NationStates Jolt Archive

And they scare me.:D

The whole reason for this thread, is that when you read another posters message, do you imagine a specific voice for them? For example, I always read Yootopia's posts and hear them in Yahtzee's voice, because their biting wit and sarcasm are so similar in style. It makes one wonder if Yootopia is lying about his current location...

So how about it Generalites? Any specific voices for specific psoters?

Oh, and I always hear Fiddlebottoms as some rich British guy. I have no clue why.:D

I hear the voices of many Generalites...

And they scare me.:D
Diagnosis: Psychotic Disorder, not otherwise specified, with mood-incongruent features

:p

Diagnosis: Psychotic Disorder, not otherwise specified, with mood-incongruent features

:p

:tongue:

I've heard several voices, thanks to pervious "what do you sound like" threads and... other means, like ventrilo, msn, Skype, or actually meeting NSG'ers.

I don't attach a specific mental voice to the posters I don't know.

I hear them as voices inside my head....My voice...like im arguing with myself....Do you think this could progress worse?

You all sound like Morbo to me.

Except for Chumblywumbly. He's a Dalek.

There's no such thing as a British accent, CM.

And they scare me.:D

The whole reason for this thread, is that when you read another posters message, do you imagine a specific voice for them? For example, I always read Yootopia's posts and hear them in Yahtzee's voice, because their biting wit and sarcasm are so similar in style. It makes one wonder if Yootopia is lying about his current location...

So how about it Generalites? Any specific voices for specific psoters?

Oh, and I always hear Fiddlebottoms as some rich British guy. I have no clue why.:D
If you're hearing voices in your head, it's generally called schizophrenia and is Not a Good Thing(tm).

Diagnosis: Psychotic Disorder, not otherwise specified, with mood-incongruent features

:p

I'd like to claim that the more intelligent posters on here are just a form of 'thought withdrawel'

There's no such thing as a British accent, CM.

There is to everyone outside Britain...

Trust me, outside the South, nooone can tell the difference between 'Bama and Georgia...

There is to everyone outside Britain...

Trust me, outside the South, nooone can tell the difference between 'Bama and Georgia...

Surely in the US people know there is a difference between a Scottish and an English accent

Surely in the US people know there is a difference between a Scottish and an English accent

Possibly, Id wager the majority would still just call it British...

Id be more willing to put my money on more people telling the difference between an Irish and an English accent...

I'd like to claim that the more intelligent posters on here are just a form of 'thought withdrawel'
You need to take your haloperidol.

:p

You must kill them, kill them all

I wonder, why doesn't NSG have a Ventrilo channel? That'd be neat.

Surely in the US people know there is a difference between a Scottish and an English accent

There is? Mostly they don't pronounce R's on the ends of words, do their vowels a little differently and broaden stuff a little. Oh sure, there are other differences too, but that's mostly it for the Boston-England-Wales-Ireland-Scotland accent and its slight variation, the Scandinavia-Germany-Netherlands-Belgium accent, which is different mostly because of its cadence and some more vowel weirdness.

Likewise, most American accents sound more or less the same with only some flattening depending on regions and the ancestry of the person you're talking to. Its two variations are the Northern/Midwestern accent and the Southern accent, which sound about as markedly different as the other two examples above.

Lesser differences in accent are noticeable but not really remarkable enough to be considered different.

Also, all of you speak in my normal voice, except the women, who speak in my falsetto. I'm rather unimaginative.

You need to take your haloperidol.

:p

Don't want to get all hot and stiff though if you know what I mean ;)

malignant hyperpyrexia

(God that's the most contrived medical innuendo i've ever made)

There is to everyone outside Britain...

There's 3 different countries in Britain, all with a massive range of accents, if Hollywood actually showed any of them other than upper-class Southern and Cockney, the rest of the world would realise this.

Mostly they don't pronounce R's on the ends of words,

The Scots do, so do a lot of English accents.

Don't want to get all hot and stiff though if you know what I mean ;)

malignant hyperpyrexia

(God that's the most contrived medical innuendo i've ever made)
Haloperidol is cheap, y'know, unless you have money for quietiapine, olanzapine, risperidone...

(This thread is timely as I am busy procrastinating for my psychiatry finals tomorrow!) :D

There's 3 different countries in Britain, all with a massive range of accents, if Hollywood actually showed any of them other than upper-class Southern and Cockney, the rest of the world would realise this.

Yeah, but they havent, and they most likely wont...


Its unfortunate, but, thats the way the marketing ploy unfolds, ;)

There's 3 different countries in Britain, all with a massive range of accents, if Hollywood actually showed any of them other than upper-class Southern and Cockney, the rest of the world would realise this.

It's the same with Russian, Irish, French, German and practically every accent on earth. It's nothing to get upset about. I'm getting tired of this indigent "There is no British accent" jazz everytime someone mentions it.

And they scare me.:D

The whole reason for this thread, is that when you read another posters message, do you imagine a specific voice for them? For example, I always read Yootopia's posts and hear them in Yahtzee's voice, because their biting wit and sarcasm are so similar in style. It makes one wonder if Yootopia is lying about his current location...

So how about it Generalites? Any specific voices for specific psoters?

No.

Oh, and I always hear Fiddlebottoms as some rich British guy. I have no clue why.:D

It probably has to something to do with his old avatar.

It probably has to something to do with his old avatar.

That's what I was thinking.

It's the same with Russian, Irish, French, German and practically every accent on earth. It's nothing to get upset about. I'm getting tired of this indigent "There is no British accent" jazz everytime someone mentions it.

But it's not even like Britain's a country. A Cornish accent has almost nothing in common with a Glaswegian accent, for example.

The Scots do, so do a lot of English accents.

I'm trying to make a point here, see? You're supposed to say something indignant and snarky. Like "I see you've never heard of Scotland, then.", or "Maybe in your fantasy world, but where I come from we value things like facts and proof."

But it's not even like Britain's a country. A Cornish accent has almost nothing in common with a Glaswegian accent, for example.

Well, how much do you think the Random person from Mississippi's accent will have in common with the Random person from Minnesota?

And it still wont stop you from calling us both Yanks...Just like I fully intend to call the Glaswegian and Cornish guys Limeys, lol....

I dont think my screen name evokes much imagery about voices.

Well, how much do you think the Random person from Mississippi's accent will have in common with the Random person from Minnesota?

I've never heard a Minnesota accent, so I couldn't say.

I dont think my screen name evokes much imagery about voices.

More like Squirmy, Squishy sounds...that make me Cringe inside, lol...

I've never heard a Minnesota accent, so I couldn't say.

Exactly, so you would have to picture a random "American" Accent...

I have never heard, to my knowledge, a Glaswegian accent, so I have to picture a random "British" Accent to cope with it...

Exactly, so you would have to picture a random "American" Accent...

Or not picture one at all, then find out what one sounds like.

I have never heard, to my knowledge, a Glaswegian accent, so I have to picture a random "British" Accent to cope with it...

Glasgow's in Scotland, that might help.

I've never heard a Minnesota accent, so I couldn't say.

I've been to Minnesota... and didn't think the accents there were all too different from in New Jersey, for the most part. There were also people from various other parts of the world in the area -- Hawaii, Israel, Canada -- and they all spoke relatively normal, unaccented English like most of the other members of their social class. (Oddly enough, I was the one who seemed to speak with an accent -- although I've never noticed it, nor has anyone been able to place where it's from, so I could be just mispronouncing my words.)

Or not picture one at all, then find out what one sounds like.



Glasgow's in Scotland, that might help.

Possibly, but, if you had to describe it to someone...maybe in the context of someone's avatar, and your only clue was that it looked stereotypically American, what would you do?


And, it does, but it just makes me picture Sean Connery, itll probably be the image of Scotland in my mind forever, lol...

I've been to Minnesota... and didn't think the accents there were all too different from in New Jersey, for the most part.

Ive been up to the parts close to Canada, the "backwoods" areas...

Its hard to describe in text format...but, they would pronounce Minnesota more like, "Minnesoooota" and like the stereotypical Canadian "Eh" they would put the phrase "Don cha know" at the end of sentences...

Even for the posters I've met IRL, there's no voice in my head associated with their posts.

I usually conjure up this impression that you're all Microsoft Sam synthesizers... I don't know, it just makes it more bearable to read (especially if there's a large volume of pages). Note that I mean nothing personal by the second sentence.

The Voices I 'imagine' posters to be useing are the ones they sampled in the "what do you sound like" thread.

those that didn't provide a sample get the generic adult voices used in Charlie Brown specials.

Gift-of-God always had this low, sexy voice, slightly accented. I always pictured him speaking slowly as well, very measured, calm. He totally doesn't sound like that at all :D

Yeah, I always develop a mental image and a mental voice for posters I interact with enough to get a sense of their personality. Fass sounds exactly like I thought he would, except less angry.

There's 3 different countries in Britain, all with a massive range of accents, if Hollywood actually showed any of them other than upper-class Southern and Cockney, the rest of the world would realise this.

Strange. In the movies I watch I've heard a wide range of British accents (that we'd still put in the family 'British accents' in the same way we put Bostonian, New York, New Englander, Midwestern, Minnesotain, the various Southern accents, et al in the family of 'American accents').

Maybe you're just watching shitty movies. That hardly seems like a reason the rest of us have to stop using short hand terms when talking about wide ranging general subjects and instead make a tiring list of all variants because someone wants to see their name mentioned like a kid at the end of Romper Room, though.

Gift-of-God always had this low, sexy voice, slightly accented. I always pictured him speaking slowly as well, very measured, calm. He totally doesn't sound like that at all :D

Yeah, I always develop a mental image and a mental voice for posters I interact with enough to get a sense of their personality. Fass sounds exactly like I thought he would, except less angry.

You noticed that too?

Mostly, I go with whatever voice people have posted, if any. Cat Tribe sounds like Sam Eagle, though.

I always pictured Neesika with this sensual seductive voice... except she always says "aboot" instead of "about".

*runs*

You noticed that too?

Mostly, I go with whatever voice people have posted, if any. Cat Tribe sounds like Sam Eagle, though.

I wasn't surprised for long...I think I 'sound' super angry too here, but I don't actually sound like that.

I always pictured Neesika with this sensual seductive voice... except she always says "aboot" instead of "about".

*runs*

Bitch!

Bitch!

Muahahahahaha!

Snip

I wouldn't particularly mind if someone said English, or Welsh etc, it's just the British I have a problem with. I hate the entire concept of British.

I wouldn't particularly mind if someone said English, or Welsh etc, it's just the British I have a problem with. I hate the entire concept of British.
Well, I have a problem with the entertainment industry being referred to as "Hollywood" and concert musicians have a problem with compositional music being referred to by the name of its shortest era, but these are personal problems and tilting at those windmills at the slightest of provocation makes the cure worse than the disease.

Well, I have a problem with the entertainment industry being referred to as "Hollywood" and concert musicians have a problem with compositional music being referred to by the name of its shortest era, but these are personal problems and tilting at those windmills at the slightest of provocation makes the cure worse than the disease.

But the thing is, saying there's a "British" accent makes no sense. It's like saying there's a European accent, something like that. Scottish accents have things in common with each other, but not many with Welsh accents etc etc,

But the thing is, saying there's a "British" accent makes no sense. It's like saying there's a European accent, something like that. Scottish accents have things in common with each other, but not many with Welsh accents etc etc,

Actually, I shall make such a Claim, Im willing to bet I can tell if an accent is from Europe, rather than Asia, Oceania, North America, South America, etc...

Actually, I shall make such a Claim, Im willing to bet I can tell if an accent is from Europe, rather than Asia, Oceania, North America, South America, etc...

But that still doesn't mean there is such thing as a European accent.

But the thing is, saying there's a "British" accent makes no sense. It's like saying there's a European accent, something like that. Scottish accents have things in common with each other, but not many with Welsh accents etc etc,

You'll show that windmill, yet!

But that still doesn't mean there is such thing as a European accent.

I think there is in the same sense as the "British" grouping, although its not one accent, it can be put in a "European Accents" category...

But the thing is, saying there's a "British" accent makes no sense. It's like saying there's a European accent, something like that. Scottish accents have things in common with each other, but not many with Welsh accents etc etc,

It makes the same ammount of sense as calling the entire film industry "Hollywood" or all orchestral music "classical". Scottish accents share characteristics with northern English accents, which in turn share aspects with southern English accents, etc. It's a grouping for short hand.

You'll show that windmill, yet!

Don Quixote reference fails. Seriously, I can see grouping Scottish accents together with each other, under the label Scottish, the same with Welsh accents, and then English with North, South West and South, but trying to put all the accents together under British is ridiculous. There's more difference between a Swansea accent and a Luton accent than there is between most "British" accents and a lot of "American" accents.

Scottish accents share characteristics with northern English accents

I'll give you that.

which in turn share aspects with southern English accents, etc

No. Northern accents have a little in common with Scottish accents, quite a lot with Midlands accents, but Northern and Midlands accents differ greatly from South East and South Central (think standard English and Cockney, variants of those 2) and almost as much with South West accents. (Vicky Pollard, farmers etc)

I'll give you that.



No. Northern accents have a little in common with Scottish accents, quite a lot with Midlands accents, but Northern and Midlands accents differ greatly from South East and South Central (think standard English and Cockney, variants of those 2) and almost as much with South West accents. (Vicky Pollard, farmers etc)

To you, but to someone who hath never visited the United Kingdom...

It sounds really rather close...

I'll give you that.



No. Northern accents have a little in common with Scottish accents, quite a lot with Midlands accents, but Northern and Midlands accents differ greatly from South East and South Central (think standard English and Cockney, variants of those 2) and almost as much with South West accents. (Vicky Pollard, farmers etc)

okay...add in some more interweaving steps then. Eventually, you end up with an accent family. Same as how Bostonian shares aspects with Eastern New England, which shares aspects with New York, which shares aspects with Northern Pennsylvanian, which shares aspects with Southern Pennsylvanian, which shares aspects with Maryland, which shares aspects with Virginian, which shares aspects with Carolinian, which shares aspects with Deep Southern, thus creating the "American" accent family, despite Deep Southern not being at all similar to Bostonian.

It sounds really rather close...

No. If there were any decent videos on Youtube of different "British" accents, I'd show you some, but there aren't.

okay...add in some more interweaving steps then. Eventually, you end up with an accent family. Same as how Bostonian shares aspects with Eastern New England, which shares aspects with New York, which shares aspects with Northern Pennsylvanian, which shares aspects with Southern Pennsylvanian, which shares aspects with Maryland, which shares aspects with Virginian, which shares aspects with Carolinian, which shares aspects with Deep Southern, thus creating the "American" accent family, despite Deep Southern not being at all similar to Bostonian.

Ah, but it's different to that. There's almost a line where accents suddenly change heading North (or South).

Haloperidol is cheap, y'know, unless you have money for quietiapine, olanzapine, risperidone...

(This thread is timely as I am busy procrastinating for my psychiatry finals tomorrow!) :D

Three weeks until mine :(

No. If there were any decent videos on Youtube of different "British" accents, I'd show you some, but there aren't.

They were probably censored by the UK Government, :p

There is? Mostly they don't pronounce R's on the ends of words, do their vowels a little differently and broaden stuff a little. Oh sure, there are other differences too, but that's mostly it for the Boston-England-Wales-Ireland-Scotland accent and its slight variation, the Scandinavia-Germany-Netherlands-Belgium accent, which is different mostly because of its cadence and some more vowel weirdness.



Aye but I was thinking more that the Scottish accent (or the stereotype of it) has been portrayed in so many movies over the years (e.g. Fat Bastard :p) that it would have stuck in peoples minds as different from the stereotypically English.

Kind of like the difference people here would see between a stereotypically Southern US accent and a stereotypically Northern US accent.

I iz in ur head, talkin 2 u

Zer are vays to make me talk wizzout ze akzent!

I iz in ur head, talkin 2 u

*pokes with qtip*

No need. I can understand you with the accent.

To be honest, I don't really imagine any accent when I read posts. I read it with my own accent, and I don't really have any distinct accent in the first place.

It makes one wonder if Yootopia is lying about his current location...
I was for a day, so eh I'll change it.

And err I don't really imagine other posters' voices, no.

I don't imagine the voices of the NSG posters. I do wonder what CM thinks I sound like, though.

nope, people i haven't met or otherwise haven't that i know of heard their voice, when their words "speak" at all, it is in the generic voice inside my own head, essentially my own.

now sometimes, like if i'm reading a democracy now transcript, i'll recognize amy and juan's voices, or something like that, but pretty much most of the folks here, i haven't the slightest idea what any of them would sound like, and my mind is apparently uninclined to pretend that it does.

I gots accent, yes.

Unless I have heard a person's voice before I assign them the same place holder male/female voice depending on the age range I think they best fit, if I have heard their voice, I always imagine that voice.

It sounds really rather close...
Not really. I've never set foot into Britain, but one can clearly tell a Scottish from an Irish from various English accents. And you can in turn tell big differences between English accents themselves, except that I don't know where which is actually from.

It's just like saying there is an "American" accent, and trying to group someone from Kentucky with someone from Rhode Island under that label.

And I don't imagine any voices, just like for the most part I don't imagine people. I just get some sort of straight-from-avatar-into-brain telepathy thing.

I dont think my screen name evokes much imagery about voices.Wrongo ... it reminds me of a little ditty by William S. Burroughs (thanks CToaN)
a bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell.

Not really. I've never set foot into Britain, but one can clearly tell a Scottish from an Irish from various English accents. And you can in turn tell big differences between English accents themselves, except that I don't know where which is actually from.

It's just like saying there is an "American" accent, and trying to group someone from Kentucky with someone from Rhode Island under that label.



True...

But in the context of comparing it from one group to another, you can tell an accent from the Island of Britain from one in the United States, just like you can tell the difference between one in the US from one in China, etc...

One could term these different accents as, "British", "American", or "Chinese"...

Which is largely what I was getting at...