Voicepost! LOLmerican Accent Quiz

[ladyfoxxx]

So mizubyte did a voice post of her doing an American Accent quiz where you answer questions about your pronunciation and the quiz gods try to figure out where you are from. Obviously I am not American, but the pull of the quiz was too much, so I decided to do it anyway, just to see what might happen.

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Comments

[annemaris]

Lollllllllllllllllllllllllll, I totally cracked up along with you when you read "North Jersey". Oh maaan.

Oh my god, your laugh is ADORABLE.

(Oh my god, WORD on Thames. Seriously.)

[ladyfoxxx]

IT WAS VERY AMUSING. Oh god I was CRYING with laughter over that, I don't even know how it was so funny.

(YES. I don't UNDERSTAND how Thames could be TEMMS. I mean WTF. Weirdo English folk.)

[ladyfoxxx]

HEY YOU OVER THERE, STOP BEING RIGHT SO MUCH.

(Heee, thank you! That is very interesting.)

[shinetheway]

a) I got the "Don" reference, lol.

b) a Kiwi here in the office pronounces "pen" as "pin" and "pin" as "pen" :D

[shinetheway]

also, your accent sounds EXACTLY like mine, and I'm from an Aussie dad, a NY mom, grew up in DC which is part of the NE accent family, live in Sydney, and work with a British boss. [giggles]

[ladyfoxxx]

a) Yay! I facepalmed after I said that because wow, not only is it an Aussie-only reference, it's also rather out of date now. Showing my age!

b) LOL Kiwi pronunciation is WEIRD, yo.

Oooh you should do the quiz and see if you get the same result as me! I don't have any real excuse for the American twang in my accent since I've never lived there for any real period of time, but it just got in there somehow, but the British thing I can blame on living in London!

[mrsquizzical]

no chance for me to do this one yet or listen to your voice post. but i did lol at the very idea!

[ladyfoxxx]

Apparently I talk like someone from North Jersey? LOL...

[mistresscurvy]

Oh god, as a former actor from North Jersey who spent a LOT OF TIME thinking about accents in general, I have MANY FEELS about this post

[ladyfoxxx]

And once you start playing around with your speech for performance purposes it totally fucks up EVERYTHING, both because I mimic whoever I'm talking with to some degree, ALWAYS, and also because I'm aware of the different ways to say all of those words, and so I can do it, and it's hard for me to concretely say THIS is how I always say this word.OMG THIS THIS THIS. I do this ALL THE TIME. I actually have to make an EFFORT when I am in other countries to NOT mimic accents, or when I am hanging around people with accents to NOT copy their accent because I do it WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT. I get so concerned that people are going to get annoyed with me for ripping off their accent and I SWEAR I don't do it on purpose

[mistresscurvy]

When I've been in the UK, I can USUALLY keep myself from going full-out mimicry (which I do try to keep myself from doing because lol I do not want to be Madonna or Gwyneth, thanks), but what I can't keep myself from doing is using vocab or English phrases that would make me sound like a hipster in New York but are common over there.

I'm actually running into that a bit with podfic myself - like, I DON'T sound like the MCR boys do, but I know how Frank DOES sound, so if I put on a bit more of a (genuine) Jersey accent, is that BAD? Or does it help the story? I JUST DON'T KNOW.

[ladyfoxxx]

OMG I just went and creeped on the BBB podfic claim post and saw what fic you are doing. ALL THE YAYS. I bet you do an awesome job, god I can't wait to hear that one spoken aloud.

I DON'T sound like the MCR boys do, but I know how Frank DOES sound, so if I put on a bit more of a (genuine) Jersey accent, is that BAD? Or does it help the story? I JUST DON'T KNOW.

I TOTALLY THINK IT WOULD WORK! I mean, if you know how to pronounce it the way Frank would then why the hell NOT say it the way he would if it's a story in his POV? I don't see how it would ruin the experience unless it sounded put-on or mottsy, but it sounds like you would do it RIGHT.

It's kind of like, if someone were to do podfic of tuesdaysgone and fleurdeliser's OT3 verse (DEAR GOD PLEASE) if they could do Grant's dialogue in a NOT-mottsy Scottish accent it would work SO WELL. But only if they could actually DO IT properly and not like somebody doing an impression, you know? Which in the case of a Jersey accent w/ the MCR boys you TOTALLY could.

LOL SO MANY FEELINGS.

[redscarfe]

Your laugh is the greatest. *g* I would have answered this in exactly the same way, and North Jersey, what??? "Is Don, Is Good" cracked me up as well. It's probably weird how often I reference that in real life...

Also, I realised I haven't friended you, so I'm going to do that if it's alright with you. I really like your fic and meta posts!

[ladyfoxxx]

Oh god I sound HYSTERICAL. I think I WAS a little hysterical by the time I'd finished that, holy hell.

Cool! I need more people who understand Is Don Is Good on my flist. I just went and creeped your journal and saw that you have Frank at Seaworld photos in a recent entry and I was like HA, yeah I like this girl. I think I saw a Sherlock reference there to (COUGHNOTMYNEWFANDOMCOUGH)

HI!

[redscarfe]

I don't remember to post an awful lot, because tumblr has kinda eaten my soul... but I'm trying to do it more. Hello! *waves* :D