masks and voices
This week has just been crazy, between work, and other personal obligations suddenly evaporating free-time and down-time from our vocabularies.
I did squats at the gym the other night, and ever since, my inner thighs feel like I've been riding an invisible horse. Every time I get up, I feel it.
For some reason I've been thinking a lot about phone voices. At this point, I've perfected mine to a T. Warm without being (I hope!) unctuous, light without being breezy. A slight change in cadence from my normal voice. It's slightly disturbing - whenever I do it for extended periods, I have out-of-body experiences where I'm standing critically apart and evaluating the patter coming out of my mouth.
Some of it, I suppose, is just taking more care with my speech - I have a tendency to ramble, talk too fast, and jump off at odd non-sequiturs. Reining it in makes me sound a tad more coherent, I suppose, but at what point do you cross over from 'how one speaks' to an artificial voice? Is there a single voice with which I can truly be said to speak, or is it all context-sensitive? (I'm suddenly thinking of several people I am aquainted with who speak in cartoon voices. All. The. Time. At least when they're not at work - I wonder what it sounds like there?)
I did squats at the gym the other night, and ever since, my inner thighs feel like I've been riding an invisible horse. Every time I get up, I feel it.
For some reason I've been thinking a lot about phone voices. At this point, I've perfected mine to a T. Warm without being (I hope!) unctuous, light without being breezy. A slight change in cadence from my normal voice. It's slightly disturbing - whenever I do it for extended periods, I have out-of-body experiences where I'm standing critically apart and evaluating the patter coming out of my mouth.
Some of it, I suppose, is just taking more care with my speech - I have a tendency to ramble, talk too fast, and jump off at odd non-sequiturs. Reining it in makes me sound a tad more coherent, I suppose, but at what point do you cross over from 'how one speaks' to an artificial voice? Is there a single voice with which I can truly be said to speak, or is it all context-sensitive? (I'm suddenly thinking of several people I am aquainted with who speak in cartoon voices. All. The. Time. At least when they're not at work - I wonder what it sounds like there?)