my voice

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[Poll #518813]

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[splix.livejournal.com]

From the phone posts I've heard, you have a basic Middle Atlantic accent. Kinda like mine, but you talk much faster. Maybe *that's* the NYC bit?

[kalyx.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to your phone posts recently (no audio capability at work), but I've always been struck by your accent as it sounds to me like a combo of California and north eastern/NY. Check out some of the articles for the PBS show, Do You Speak American? I was fascinated by the show and was convinced without a doubt that I don't have an accent, until they spoke with Californians on the show and yup, I definitely have the California accent and it is a very obvious accent. I actually don't know how to speak without fronting all of my vowels which I now know "sounds weird". And I haven't lived in CA since I was 15, but I guess I still have the accent.

[orien.livejournal.com]

No one can figure out where I'm from, either.

I had four years of speech therapy and I've lived in four distinctly different portions of America for long periods of time ('heartland', midwest, south, here). Absolutely no one believes I grew up in Kentucky unless they meet Michael.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Ticky ticky?

[http://users.livejournal.com/sunyata__/]

No one believes I'm from Florida either. I'm constantly mistaken for a New Yorker.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up in Montana, everybody thought I was from New York. Good thing I moved here, huh?

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

On the few audio posts I've heard, I thought you sounded like my sister [and me] some, so, Midwestern mixed with a bit of a pressured-speech edge and some kind of mild something else. [She and I have a tiny bit of a 'th' issue from our mom's accent that speech therapy didn't totally erase, especially when we're tired or have been drinking, but I don't think you had exactly that.]