Voiced Poetry thread

Eeeeeeeeek sorreeeeeeee that must be as bad as calling a Scotsman English!
lol - the Welsh are just as particularly testy, as I am, I'm sure. Actually, Annie, you do sound very upper class, I have no clue, though. As an aside, I recall a friend of my mother's (back in the 70's) a gorgeous upper-class Londoner (hard to forget) who articulated that she could pinpoint the exact location a person was from in London, based only on their accent. Is this true, or was she exaggerating? :)
 
lol - the Welsh are just as particularly testy, as I am, I'm sure. Actually, Annie, you do sound very upper class, I have no clue, though. As an aside, I recall a friend of my mother's (back in the 70's) a gorgeous upper-class Londoner (hard to forget) who articulated that she could pinpoint the exact location a person was from in London, based only on their accent. Is this true, or was she exaggerating? :)

Up to a point I should think it's true especially years ago not so much these days I wouldn't think. I've just asked my husband who was born in Islington (a part of London) and he reckons it's true because he could ..... so there's your answer!
I'm not upper class at all I was born on a Norfolk farm where my father was a shepherd and you don't get more working class than that. The sort of place where incomers never belong even if they've lived thare for 50 years but if I was to go back would belong immediately.
It's possibly because I've tried to ditch my Norfolk accent which if you haven't heard it is verrrrrry country bumpkin. If I can get this piggin' recording thing to work I'll do you something in my original accent or failing that send you something via email I'm warning you though I doubt you will understand a word of it!
 
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Up to a point I should think it's true especially years ago not so much these days I wouldn't think. I've just asked my husband who was born in Islington (a part of London) and he reckons it's true because he could ..... so there's your answer!
I'm not upper class at all I was born on a Norfolk farm where my father was a shepherd and you don't get more working class than that. The sort of place where incomers never belong even if they've lived thare for 50 years but if I was to go back would belong immediately.
It's possibly because I've tried to ditch my Norfolk accent which if you haven't heard it is verrrrrry country bumpkin. If I can get this piggin' recording thing to work I'll do you something in my original accent or failing that send you something via email I'm warning you though I doubt you will understand a word of it!
That would be cool. We Canucks do sound a bit American, but only in so far as American actors have taken cue from us in having no accent.

On our last visit back home to Canada, I told Lauren, "No one, and I mean no one I know says aboot." They say Ab-out, with a British lilt.

Wouldn't you know, the moment we get in an express van up North, the most talkative dude in the van can't help but articulate: We'll it's aboot time we got to moovin'!. Lauren laughed. I shrank in my seat. lol :kiss:
 
That would be cool. We Canucks do sound a bit American, but only in so far as American actors have taken cue from us in having no accent.

On our last visit back home to Canada, I told Lauren, "No one, and I mean no one I know says aboot." They say Ab-out, with a British lilt.

Wouldn't you know, the moment we get in an express van up North, the most talkative dude in the van can't help but articulate: We'll it's aboot time we got to moovin'!. Lauren laughed. I shrank in my seat. lol :kiss:

Especially midwesterners. Both east coast and the South have their own, as does Texas.
 
Especially midwesterners. Both east coast and the South have their own, as does Texas.

But your talking regional accents we of course have those but each part of London used to have it's own differences and to a certain extent still does but with it being so much of a melting pot now it doesn't apply so much
 
*does a little rain dance*

yay, i'm rewired for sound :D

which means i'll soon be able to butcher your poems as well as my own!
 
well, i tried voki-ing, but the wind's blowing my sky dish and cutting the signal all over the place. so i've downloaded a free thing, audacity, and am feeling my way around it though never used it before. it's a bit alien territory and i'm dora the frikkin explorer :D
 
I'd certainly be curious to hear more or less any of my poems read by someone else. I might especially like to hear some of my "girly" (Minervous) poems read by someone female.

Can't do that myself, y'know. :rolleyes:

Powerhouse - min.wav - 4.60MB

Let's see if this works for me. :)

No, broken up for some reason ( not really hic-ups) - back to the drawing board......
 
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Bugger - can't get it to accept my file with out breaking up. :mad:
I found that I needed to be sure the file was downloaded completely and buffered before I listened to the track. If it wasn't fully stored before playback then I stuttered.
 
lol - the Welsh are just as particularly testy, as I am, I'm sure. Actually, Annie, you do sound very upper class, I have no clue, though. As an aside, I recall a friend of my mother's (back in the 70's) a gorgeous upper-class Londoner (hard to forget) who articulated that she could pinpoint the exact location a person was from in London, based only on their accent. Is this true, or was she exaggerating? :)
I think Annie sounds upper class as well, but being American, I have no effing clue to what English accents sound like (other than hearing, oh, Ian McKellen or Helen Mirren, or Dame Judi, of course.)

Annie sounds to me, as cb said, "quite posh." Or Posh, like Spice:

victoriabeckham-posh-spice.jpg


though I know our Annie's blonde, and that gal is married to Beckham.

Their legs are rather alike, though. Woof. ;)
 
That would be cool. We Canucks do sound a bit American, but only in so far as American actors have taken cue from us in having no accent.

On our last visit back home to Canada, I told Lauren, "No one, and I mean no one I know says aboot." They say Ab-out, with a British lilt.

Wouldn't you know, the moment we get in an express van up North, the most talkative dude in the van can't help but articulate: We'll it's aboot time we got to moovin'!. Lauren laughed. I shrank in my seat. lol :kiss:
Especially midwesterners. Both east coast and the South have their own, as does Texas.
There are a number of regional accents in both the US and Canada. I remember a airport gate agent in Calgary whom I wanted to propose to simply on the basis of her lovely, lilting accent, which I think of (perhaps wrongly) as very prairie.

To me, Minnesotans sound vaguely Canadian, mainly because of how they pronounce vowels, though also a bit about the rhythm of their speech. Vancouverites round their vowels a bit more than we Seattleites (just 3 hours south), and say "a-gain" rather than "a-gin."

I've been told that the Pacific Northwest accent is supposed to pronounce our state name as "Warshington," but try as I might, I don't hear that in myself. I used to work with someone who grew up in Boise, ID, though and he most certainly pronounced it that way.

I like the regionalisms. They give additional flavor to language, and are in part why I am really enjoying hearing people's voices. Our Fool, for example, sounds very Midwest to me--kind of drawly--even though he probably doesn't sound that way to himself. Annie sounds extremely English, and as other have implied, very proper, or upperclass.

It's all part of what makes us, and language, interesting, I think.
 
I've been told that the Pacific Northwest accent is supposed to pronounce our state name as "Warshington," but try as I might, I don't hear that in myself. I used to work with someone who grew up in Boise, ID, though and he most certainly pronounced it that way.

That's quite prevalent down south as well.
 
But your talking regional accents we of course have those but each part of London used to have it's own differences and to a certain extent still does but with it being so much of a melting pot now it doesn't apply so much
Nods, thank you. :kiss:
 
There are a number of regional accents in both the US and Canada. I remember a airport gate agent in Calgary whom I wanted to propose to simply on the basis of her lovely, lilting accent, which I think of (perhaps wrongly) as very prairie.

To me, Minnesotans sound vaguely Canadian, mainly because of how they pronounce vowels, though also a bit about the rhythm of their speech. Vancouverites round their vowels a bit more than we Seattleites (just 3 hours south), and say "a-gain" rather than "a-gin."

I've been told that the Pacific Northwest accent is supposed to pronounce our state name as "Warshington," but try as I might, I don't hear that in myself. I used to work with someone who grew up in Boise, ID, though and he most certainly pronounced it that way.

I like the regionalisms. They give additional flavor to language, and are in part why I am really enjoying hearing people's voices. Our Fool, for example, sounds very Midwest to me--kind of drawly--even though he probably doesn't sound that way to himself. Annie sounds extremely English, and as other have implied, very proper, or upperclass.

It's all part of what makes us, and language, interesting, I think.

It is interesting. I remember coming across a book, probably an actors handbook, that helped in figuring out the accents of many NA regions and also a few European ones. I'm not an actor, but as a writer, I did find it intriguing. Unfortunately, I read the book before there was Internet. I'd love to get my hands on that book again.
 
I think Annie sounds upper class as well, but being American, I have no effing clue to what English accents sound like (other than hearing, oh, Ian McKellen or Helen Mirren, or Dame Judi, of course.)

Annie sounds to me, as cb said, "quite posh." Or Posh, like Spice:

victoriabeckham-posh-spice.jpg


though I know our Annie's blonde, and that gal is married to Beckham.

Their legs are rather alike, though. Woof. ;)

That gal is nigh on anorexic to my thinking whereas I most definitely am not lol the Avatar I have got up now was taken about 3 weeks ago if you can make out my size from it!
 
I found that I needed to be sure the file was downloaded completely and buffered before I listened to the track. If it wasn't fully stored before playback then I stuttered.

Thanks Carrie - the recording needs to run a bit, stop, restart and then it runs well. I'll try one of the others too, see how they do.
 
At one time, shortly after my year in England, people said I had a bit of an English accent
(Berkshire, near Abbingdon)
 
My accent isn't an accent - in that an accent is regional - we had any accent beaten ouit of our speech in school. I think I've picked up some Canadian over the years.
 
My accent isn't an accent - in that an accent is regional - we had any accent beaten ouit of our speech in school. I think I've picked up some Canadian over the years.
I thought you were Canadian? Ohh, new things every day! :D Tomatoes, tom-ah-toes, tomatsh (which, btw, in Portuguese is the equivalent to balls :D ). :kiss:

Eu adoro tomates!
 
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