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How do other posters speak?

Chizz
Chizz Posts: 28,346
in Not Sports Related
When I read through the threads and comments, I find myself imagining how other posters would sound if I could hear them, instead of just reading their words. For example, I am pretty sure Henry Irving must speak very s-l-o-w-l-y and CLEARLY, projecting his voice, as if to the far reaches of a Victorian theatre, sounding like a cross between John Sessions, Kenneth Brannagh and Larry Olivier.

How do you think other posters sound?
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  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    I live in Norfolk so Oi speak bootiful English moy man........:)

    Not really - slightly posh sarf Lunden is me :)
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,442
    I've been told I talk like Ray Winstone. Which is bollocks, because he's from East London, whereas I'm Sarf East born and bred. Admittedly though, I do sound like a commoner when I talk - and I cannot moderate my speech for love nor money - it just feels 'wrong' when I try and pronounce things properly.

    I'd like to think the prejudices against accents are dying out, but I've had more than one person tell me a variation of 'I used to think you were thick' when they've got to know me.

    Ah well. There are worse things. For instance, I could be thought of as a patronising, condescending prick. Oh, wait...
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    edited August 2014
    As for others.

    Oggy Red - "my luvly"
    Ormiston - "he's fair dinkum"
    Henry - "RADA posh"
    Goonerhater - "diabolical liberty"
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,381
    edited August 2014
    I speak like Orville the duck. It's a fact!
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,381
    soapy_jones said:

    I speak like Orville the duck. It's a fact!

    Which is weird because I actually look like Keith Harris...


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  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,263
    I assume everyone sounds like me unless I know them

    And then I read what they say in a funny mocking squeaky voice
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    edited August 2014
    Joey essex?! Oh ffs
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    when asked where i come from and i say South London its always is that "sarrrrf London" which i always reply thats right. hate hearing my own voice (yes i know many others would agree with that) makes my toes curl. met many big hitters and famous peeps in hotels over the years always thought i should speak posher when chatting to em--would never have lasted ----you are what you are.


    AFKA sounds like larry Grason

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  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,742
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    I've been told I talk like Ray Winstone. Which is bollocks, because he's from East London, whereas I'm Sarf East born and bred. Admittedly though, I do sound like a commoner when I talk - and I cannot moderate my speech for love nor money - it just feels 'wrong' when I try and pronounce things properly.

    I'd like to think the prejudices against accents are dying out, but I've had more than one person tell me a variation of 'I used to think you were thick' when they've got to know me.

    Ah well. There are worse things. For instance, I could be thought of as a patronising, condescending prick. Oh, wait...

    Not how I thought you'd sound at all. I had you down as a Reigate Café Rouge frequenter.

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,442
    I lived in Reigate for 18 wonderful months. It didn't know what had hit it. When I moved back to Croydon the town of Reigate threw a party.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    I sound like this.........................

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodxyZvLSc0
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,271
    Feck me Bing, you've spoken to me! ; - )

    Enough people have met me or heard me speak at meetings etc but while I'm obviously articulate and funny Henry Irving is not my real name so I don't actually sound like a Victorian actor.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,261
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    I've been told I talk like Ray Winstone. Which is bollocks, because he's from East London, whereas I'm Sarf East born and bred. Admittedly though, I do sound like a commoner when I talk - and I cannot moderate my speech for love nor money - it just feels 'wrong' when I try and pronounce things properly.

    I'd like to think the prejudices against accents are dying out, but I've had more than one person tell me a variation of 'I used to think you were thick' when they've got to know me.

    Ah well. There are worse things. For instance, I could be thought of as a patronising, condescending prick. Oh, wait...

    I'm similar to Leroy. My accent is my accent and although I work hard to consciously be aware of avoiding using terms like 'ain't', I slip into the aforementioned 'sarf London'

    I reckon it is a bit of a disadvantage with my job as I work in sales, and the people I sell to are often well spoken, with neutral accents. The slips often lessen my gravitas I feel. Sometimes I think it is better to play it up, but then I'm not so sure.

    I also think it was/would have been an issue when I did my LPC and having interviews for training contracts. That is definitely an industry that needs a certain approach and a way of communication. It's always difficult because I don't want people to think I have a 'chip on my shoulder' as they say, as I know people from all backgrounds work hard and succeed where I had not. However, I still think in general people do judge you and can react to your accent. Just my thoughts.
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    I've been told I sound like a cross between Danny Baker and Dennis Waterman.
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    Operation pig - Zack dingle
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,715
    Greenie Junior said:

    Operation pig - Zack dingle

    Sam Dingle
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,867
    MSE7 - Wealdstone Raider
  • Steve Dowman
    Steve Dowman Posts: 2,406
    Dave Mehmet sounds (and looks) like Alan Carr, unsurprisingly.

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  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    It is an interesting experiment to tape yourself speaking and then listen to your voice played back. Most people say 'that doesn't sound like me' because the sound they hear is filtered through their skull whereas everyone else hears something different. I speak in a beautiful modulated and pleasing tone but unfortunately the bloody tape machine distorts it...
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I sound like a cross between Brian Sewell and Danny Dyer.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,271
    Addickted said:

    I sound like a cross between Brian Sewell and Danny Dyer.

    More like a cross between Kenneth Williams and Brian Blessed
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    ValleyGary - Mark Wright
    Plaaayer - Olly Murs

  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,201
    I think I've got a neutral southern accent, but I'm told I sound like a cross between Jack Dee and Angus Deayton.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,201
    JT said:

    ValleyGary - Mark Wright


    I imagine him as Dave Berry.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,670
    From his colourful, descriptive prose I imagine that Viewfinder speaks like Brian Sewell.

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,750
    Well, a regular if controversial poster on the Dark Side refers to me as Hyacinth Bouquet so you must make up your own minds....
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    I Sound like DCI Haskins from the Sweeney.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,670
    Goonerhater said:

    when asked where i come from and i say South London its always is that "sarrrrf London" which i always reply thats right. hate hearing my own voice (yes i know many others would agree with that) makes my toes curl. met many big hitters and famous peeps in hotels over the years always thought i should speak posher when chatting to em--would never have lasted ----you are what you are.


    AFKA sounds like larry Grason

    One really should have a conflagration on Blackheath comprising itinerants and their mobile homes....

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