How do you imagine other BDers . . . speak

[Mithadan]

I sound like Miss Piggy.

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Originally Posted by Mithadan

I sound like Miss Piggy.

And I bet you can drop-kick a talking frog through the uprights at 50 yards....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I don't imagine Fea with a New York accent - since she looks so much like one of my friends I imagine her sounding like her too .. so I am afraid that would be a Kansas accent...

I'm afraid I've never heard a Kansas accent... It's so odd to think of myself as sounding like anything but I do. I've looked all sorts of ways, mostly through hairstyle changes, so imagined appearances can be very close to the truth, but my voice is always the same, even if dialect changes. It makes me wonder the tone with which people imagine me.

I sound like Miss Piggy.

And Rimbaud is a frog... Kermit, actually. What does this say to everyone else?

[The Only Real Estel]

Eomer: Scottish accent, of course, but slightly slurred from visting his alcohol cellar over-muchly.

Posted by Mithadan:

I sound like Miss Piggy

Posted by Fordim:

And I bet you can drop-kick a talking frog through the uprights at 50 yards....

Just ask Rimbaud. Isn't that right, Mithadan?

[the phantom]

I'm afraid I've never heard a Kansas accent

In rural areas they have a countryish accent, but in most other places Kansans don't have much of an accent at all, but of course it sounds like they do to people from other countries.

If you are wondering what I sound like, keep in mind that I am from Omaha, Nebraska, where accents do not exist (unless transported by an individual from their previous location).

Here is a clip from an entry discussing "General American" speech-

The Telsur Project of William Labov and others examines a number of phonetic properties by which regional accents of the U.S. may be identified. The area that is most free of these regional properties is indicated on the map: eastern Nebraska (including Omaha and Lincoln), southern and central Iowa (including Des Moines), and northern Illinois (including Peoria and the Quad Cities but not the Chicago area). It may therefore be the case that the accents spoken in this region are deemed the most "neutral" by Americans. This is borne out in an article in the November, 1998, issue of National Geographic, in which the locals' "neutral accents" are cited as a reason why Omaha is home to a large number of telemarketing companies. Lincoln is home to several of these as well. Other notable media personalities from this region include longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and CNN Headline News anchor Chuck Roberts, both of whom were local news anchors in Omaha.

So, I am accentless.

Though sometimes I fake an accent to get better service at stores, or to get the attention of young ladies.

The Phantom does not speak - he communicates by telepathy.

You're partly right.

I have the ability to send and receive telepathic messages. Unfortunately, no one else can do it, so my abilities are rather useless.

[Boromir88]

Boromir88 sounds like James Stewart ....~Mithalwen.

"Now, now, now...yo-u-u lissen here la-yd-y. I-I-I don't want no trouble you heere?"

While Sean Bean is my favorite current actor. I can't deny I was fond of Jimmy Stewart back in the days, still am.

[Encaitare]

Originally Posted by Ka

Also, I find that Encaitare's voice carries a good quality of bold truth.

Awesome.

Of course, I would have to take out some of the 'Bostonian' accent as well, I've never seen Encaitare as being one in this atmosphere.

Not sure where you get Boston from, but I concede that I am more likely to say something like "Whaddayagonnado?" than "I'm gonna go paaaahk the caaaaah." I love Boston, though... so much history. And random statues of dead people. Those are always good.

I think that THE Ka has a low, soft voice, but when she's really excited, it goes higher pitched and she sounds like Tina Root of Switchblade Symphony.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Encaitare

Awesome.



Not sure where you get Boston from, but I concede that I am more likely to say something like "Whaddayagonnado?" than "I'm gonna go paaaahk the caaaaah." I love Boston, though... so much history. And random statues of dead people. Those are always good.

I think that THE Ka has a low, soft voice, but when she's really excited, it goes higher pitched and she sounds like Tina Root of Switchblade Symphony.

Amanda Palmer is a pure-bred Bostonian... caaaaah and all. So, I really can't imagine you with such a strong accent such as this, but somewhat of a low tone. It's confusing to try and write it out, but easy if I had a microphone or something.

Tina Root... Hmm. That's interesting. I'm going to try this out later on, it will be fun.

Something odd has happened to my laugh in the past two years. Now, when I laugh, it sounds like Mozart from Amadeus... I have no clue why, and it's kind of embarassing when your friends start singing "amadeus, amadeus!" after you laugh.

~ Aesthete

[Morai]

But I always thought getting it all wrong is half the fun.

I agree 'Nip',, because when I'm right, it freaks me out.

Bethberry: has that authoritive voice, say of a teacher or perhaps a secretary as she states "Sir, your appointment has been changed to three." If she sang, it would be somewhere between a second-soprano or an alto.

[Kuruharan]

Kuru is John Rhys-Davies.

-and-

Kuruharan and a deep and guttural voice that commands respect.

-and-

Khuru's voice is deep and a bit intimidating.

Ha!! I love it, so I’m not going to tell you how wrong you all are.

He's essentially, in all aspects, a dwarf to me with the lack of facial hair.

Yup. That is basically it.

because of a dash of generic Boring Smart Guy.

I resemble that remark.

Anyway…

To me The Barrow Wight alternately sounds sort of like one of the Nazgul (when he is Barrow-Wighting people) or this Air Force captain I knew once when he’s not.

The Saucepan Man speaks with the voice of John Cleese (his real voice, not one of his silly voices)

davem speaks with something vaguely reminding me of Michael Palin.

Squatter sounds like Eric Idle.

Rimbaud sounds rather like Graham Chapman.

Unfortunately, nobody sounds like Terry Jones or Terry Gilliam.

There, I believe I have all my Python’s covered.

Oh, yes…Mithalwen sounds like Carol Cleveland.

Estelyn sounds like Fiona (for some odd reason).

Mithadan does not speak in words…

I sound like Miss Piggy.

…for which I am suddenly grateful.

Bêthberry also does not speak in words.

the phantom and The Only Real Estel don’t really have a distinctive tone in my brain.

Boromir88 sounds like an anchorman.