Things I did not realise
Apparently, when I'm sleepy/lazy enough so that my voice winds down to more of a slow burr, I get something of an American accent.
Analysing it, I think it's a dash of Tom Lehrer and a large chunk of my younger brother's teenage parody of Lee Perry's version of Wear Sunscreen as if narrated by a grumpy Hunter S. Thompson. Make of that what you will. There's a fair bit of drawing out of vowels - it has none of Lehrer's precision, but something of his cadences, if slower. It's also missing much of the pop and click of very pronounced consonants, instead curling idly from one word to the next. Not slurring, exactly, but definitely soft.
It's a lazy, lazy buzz. Quite fun, in a not-quite-awake muttering sort of way. Of course, I've been told in no uncertain terms not to lapse into it within hearing distance of a certain someone who doesn't like psuedo-American accents... or maybe it's just from me.
Analysing it, I think it's a dash of Tom Lehrer and a large chunk of my younger brother's teenage parody of Lee Perry's version of Wear Sunscreen as if narrated by a grumpy Hunter S. Thompson. Make of that what you will. There's a fair bit of drawing out of vowels - it has none of Lehrer's precision, but something of his cadences, if slower. It's also missing much of the pop and click of very pronounced consonants, instead curling idly from one word to the next. Not slurring, exactly, but definitely soft.
It's a lazy, lazy buzz. Quite fun, in a not-quite-awake muttering sort of way. Of course, I've been told in no uncertain terms not to lapse into it within hearing distance of a certain someone who doesn't like psuedo-American accents... or maybe it's just from me.