09-20-2005, 03:22 PM | #21 |
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Nothing wrong with having an accent, it makes one's voice lively and interesting! Back when I took voice classes I always delighted in the wonderful range of accents my classmates possessed, from several varieties of Southern, to Russian, to French, to Spanish, to German, and a number of others. Despite being born 'n raised in New England, I get told I sound like I'm from the Midwest... i.e. I speak pretty bog-standard American English, aside from my bizarre pronounciation. Not nearly as interesting! Be proud of your accent! (Er, unless you already are proud of your accent, in which case, ignore me. ) Peace & Luv, Liz
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Well, I have shitty skin, I have no sternum bone (my ribs cave in, so you can eat cereal out of my chest bowl), which makes me look fatter than I am. Also, my voice gets unnaturaly deep when talking to people that I don't really know.
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Never heard about people without a sternum. Really NONE? Nada? Zero? Zilch? Ãœberhaupt keins?! I guess if it's just making you look fatter than you are, then you should consider yourself lucky...
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I tend to twitch my nose like a bunny rabbit when I'm nervous and I'm really shy about it!
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I go from being dare I say eloquent one moment, to bumbling my way through haphazzardly connected sentences the next.
I think it may have some to do with speaking three languages virtually simultaneously... It's confusing vocabulary-wise. I have colleagues that speak Dutch, Swedish and English... also German, but I don't speak that particularly well. |
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I've been hit hard countless times in that area. Never once happened to me.
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09-22-2005, 07:37 PM | #33 |
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Yep. The worst thing you could do is ignore it based on your past luck. The best thing you can do is minimize the risk and go to your doctor and say, "What can you do to fix this or at least lessen any problems in the future?"
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I plan to. It's just that at this time of the year, we're kind of strapped for cash now.
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Mh, interesting. But really, nothing to worry about. I was an ambulance boy once. *grabs his defibrillator*. Just in case....
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Yep, I mispronounce words all the time. I also say completely the wrong word, and don't tend to realise until I stop speaking and replay the words in my head. Sample conversation from a few days ago: "The thing about Sellafield is <extended spiel about Chernobyl> ....did I say Sellafield before?" "Yes." "Oh. I meant Chernobyl." "Yes, I guessed." See also the bizarre, nonsensical conversation I had the other day, where I had tried to initiate a discussion about Red Dwarf but had in fact said Doctor Who. And I have my own version of #4, in the form of being super gullible. My flatmates don't even bother stringing me along any more. Another sample conversation: Flatmate: "I've just won the lottery!!!" Me: "Really?" Flatmate: "No." Sigh. |
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