It's been... that kind of day

[cleolinda]

HEY FRIDGE FIXER GUY I WAITED FOR YOU ALL DAY, WHERE YOU AT? MAYBE I'LL JUST INSTALL THIS PANEL MYSELF! I DON'T NEED YOU! I DO WHAT I WANT! unless it's on a day when I'm supposed to hang around the house waiting for you

So tonight I'm listening to the podcast to see how it turned out--I think it'll be released this weekend?--and see just how awful I sound. It's not actually the sound of my voice that bothers me, the way a lot of people get bothered--I'm more worried about my actual intonations and speaking patterns making me sound like a dolt. So there's that. I might get a linkspam up later (wayyyy later), but if not, it'll go up tomorrow.

(Hee! I have so much more of a Southern accent than I thought I did. Particularly on the word "my." Mah journal, you guys. Y'all are readin' it now.)

Comments

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Ooh, wait, you're doing a podcast? I missed something! I'll happily listen when it comes out! :-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. I have been v. v. vague and mysterious about it, but some folks asked me to guest on their podcast. It's like 1hr:45m at the moment, so... there will be lots of it.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I still have your mp3 of Novellas of the Night from way back. You sound fine.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Haha, that totally came out like I was saying "You sound FOIIIIINE." Which I didn't mean, but now that you mention it...

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

I'm exactly the same way in regards to my recorded voice. I like the sound of my voice, provided I don't speak the way I converse. In conversations I'm higher pitched, faster, and try to mask my accent--I've been told that the masking makes me sound like I'm from California, which would make sense since I grew up watching TV. When I'm on the radio, I try to pitch lower and slower and smooth my accent down, but not entirely hide it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tend to sound kind of Cali, if only because I have that slightly stonerish vocabulary ("Dude! That is awesome!") if the Southern accent goes and hides. And yeah, when I read (or record a reading), I tend to go slower and enunciate more clearly.

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

I miss my Southern accent...three+ years up in the land of Wisconsin has not been good for it.

Also, I tend to do the valley girl thing too. Particularly in overuse of "dude" or "totally".

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nooo, dun lose it! (Which part of the South?)

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

I am going to be sitting here waiting for your podcast..cause you can't have a worse speaking pattern than some of the history podcasts I have listened to.

:)

[scarolinagrl.livejournal.com]

No worries mate, I'm certain that your AL accent is no worse than my SC one.

I tend to attempt to clear-ly e-nun-ci-ate each syl-la-ble when I'm speaking to non-Southerners, and therefore they end up thinking I'm from Great Britain or somewhere else. heh.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

Awww, everyone seems to be having a crappy sort of day today. Here's hoping tomorrow is better. Make a cup of tea and try to relax.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? Is this the same as the vaguely mentioned internet project, or different? Vagueness confuseth me! :) Either way, COOL.

I'm sure you sound fine. I remember you did a voice post once (didn't you? I think? I know I've heard your voice at some point) and it was just fine. Southern and cute! :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nah, the vaguely mentioned project was a job I ended up not getting. : ) The few times I've mentioned this, I've called it "the podcast." And yeah, I did some phone posts from New Orleans. I'm not so much worried about my voice as I am saying something really dumb, but the parts I was worried about seem not to have made it in... so far.

[runa27.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, you at least have your own TV Tropes page, including being a Trope Namer! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CleolindaJones).

Which I think you at least partly noticed, given the recent posts I ran across on your JournalFen account, but did you realize you're the Trope Namer for the Littlest Cancer Patient trope? *is so totally utterly UTTERLY jealous*

I think southern accents are kind of cute, if it's any consolation either. ;) That, and at least you don't have a complete Frankendialect, like I do. I grew up in Florida, in a metropolatan area that has mixed accents (as opposed to the rare actual southy-sounding Florida accent), by parents from New York state (one from northern rural NY and the other from NYC). Apparently this leads to some of my pronunciations being odd, according to my mother, though until this was pointed out I had no idea it was anything but "neutral-ish". Apparently you're not supposed to pronounce "merry", "marry" and "Mary" the same way - who knew? Ah, and then there's my tongue always wanting to say "pronunciation" as "pronounce-iation".

Actually, my dad's accent (rural NY state) is kind of interesting. It's bizarrely southern-sounding at times, including phrases like "prick'ner" which is allegedly short for "pretty near", or in other words "very nearly" (as in "that guy just prick'ner caused an accident!"). And yet... it still doesn't really sound like a southern accent. I'm probably lucky I didn't grow up to sound like more of a hayseed, heh.

But yeah, I also grew up watching British comedy and reading British fantasy. So I actually say things like "bloody hell" and "git" (in fact, when my high school English class discovered the latter word but pronounced it "jit", it drove me up the wall), and like to spell "gray" as "grey". Like I said - Frankendialect. At least I outgrew my teenaged phase of inserting random and mostly grammatically incorrect Japanese into it though. XD

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Apparently you're not supposed to pronounce "merry", "marry" and "Mary" the same way - who knew?

Seriously, I was so shocked when someone first told me they had different pronunciations. I still cannot figure out what they might be--we Southerners just don't have the vowels for it, I guess.

Which I think you at least partly noticed, given the recent posts I ran across on your JournalFen account, but did you realize you're the Trope Namer for the Littlest Cancer Patient trope? *is so totally utterly UTTERLY jealous*

Hee--actually, foresthouse told me the other day that she started that for me. It is probably one of the great achievements of my life, to be honest. ; )

[runa27.livejournal.com]

ARRRRRRRGH WTF?

Did you see what's happening lately to the site though? I thought it was working fine and now I'm getting a message from the same goddamn hacker they had last night (at least he's no longer forcing you to watch YouTube video of ooooommmmmggggggg poverty sucks, which is about the most assholeish way to "present your views" I've ever seen. Sure, theft and vandalism are OK, just because you're trying to what, fight poverty? Yeah right. Try "shooting your argument in the foot"):

"a Message from Qabandi,

The PHPbb forums had nothing to do with it.... I'm still here.

I've received many emails claiming they were you and asking for the sensitive information, so I hope you understand why I couldn't email the vulnerabilities to you, since I didn't know which one was you.



Create a file in C:\apache\htdocs\ that has your email in it, and I will send you the info.
and the full story of how and why I hacked your website.



peace
"

Gee, how and why? How = you're obviously a nerd who knows how to do that kind of thing. Why = "you're a self-righteous asshole with nothing better to do, obviously".

Siiiiigh.

[julygreen.livejournal.com]

Apparently you're not supposed to pronounce "merry", "marry" and "Mary" the same way - who knew?

Wow, you pronounce all those the same? Interesting! I'm not from America, so only know the various US accents from TV.

Sorry to butt in randomly.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I've been working in radio for 12 years now (oh Jebus, really?) and I never get used to how my voice sounds when I play stuff back later. I hate it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think that's why I find it so interesting to listen to recordings like that--"Oh, so that's what I sound like." I think everyone's voice must sound lower in their own ears due to... acoustics? or whatever. So it's really interesting to readjust your mental image (...sound?) of yourself. And also, I sound a lot more deadpan than I expected. A lot like one of my aunts, actually.

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

I've lived in Tennessee my entire life, and I almost never notice accents, but I'm sure if I heard myself on a recording, I would hate my voice.

I can't wait to hear it, though.

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

(Despite my username) I have nothing but plain old Great Lakes accent, since my elementary school years were near Chicago and then after that I lived in Michigan. Apparently the Great Lakes accent is about the least pleasant to listen to, since we're big on Rs and stuff like that. Very flat. Boo.

I remember your voice posts from New Orleans! When you talked about finally understanding Blanche DuBois because it's so hot. (NOTE: the reason I remember this is not that I'm a stalker but that I saved it without labeling it so every once in a while I find these audio files and say "wtf is this" and then listen to them and go "oh, it's cleolinda!". Just so you know. Heh.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I only vaguely even remember what I said about that.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

When I started on the Summer Music Project, the plan was to record an intro and a bridging segment over a music bed (some non-vocal bit of music from the artist of the week, though I'm not 100% certain I could've found good bed tracks from, say, Econoline Crush). I was certain I'd hate my voice and that'd be why I'd have to give up the idea.

Turns out that my biggest problem was saliva. I get nervous, my mouth waters, so my speech (especially as captured by a cheap gaming-headset mic) ends up with lots of pops and clicks that require tedious editing out wherever possible. After a couple weeks of that, I gave up and resorted to typed introductions and a simple three-song mix.

I'm annoyed that I didn't get to play with the music beds, mostly.

[sneaky-minx.livejournal.com]

I know my accent gets thicker when I swear. Of course, even when it's not thick, several people up in Jersey enjoy repeating what I say in a faux accent. It can get annoying, but alas, the price I pay, I guess.

[tabithaspike.livejournal.com]

Maybe its just me, but this seems soooo absurd.

Someone wrote a Twilight Lesson Plan. I thought you might get a kick out of it.

http://twilightnovelnovice.com/2008/09/10/back-to-school-week-means-back-to-work/

[gold-tree.livejournal.com]

I grew up inside the loop in Houston, so any accent I have is very, very mild. However, I lived in Chicago for four years, and was told by many people, including strangers on the bus, that they could tell I wasn't from there. When I told people where I was from they usually accused me of not having enough of an accent.

There is, though, one word in my vocabulary that is significantly weird. My father, who is from West Texas, is mystified by my pronunciation, as is basically anyone else that has ever happened to be around me at Christmas time. The word is poinsettia.

Now, according to this (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poinsettia) and the rest of the world, I should be pronouncing it more or less how it is written.

Instead, I say po-in-settah. ("po" as in Oh!, "in" as in in)

People in East Texas don't even say it that way, I don't think. I've checked with my fiancé from New Orleans and I don't think they say it like that in Louisiana. I figured out why I say it that way: my mother says it like that, and she got it from her mother, who grew up in Florida but moved around the South a lot. I would someday like to find whatever magical land it is where they pronounce it like that.

[blackdiamants.livejournal.com]

I've said it like that all my life! I did half of my growing up in Texas [Waco/DFW] and the other half in Louisiana. I thought till now that everyone said it like that!

[blackdiamants.livejournal.com]

My accent seems to get thicker over the years, and I've developed certain trigger words [Looziannuh Star Power Activate!] Swayt tay, mawdee grah, and Pawluh Dane get me teased A LOT.