Oh noes!

[lyore]

... I may have hit a slight snag in my speech-writing. It's all plotted, and I've written the first quarter or so (and when I say 'written' I mean 'wandered randomly round the apartment/stood in the bathroom and spouted lines until I like the sound of them'). I decided to take a break and watch something for a while, and that's when I discovered my problem.

I sound like one of the presenters on Top Gear*. I've always had a tendency to go slightly 'english' when I do public speaking, and speanding far to much time listening to three english guys do nothing but ramble has definitely made accentuated it.

Still, could be worse, right? English accents are... classy, or something, right? It's not like I'm sounding American

*With a little bit of John Critchon's Peacekeeper accent thrown in, for regional variation.

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[laligin.livejournal.com]

*covers mouth to hide smile*

As long as you're intelligible, what does it matter?

And if you start sounding like one of those really awful faux-British accents that Americans (for example) think we lot actually sound like, I want to hear a recording of it. :P It always makes me giggle when I discover that the rest of the world thinks we're so very posh.

:)

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I wasn't that bad :) In fact, I think it was more a matter of intonation and phrasing than accent.

For some reason, it never really registered that you are British. Whereabouts, if you don't mind me asking?

[laligin.livejournal.com]

Carlisle at the moment (going to Liverpool in a little while for uni). And because most people have never even heard of Carlisle, let alone know where it is (and this goes for people in Britain, too, actually...) we're also known as The Great Border City, because we're about as close to the Scottish border as you can get while still being English. :)

Still, sounds fun. Hope it all goes alright. ^_^