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  • Your voice is cool, OP :) Who are you?

    This is mine. It's a quote from Henry Rollins. On this recording I over-pronounce a bit, definitely more than I usually do, especially at the start. http://vocaroo.com/i/s0evwLhS8Jj0

    P.S. I hope a lot of people do this because it's a nice idea and I want to hear all your voices :)

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    • You should've read it angrily. Especially on "blithering idiot". It would've went perfect with your voice ;)

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      • Haha! I wish I could do a better range of emotion in my voice, but I'm a terrible actor - I can only do it when I really feel it :P

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    • Slightly disappointed you don't have more of a West County twang :D

      You need to live a few years in the deepest, darkest parts of The Forest of Dean - then people will definitely be able to place your accent. Oo arrr!

      Nice reading, though :)

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      • I'd like that - plenty of people at school had it, although the town I live in is fairly central and increasingly gentrified too. I like the Forest though, so maybe one day that'll be me.

        I've lived mostly in Wales for university for a year and a half now, but I've been living with students from a variety of backgrounds so I'd be surprised if it shows in my accent. It's general enough as it is to show any more influences.

        You should post one, if you're up to it :)

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      • Does dom180 sound Scottish, or was I way off with that?

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        • Well I didn't get any hint of Scottish - maybe it's because he's enunciating every syllable? His accent sounds very clean to me; English, but I can't pick up on any inflection suggesting where in England.

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          • "Pass" and "basket" were not pronounced in the standard southern way.

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            • That's right. I do a short "a" rather than a long "a". Bath is "ba!-th' rather than "bar-th". In my town it's not totally uncommon, but the long, southern "a" is more common. I have other southern accent traits to balance it out though, for example I don't use the glottal stop in the same way my northern family members do (although you wouldn't hear it on this recording as I'm enunciating more clearly than I usually would :P).

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    • Nice! Thank you so much dom180, you saved me...was feeling really awkward. Very cool animated reading, I think I sound a bit monotonous. I imagined you'd have a southern accent. I get a blank with accents sometimes, are you Scottish?

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      • Thanks for what you say about my reading. I had a speech impediment when I was child and my parents took me to see a speech therapist. Speech therapists also teach you how to do public speaking and speak with animation, so that's where that comes from :P

        I'm English, from the west country. That is southern in a sense but it's quite a rural accent, and I also have some northern in my accent which I get from my dad :P It's quite an unusual accent and most people can't place it. Whereabouts are you from? :)

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        • I guess Scottish was a dumb guess then! Has anyone ever said that before? I really do get confused with British accents...I grew up in South London/Kent.

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    • You sound exactly like I thought you would, I must be psychic...

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