Do you hear voices when you read posts?
 

Not the voices in your head from the schizophrenia, I mean... like... many of us have enjoyed Sundae Girl's videos, so do you read her posts in her voice, as if she was speaking?

And then -- for most posters, who don't do videos -- do you ever make up a voice to go along with their posts?

For me, it only happens occasionally -- like if SG posts something British, it may remind me to read the rest of the post in her voice. People I've spent time with in person I can automatically switch to their voice, especially if it's a distinctive voice.

If I make up a voice for someone, and then meet them or see their video, the voice is never anywhere near close.

I do, but I'm pretty aurally-inclined. But only once I "get to know" a dwellar, newbies don't have voices.

everyone here has a voice to me. sometimes it goes "blahblahblahblah", like tw's or something.

I like the sound of that

everyone has the same voice in my head and they sound a lot like Barney Fife.

Speaking of voices, I took my wife to hear Fran Drescher speak today.

Nobody in the Cellar sounds like Fran Drescher.

My imagination has everyone, whose voice I haven't already heard, speaking with a German accent except for Crimson Ghost ... he sounds French.

I've been told I sound like Sally Field or Sandy Duncan. There's an aural image for you. ;)

I hear voices when i read. Sometimes it's just my own voice. Sometimes it's a generic male or female voice, other times it'[s something very specific. Bruce and UT sound quite similar in my head. Monnie sounds like a manc in my head (but not a strong manc accent, just a hint), Sundae sounds like Sundae. That's an easy one.

Ali has an aussie accent. Like UT, I get occasional reminders of the acent in a post and from then on it's an aussie accent. Likewise Ducks and Zen.

BigV I imagine speaks slowly and with much thought. I hear a voice very similar to an old American friend of J's dad.

bri...I have an amalgam of various american actresses in my head for Bri. The kind that play cookie roles, like the chick nathan married in six feet under, or like something out of Thelma and Louise.

I have voices for Jim and Jinx but not sure how to describe them. I guess, Jim is like a faster version in my head of toad and bruce. jinx reminds me an awful lot of a chick I used to know in Bolton. I have to keep reminding myself not to give her a bolton accent. So...she's kind of like my mate but with an American accent instead of a Bolton one. Similar intonations and cadences. I imagine similar facial expressions.

There are more. I'll post them as I remember them, or as I figure a way to explain them.

I sort of hear voices for the regulars, but not all. They're probably all wrong except for SG whom I've heard on the phone, so that probably doesn't count for the purposes of this thread. I've heard UT on youtube, so I know what he sounds like, and quite a few others on their 'show me your house' clips.

It's very good to get the sound to go with the posts sometimes. Makes the poster seem more real. It becomes more intimate.

No.

That seems to be my experience.

I think my voice is kinda Floyd Landis if you haven't done the house tour.

For me, it only happens occasionally.

Only for a few dwellars I have gotten to know more than others and even then, only occasionally.

I have awful trouble keeping dwellars apart.

For the longest time I kept confusing glatt and Griff...both started with "g" and ended in double letters. Finally, once both had posted pics, I remembered which was which by remembering that the one with the small g was the tall guy in DC, and the Big G was the goat herding bike rider :D. right? tt= ttall ff=ffarmer

I don't hear voices - it's more like tone or inflection. The sound is generic, the personality is not, but either way it is only for dwellers with whom I am more familiar.

heehee, you would've been right in the UK. it was like standard Uni accent with flat vowels. But now I sound American to most Brits (and still Brit/Aus to most Americans), but it doesn't take me long back in the company of Brits for me to slide back a bit. I guess I mostly have American vocab, cadence and intonation with a Brit accent. :lol:

Yes- I make UT sound like Mickey Mouse in my head. :D

Sugarpop sounds like the good witch Glinda from the Wizard of Oz, to me. Not a bad thing...I always looked forward to seeing her in the movie when I was a kid. :)

I can confirm that monster and Beest both sound British to my ear, but your kids sound American--except for one moment, when Hebe said "pasta" as if it rhymed with "master" and it caught me totally offguard.

I was shocked to hear clodfobble's training clip. sounds just like those ladies in those training clips!

lj and ut sound like phillia's. Pure. Philly. Accent.

How should pasta sound? :)

Don't they say it with a short 'a'? A few people use that pronunciation over here, but mostly it's a long 'a' like you lot in the UK.

well...we don't all pronounce it with a long 'a' here. It varies regionally. I pronounce it with a short 'a'. Well...not quite as short as a full on northern accent.

Hmmmm...very interesting. :eyebrow:

here, the first syllable of pasta usually rhymes with car. :rolleyes: I would say the brits pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with fast, but as some yanks would give that two syllables (fay-ast) so that doesn't help :lol:

Clod, the "master" comparison doesn't always work either because some brits (southern pooftahs) would pronounce that to rhyme with American "pasta" and some (northern bastards) wouldn't :lol:

teh cellar: we can argue about pasta!


:fsm:

pasta rhymes with rasta ...farian

Well that's got two pronunciations too where I live. Some say the first a short and others long.

poor old Hebe, she didn't know we were dicussing her on here, but just said out of the blue "everyone on the bus laughed at me today because I said Vitamin (vitt-a-min) not Vye-da-min".

so I said "That's OK, everyone on the cellar is laughing at your pronounciation too" :lol:

Pasta: paw-stuh (rhymes with 'duh')

Pasta.

pasta sounds like Passed-a.

Pah-stuh

do you say paw and pour and poor the same?

and pah is like the da in daddy? or not?

(the two syllables of pasta rhyme for Brits -same vowel sound)

As in open wide and say ahhhhhhhhh - Pahhhhhhhhh stahhhhhhhhh

No.

Paw is PAW. P sound and AAAHHH sound.

Pour is poUr or pore. an ooooo sound. P-ooooo-r

Poor is P-oar (like oar with a P in front of it)

is this making any sense?

yup. but us Brits say them all the same :D Like p-oar

No... like the po in pot. Pasta pot.

Weirdo.

That's how Cman and Jim are saying it too... pahsta

pah is not the same sound as the po in pot. weirdo. pah is like path. weirdo.

of course, i don't say pot like you do, either

think "Harry Potter" from the movie....

maybe Americans just can't make that vowel sound?

"Oh, you're British, ...really?" is almost always followed by "Say 'Harry Potter', you know, like Snape does.....PLEASE"

Say it right or gtfo.

We wuz here first. It's called English for a reason.... :p

speak American dammit!

it's pah ... stah,

mahn stah

path rhymes with yeah

how can you mispronounce pot?

pot!

p o t
pasta

Neither do I.

I pronounce it as "weed".

For you locals, Griff sounds like John Facenda and UG sounds like Sandy Starobin. :haha:

No. That's the English. The Scots pronounce poor "poo-r".

Wha?
That's really making me laugh.

I might have to video myself saying Harry Potter for you.
I can't think of any other way to say it?!

Oh and pasta rhymes with Rasta for me too.
And not with faster, but with hasta.
Does that help?

Nice call on the two syllable Scottish poor, Limey.

coz she's SCOTTISH!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cRpIYpdjRY

Weirdo. It's pronounced "smoke.":fumette:

Chronic, mary jane, icky sticky, doesn't matter. :joint:

Twinkies™ are the greatest thing ever invented.....

mmm. I don't know if I can be on the same board as POT smokers....mmmm.....

It's OK, I don't inhale. :D

Well at least the drugs explain the voices...

[ahem] I'm ... um ....English and living in Scotland. Hence my acute awareness of the differences ...