Different Voices

[Dr_Strabismus]

Funny, you look so much alike! Are you two related?

No, but funnily enough we do share the same lard-drowing fetish.

 

[Stella_Omega]

No, but funnily enough we do share the same lard-drowing fetish.

you've lost me friend, you've flown higher than i can follow...Come back, Doc, come back!

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

you've lost me friend, you've flown higher than i can follow...Come back, Doc, come back!

Okay: No, we're not related.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Okay: No, we're not related.

what's a lard-drowing fetish?

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

what's a lard-drowing fetish?

Ah, yes, I see why I lost you. I typoed. That's just what happens to me in conversations at parties: People come up to me and ask me what I do, and I say something like "I pork in a hospital", and they think I'm crazy.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ah, yes, I see why I lost you. I typoed. That's just what happens to me in conversations at parties: People come up to me and ask me what I do, and I say something like "I pork in a hospital", and they think I'm crazy.

care to share lunch with me? I'm making PBJ's

 

[Grushenka]

"I pork in a hospital"

Out of context, brilliant. I want to say it out loud. Wait. Ok, done. Felt good.

I don't think you're crazy, but then I don't know you.

Back to pork now.

 

[matriarch]

Ok. Don’t laugh.

My friends have informed me that I have several “voices”.

Apparently I have my normal voice that is kinda “girly” (this what they say and I do not believe it) and which is most useful when I get pulled over by the cops.

Then I got my pissed off voice where my intonation drops and becomes rather “gruff”.

Then I have my professional voice that I utilize during presentations and interviews. My friends are most amused by this voice. It is rather direct, much lower in tone, very punctuated and extremely “forceful”. I have also been told that it is very sexy and that I should talk this way all the time.
(Yeah, right.)

Personally, I think that this all a bunch a bullshit.

So, do you have different voices for different occasions?

Just asking…….

Of course we all have different voices.

involuntary or not, we all do it.

 

[rgraham666]

I have several different voices. The meds keep them quiet these days.

 

[gauchecritic]

did someone say Lithuanian?

Apparently I have a large variety of voices depending entirely on the individual to whom I'm speaking.

This is so pronounced that my wife knows who I'm speaking to just by the tone (speed, dialect, vocab) of my voice.

I'm often greeted with 'Is your Mum in' when answering the phone because the other person mistakes my voice for that of one of my sons. I usually inform them that she died a long while ago.

My two eldest lads have enormous vocabularies (compared to many of their contemporaries) so much so that at school the younger of the two was nick-named Mr Posh and the elder (at 5 years old) described as 'a proper little gentleman'.
Neither of these occurrences had anything to do with pronunciation or 'voice' (they both have broad accents like their dad) simply the fact that they 'knew lots of words'.

 

[starrkers]

Yep, for sure. I have several different voices. They range from almost proper English (my mum was a pommie war bride) to bush-Aussie (seriously Ocker), depending on who I'm talking to and what impression I wish to make.

 

[cloudy]

Yep, for sure. I have several different voices. They range from almost proper English (my mum was a pommie war bride) to bush-Aussie (seriously Ocker), depending on who I'm talking to and what impression I wish to make.

yep.

The deep southern drawl gets me out of speeding tickets.

The lady-fied southern accent gets results from businesses.

The one my friend calls "breaking ghetto" makes my children straighten up real quick.

 

[SeaCat]

Oh my yes.

My voice and vocal manner changes depending on situation and person.

In friendly one on ones I sound like a Cracker. (Lord knows where that comes from, I grew up in New England.)

In proffesional situations it is correct and very precise with crisp diction. There is no mistaking what I am saying.

In high stress or anger situations my voice becomes gutteral and often hard to understand. My father calls this my "Someone is going to hurt" voice. (My wife calls it the "Oh Shit" voice.)

Cat

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Oh, not only different voices, but you have different personalities with different people. Not only in different settings, like business, home, friends, kids, but with different people.

It's really kind of eerie once you tumble to this fact. You find you'll differ in how much patience you have, how aggressive you are, your sense of humor, even how smart you are (or are willing to be). Usually your friends seem to be the people who like the 'you' that you like best as well. What's weird is when you have people who like you for things you don't especially like about yourself. Moms are notorious for this.

But I always remember this when people start telling people to just "be themselves". Way down deep there really isn't any such thing. You're different when you're alone than when you're with someone. Which one is real?

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Which one is real?

Usually the one with the ulcer.

 

[MrsDeathlynx]

Not unusual at all, in fact I'm the same way. It all depends on what I'm doing and who I'm talking to. I definitely have a phone voice and a voice that I use to deal with customers at work. I definitely have a pissed off voice, then there's a few others. As far as accents goes it depends on who I am talking to, for instance I spent time studying olde english for the ren faire and I have to concentrate not to speak with the accent when I'm talking to an english person. Not unusual at all, unless you are monotone, not knocking people who are, just stating what is my opinion.