Hearing voices!

[amilyn]

I just talked to tempertemper77! On the PHONE! (We live in the FUTURE!)

She has the CUTEST accent (especially when she talks to her kids! --all those glottalized mid-word "t" sounds and so many sounds I recognize as Estuary!) and it was TOTALLY AWESOME!

We talked about kids and food and accents and Bones and that story that bloodwrites is torturing us with and it was (

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[tempertemper]

*squees with you*

It really was very cool!!! LOL at my Estuary English - you are so right, I drop my middle 'T's all the time - it comes from living a long time in Essex.

Sophie was amazed after I came off the phone that I had been talking to Elisabeth's mum! She was wide-eyed!!

I certainly can "do that funky "ll" sound"!! And I will pronounce those words for you next time too!

It was totally totally awesome to hear your voice - you have such a cute accent - I am SO bad at identifying different American accents - other than really obvious ones...

Right, the shepherd's pie I was cooking when we talked is ready! Gotta fly...

[amilyn]

*grin*

*I* have a "cute accent". *grin*

I can't quite see what about my speech would merit "cute accent"...but I'm so entertained and delighted.

[imbri6]

Well, there HAVE been phones around for a long time, and we have been able to call England for quite some time now, but I assume that it's much more reasonably priced these days???

I *adore* living in the future!!!! Congratulations!!!

[amilyn]

MUCH more reasonably priced.

AND it can be done from my communicator not just from a dially phone wired to the wall.

The future ROCKS. If we regress at some point, I shall be very sad.

[wiliqueen]

I read about a year ago conventional pronunciation of the phoneme spelled 'll' in Welsh is falling out of use. Living language, baby!

[amilyn]

Not. Okay!

[tempertemper]

This is very true - unless someone is first language Welsh or otherwise well schooled in Welsh this happens - and particularly in South Wales where I live. In Cardiff, these 'll' are just ignored and pronounced as if only one 'l' was there - it's sad really, but if not for my dh I would probably do the same.

[wiliqueen]

It's sad in a way, but it also means the language is alive and evolving. That wasn't always a certain thing by any means.