Comments on: 159th Friday Blog Roundup

By: clare

clare — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:56:39 +0000

PS the funny thing is that I think Americans tend to really like Australian accents.. but now that I’ve spent so much time around British and Kiwi folks I can start to actually hear how that accent sounds a bit harsh. I used to think they were crazy for thinking such a thing. I also no longer have this strong association between intelligence and British accents — now I just think.. hmm they sound like they are from X.

By: clare

clare — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:54:32 +0000

In 1999, would have said aussie, particularly a Melbourne type one.. but now that I’ve lived in NZ for 3 years I would say Kiwi, Irish or maybe scottish and definitely not Australian:)

But I no longer hear the Kiwi accent so I don’t know how much joy it would give me. I guess I should save up any accent help for the day that I become semi-fluent in a language and want to risk actually sounding like I can speak it

By: Lavender Luz

Lavender Luz — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:25:03 +0000

Tessa and I are listening to you and ChickieNob talk about behds and gehls. She says she’s a gehl, but that’ doesn’t explain the penchant for worms.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:20:59 +0000

Sadly, I’m stuck as a girl but I would LOVE to fly like a bird. I loved the audio files.

As for accents, I really love the Australian accent.

By: JuliaS

JuliaS — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:40:55 +0000

Uhhhh – thanks for that Mel. I made the good (bad?) decision to listen to your audio files while there were little ears in the room . . .

Now the strains of “are you a Birhd or a girrrl?” are echoing around my domicile . . .

We speak whale around here – ala Dorry from Nemo. We don’t do Humpback so much – too hard on the vocal chords.

I also have a mean voice – where I sound rather possessed and comes out when trying to motivate the masses towards a faster response time.

Any accent?? Oh, Scottish – definitely! Though – Australian is a very, very, very close second. I would love a brogue though . . .

By: FET Accompli

FET Accompli — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:44:36 +0000

Hmm, maybe an English accent?

By: cara

cara — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:43:11 +0000

Um, I think the slow southern drawl would suite me just fiiiineee. You are so funny! And I must get me one of them recording devices!!

By: claire

claire — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:45:24 +0000

I think you sound a bit like Eloise’s nanny on the old recording of the song! I love her voice!
I love your voice too and playing that kind of game is something I love to do.
thank you so much for kirtsying me yesterday. I have had a secret wish to be kirtsyed and it came true!
As for accents, having an English one and living in the States is probably as much as I would ever want to deal with. Which is the status quo for me. Going back home and being just the same as everyone else – now that might be hard. I have had my fair share of putting on accents ( and airs) in my life as a show -off and there have been times when it has backfired on me – like when I was serving in a guesthouse and one morning I was scottish and by the evening I had turned Norwegian and the guests were quite confused. Of course, I had forgotten that one needs to be consistent as well as flamboyant!
Love your blog and everything you do for the ALI community and the fact that you are a real live down to earth unpretentious julie andrews type ( aka polite and thoughtful) really inspires me that often the good gals do really win!

By: BabyMakingJourney

BabyMakingJourney — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:33:28 +0000

Since I am addicted from the Outlander series I would love to have a scottish accent.

By: Faereyluna

Faereyluna — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:25:21 +0000

Oh and I would choose Australian accent. Those Aussi do it for me. What would be better is if hubby had an Aussi accent. FOR SURE!