Is it normal the voices are different to how i imagined?

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The recent voice recordings of is it normal members sound so different to how I imagined. I am considering putting one on myself but my voice is terrible it sounds queer and I commend the others for submitting recordings. I am weak it seems. When I read their comments I never think of their accent except for shackleford and wigsplitz because they sound as I imagined them to be.

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  • nAt2017
    11 years ago | pl

    Yeah, we were all pretty surprised. Someone said I sounded like I was made of cupcakes, which is nice. I'm fond of cupcakes.

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    • dirtybirdy
      11 years ago

      Haha I know who said it. Its true too!

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  • howaminotmyself
    11 years ago

    Pretty please, submit your voice.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Ok I will. I liked your voice on it and Failedcasanova and Valleyofvung. I will sound drab compared to them but I will do it. Thanks.

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  • Yumazing
    11 years ago

    My voice is an east coast prep school 14 year old. Or so I'm told. Thaaanks guys.

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    • disthing
      11 years ago

      You sound like an Asian American too.

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    • Brawnyboy
      11 years ago

      We still love you

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  • NoraBaker
    11 years ago

    I would ♥ some feedback on my accent. I'll record this weekend.

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  • NotFloydzie
    11 years ago

    I've been conscious about sending mine, and whether I should do it in English or Spanish. I have a heavy accent. It's like an accent on top of an accent.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      Sounds hot.

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      • NotFloydzie
        11 years ago

        Well, Neuro, it isn't.

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        • NeuroNeptunian
          11 years ago

          Almost willing to bet money that it is.

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          • NotFloydzie
            11 years ago

            Bet? You mean throw away.

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    • Saycheese
      11 years ago

      I'm pretty sure it'll be awesome! I like the spanish accent too. :)

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    • DannyKanes
      11 years ago

      You should do it :) I'll send mine in if you send yours :)

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      • NotFloydzie
        11 years ago

        How about I send mine after you send yours?

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    Everyone is welcome and nobody got judged harshly. We were all surprised at how we sounded. Now there's about twenty voices up there, I was going to run the story again, have a second push so to speak (now people will know they're not alone) and then finally take the site down in a couple of weeks.

    You've done me a favour in posting this, and saved me the effort. Thank you! :)

    And to everyone who offered to submit a voice and then didn't (you know who you are), this is your chance.

    Any site user is welcome, even if this is your first day and you haven't made a comment yet. The instructions (and our voices) are at:

    http://iinvoice.elementfx.com/

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    • Avant-Garde
      11 years ago

      Why take the site down?!
      It's apart of IIN's history!

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Ahh, just that it's people's voices and they've generously donated them. A lot of people felt odd about doing it even temporarily and I'd never want to take advantage of people's generosity. Some that were on the site have already been removed and, also, I'm the only one who can edit the site. If I ever get knocked down by a bus, people's voices would be stuck there permanently.

        I guess I could email everyone who submitted, though, and ask if they'd want to be individually removed if the site was to be permanent. Personally, I don't mind mine staying up. I'm forever talking about my accent here and it'd be nice just to tell people to go listen. :)

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        • bananaface
          11 years ago

          I'd be happy to leave mine up if it matters? It doesn't bother me having it there anymore, I kinda like it:). I agree with Avant that it should stay up :D

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          • disthing
            11 years ago

            I loved yours!

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          • dappled
            11 years ago

            One reason that I'd actually like to leave it up is that it's a snapshot of who was here on the site, a bit like a family photo. We all come and go and people leave all the time and its kind of a nice memento.

            Half the current voice posters will be gone in a year. It'd be nice if I posted the story again and people saw it and said, "Aww, do you remember bananaface? She was mental wasn't she? Who'd have thought she'd marry Louie Spence and conquer Hollywood?" :P

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            • bananaface
              11 years ago

              Haha, that made me laugh:D! But it is a bit sad that half of the people will be gone in a year, I wonder if I'll be one of them:/.

              ...And speaking of mental, bananaface is about to do something which could only be described as completely insane. Now, I'm not going to make any promises, but I think you might just get a pleasant (and completely embarrassing) surprise today:D! Haha:P.

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        • Avant-Garde
          11 years ago

          Speaking of which, I'll try submitting my in this week:)
          I'll just need the right amount of privacy and find some good reading material.

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    • disthing
      11 years ago

      dappled you've got a proper mank accent haven't you? :P

      I might do this too. Any chance I can read a different bit of text?

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      Cool. You must really like people here.

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      • disthing
        11 years ago

        He went away for a while, but he came crawling back...

        They always do. Once you're here... YOU'RE HERE FOR GOOD.

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        • Saycheese
          11 years ago

          Yes, I thought I was going to leave after about a month on here. Now look. lol

          Never thought I would have this bad of an addiction. :)

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        I guess so, yeah. Will you be submitting yours? Hope so. Newbies are very welcome. :)

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    • BlueAlice
      9 years ago

      Boo, this got deleted!

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    • RaNdOmPoPcOrN
      11 years ago

      Hey dappled, my friend n I were going throu the recordings and I saw ur name and I played it, they way yu said DAPPLED made me lmfao, but I have an accent like u

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Aww, when you say "my friend n I", I imagined you and Allistalla sitting in a room together, giggling. :P

        You should record your accent and be part of this too!

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        • RaNdOmPoPcOrN
          11 years ago

          Lol :P And nah I hate my voice, it's to pichy

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  • disthing
    11 years ago

    Who's the mystery ' - ' ?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Are you the anonymous voice?

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      • disthing
        11 years ago

        No, that's why I'm asking ha

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  • Wubwubwub
    11 years ago

    pop-tarts, barbie, an coffee :] i love it

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    11 years ago

    I am intrigued about who the anonymous recording is from, he sounds nice.

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      The Chicago one? I don't even know myself and, even if I did know, I certainly wouldn't be revealing it because he asked for anonymity. I really, really liked the accent, though. It was one of my favourites.

      P.S. If anyone else wants to post and be anonymous, that is absolutely fine. A lot of this experiment was about regional accent rather than individuals on IIN. If you're from Asia or South America (the two continents yet to be represented) and are worried about being identified, then we can even go so vague as just a continent and no IIN username.

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    • bananaface
      11 years ago

      The one from Chicago? I really liked that one too:). He sounds like someone, maybe an actor, but I can't remember whoD:!

      Also, if you haven't already, send your voice:D I was in the same situation as you and it feels really good when you do it:D!

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    How did you find that website. Who built it and why? Most people's voices I would've never guessed to sound like that. And I had no idea Saycheese was a guy (no offense to you, Saycheese).

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      I created it because a few people were interested. The backstory is here:

      http://isitnormal.com/poll/is-it-normal-voiceaccent-comparison-129262/

      Saycheese is a guy? If she is, she's the most feminine-sounding (and looking) guy I've ever heard in my life!

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  • Saycheese
    11 years ago

    I have to agree. Although I did think Shackleford96 sound different, he sounded older.

    I also thought these IIN users voices were a lot different from what I expected:

    dappled, NeuroNeptunian, Yumazing, shade_ilmaendu, charli.m and dom180

    I loved everybodys voices on there though.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      I know. I'm sure many of the listeners were suprised to find out that I am actually a 35 year old black man.

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      • Saycheese
        11 years ago

        Haha.

        You sound fine. I think you have a pretty voice and you can definitely tell a difference in our accents.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Oh, please. Yours was very girly. You have a pretty voice. :P

        P.S. Outside of Shackleford96 and I (who both recorded ours before I posted the story), you were the first to respond and get the ball rolling and I don't think I ever properly thanked you for that. So thank you. :)

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Where are these voice recordings?

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    • Saycheese
      11 years ago

      dappled had put the site up on his comment.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    My accent is pretty terrible in my opinion.

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    • NotFloydzie
      11 years ago

      Mine is worst.

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      • DannyKanes
        11 years ago

        No way :) You wait til you hear my voice :P

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        • NotFloydzie
          11 years ago

          No, no, no. You wait till you hear mine.

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    • Saycheese
      11 years ago

      I bet not. I love the british accent.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        I don't really have one, unfortunatly. I have a mix of American and British...Somehow. I've never been to America.

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        • dappled
          11 years ago

          A lot of British people have that kind of accent but we haven't got one up on the site yet so you'd be doing me a favour if you recorded yourself. Plus a lot of people would be curious because you're such a fixture here.

          One more potential upside - whenever I read dom180's, bananaface's, or Yumazing's posts now, I hear them in their own accent and in some weird way, I think it'd be impossible for me to misunderstand anything they write. That's just come from the voice thing.

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        • Redcoats
          11 years ago

          A mix between American and British is often called transatlantic or midatlantic, which is brilliant in my opinion (:

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        • deepthought33
          11 years ago

          As long as it isn't a British accent mixed with a New York accent you should be fine.
          Sorry New York :P
          I grew up in Minnesota so I'm well aware of the 'accent stigma'.

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          • disthing
            11 years ago

            Minnesota... You all sound kind of Canadian to me :P

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            • Avant-Garde
              11 years ago

              To me, the Minnesotan accent sounds like a mixture between the Alaskan and the Canadian accents.

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        • Saycheese
          11 years ago

          Hmm. That's interesting, I guess it might just be the part of England you are in.

          People can tell a difference between my accent and other people in the northern part of the U.S.

          We've even had it where someone knew that my parents were from northern Ohio when they were in some other country I believe or state.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    I've been thinking about doing it, but I am self-conscious about my voice and I'm not that good at reading aloud...

    I really think you should try it and remember that often our own worse critics are ourselves.

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      I wish you would do it. It doesn't have to be one of the set pieces. You could just... I don't know... tell us about a photograph you've taken, or something. Actually, I think that would be really kind of interesting. To know what was going through your mind and why you took the shot and what the back story is. :)

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        That's a good idea, but I think I may go with a poem instead:)

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        Not a shabby idea!

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    • Saycheese
      11 years ago

      I'm not the best at reading out loud either. It took me several times to get it to sound alright. I had to keep deleting my recordings. ha

      After you keep practicing it, I'm sure it'll be fine.

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        I think you sounded just fine XD

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        • Saycheese
          11 years ago

          Ok, thanks. I hope so, I did the recording pretty late at night too.

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          • Captain_Kegstand
            11 years ago

            Got mine sent!

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            • Saycheese
              11 years ago

              Your voice recording sounded nice. :)

              You mainly sound like a northerner and I don't hear much of a southern accent at all from what you said.

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            • Saycheese
              11 years ago

              Yea... can't wait to here it. :)

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Post®

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      PS- Everyone sounds great. You sound exactly as I would have imagined.

      Except Shackleford O.o

      I did not see that accent coming lol.

      I tried making my own audio recording to add to the list but fortune conspires against me and for whatever reason I can't send off the e-mail.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        If you want to temporarily put it somewhere on the web (Dropbox, Google, whatever) and email me the link, I can make sure it ends up on the website. Oh, and tell me how vague you want your location to be.

        Failing that, just try emailing it again. The more, the merrier!

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        • [Old Memory]
          11 years ago

          I'm going to send you the file IF you swear to give me feedback on my voice before uploading it to the site.

          Deal?

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Uploaded.

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    Haha I know! Now I read their comments in their voices. It was a nifty little experiment. If you're going.g to do it you better soon. I'm not sure how long it will up for.

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    Sweet, we will see how similar our accents are, since we live in fairly close proximity!

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  • BlueAlice
    11 years ago

    How do you even do this?

    I'm intrigued, but I don't think it'd be worthwhile

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    • Saycheese
      11 years ago

      If you go and click on the website that dappled had posted up top there; there they tell what you need to do.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I would love to post my voice. I think it's a great idea...but I have no microphone.

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    • Avant-Garde
      11 years ago

      Surely, there's a way:(

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    • Captain_Kegstand
      11 years ago

      Cell phone?

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        My cell phone is so limited on what it can do. I seldom even get to reply to comments directly.

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        • Captain_Kegstand
          11 years ago

          At present I don't even have one, as I smashed mine and I have not made it to the phone store to replace it. I feel naked without one!

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Really? Mine died on me one day and I was actually amazed at how peaceful that day was. Reminded me of old times...when work was only interrupted by an emergency call to the business phone, when people stopped to help each other on the side of the road because they probably had no other option, and I could take a shit in peace :)

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            • Captain_Kegstand
              11 years ago

              Ya but when you were stuck with a long shit, it was so boring! lolz But I do understand what you mean. When I feel like relaxing I will turn my phone off, but I at least keep it with me in case of an emergency lolz.

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    Failedcasanova and Dappled were the most surprising to me.

    Failed has a southern accent, even by my standards, and I did not see that coming! Girls where I live DIE for that.

    Dapples surprised me because he talked about his accent like it was a "sort of physical disability" when, upon listening, it sounded pretty bad ass in my mind.

    Shade_ilmaendu was definently the most enthusiastic about reading her poem XD

    And I am extremely curious about what kind of accent valleyofvung has, as I am not very exposed to accents so I can't place it for sure!

    Mine will be up as soon as I can, as I am having trouble with AT&T and getting my new iPhone, as they are cry babys!

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      It's weird that my accent translated the same way to you as it does to people here. My accent is sometimes viewed with fear and suspicion because the implication is that I'm violent or a criminal. It's one of the lowest classes of accent from one of the poorest cities.

      Oh, and I know what accent ValleyofVung has because I recognised it but she didn't put her location in her email so I would want anyone to speculate in public. She might be fine with it, but better safe than sorry. :)

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        I figured it out too, she was nice enough to private message and appease my curiosity about the origin of her accent. The problem was that her accent (to my ears) is so subtle that I couldn't place it!

        Hmph, just from talking to you, it is fairly difficult for me to picture as low class, violent, or a criminal. You put off a vibe of intelligence that doesn't fit that. But if that's true, I can actually understand why you are so negative about it.

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    • Brawnyboy
      11 years ago

      Yep. I listened to my recording and just thought "Wow I'm such a hick"

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        It's okay, i'm pretty hick myself. I had one parent with an extreme southern accent, and one with an extreme northern accent, so I think I grew up speaking right in the middle, lolz.

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        • Brawnyboy
          11 years ago

          Hah well you're a pretty cool dude over all keg and I don't expect any less from your accent.

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          • Captain_Kegstand
            11 years ago

            Well I hope I can deliver! lolz I appreciate the compliment!

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            • Brawnyboy
              11 years ago

              Well I don't think performance issues have ever been an issue for you haha ;)

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    You realise most users would just speak differently than they normally do. They'd have fake accents, or a totally different speech pattern.

    It's the internet, it's liars, it's liars on the internet.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      I truly did believe that my fake Russian accent is convincing.

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  • disthing
    11 years ago

    How did I only just find out about this?! Oh this is fun!

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    To anyone who's thinking about doing it and feels worried about not being brave enough: I want to say that to me it felt really good doing something I was really scared of and finding that actually it wasn't really bad at all. I feel proud that I did it, even though it's something that seems very small it's a difficult hurdle to jump and it feels good to do it. So do it :)

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    • Avant-Garde
      11 years ago

      Dom, your voice is wonderful:)

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      • dom180
        11 years ago

        Aw, thank you! :) You should join in the fun too; I've wondered what your voice is like.

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    • dirtybirdy
      11 years ago

      Me too. That is, if I did it ;) i felt so wierd about it, but good, plus i wasnt fully alert haha I hadn't been awake too long. thanks for inviting me to dinner by the way!! I'm still here ;)

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      • dom180
        11 years ago

        You're... you?! :O I'd like to say I picked up on the vibes, but this time I didn't :( Glad to know you're here... and enjoy dinner ;)

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        • dirtybirdy
          11 years ago

          Ya I know I'm a bit off these days. :(
          thanks :D

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    • disthing
      11 years ago

      You're from Gloucestershire too eh? :D

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      • dom180
        11 years ago

        :O Oh my God, seriously? And I thought I was the only one... :D You have to do this too by the way; I'm far too posh to represent us accurately :)

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        • disthing
          11 years ago

          Ha you are fairly well-spoken. I'm lacking in the accent department :/ I used to sound like a proper farmer when I was 12, then I went to a better school and lost it. Now apparently I 'don't have an accent', so I'm not sure I'd do too well representation wise either. Maybe I'll give it a go though :)

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