.

/soapbox

Meanwhile, thank you for the post - I've met you, so I've heard you, but I think this is a marvy idea that ought to catch on. I'm always curious to hear people's voices. And accents are always a funny thing - I never thought about the SoCal accent until I had a gf from the Valley who sounded, um, normal? - until an earthquake where suddenly the Val-speak turned on:

Ou mai gawhhhd, it's an errrthquehk?

I think that frightened me more than the shaking.

The regular SoCal isn't too different from what I grew up with, so West Coast is pretty much what we'd both be tagged by the linguists. Meanwhile, when I went to visit my buddy Aukestrel in Ohio, I landed in Kentucky, and we stopped at a store just before crossing the river into Ohio. The clerk had a massively thick accent that screamed SOUTHERN, and I was pretty much assuming KY since it's been a while since I've studied dialects. We then go over the bridge, Auk realizes we forgot to buy something so she stops at a convenience store. The clerk had no south in her voice whatsoever. Maybe half a mile from the state border, and the dialect shift was that sharp. Auk didn't say what I was thinking, which, logically, chances are the clerk in KY was from elsewhere, maybe this clerk was too... Instead, Auk just nodded. "Mason-Dixon line," she said.

Re: Pirates and Steve the Pirate!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

The Pirates! in an Adventure with... makes me giggle out loud a lot. And dude, Dodgeball is one of my favorite movies, just because it's ridiculous and absurd and there are people throwing wrenches. And it's mean while at the same time being filled with like, puppies and hearts.

And I honestly don't think I have an accent 95% of the time, but there are words or phrases -- oh my *god* is one of them -- where I can't help myself and it totally comes out as stereotypical socal mallrat. Mostly I just sound like a customer service recording.