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Whit
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| captain54 wrote: | just an observation...
my best guess is that both of the ladies are from the Midwest.. telltale is the "to's" become "ta's".. conversational or emotive natural reads from Midwest folks all seem to have their "to's - ta's" and "you's - ya's" .. not to mention "for" becoming "fer"... |
Oh this is so midwestern me and made me chuckle. To directly mention "fer", here's this I did with many right up front examples of it. FER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0nKPkYD7E |
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Scott Pollak
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Whit... that's you on the Oakley spot? If so, fantastic!
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heyguido
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Finestkind! 
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Whit
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Yep, me, thanks!! FER FEREVER!!! ha. |
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Diane Maggipinto
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 9:37 am Post subject: |
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i had a session a couple of weeks ago and **really** had to work at under-annunciating. for example, mountain had to be said mount-in.
utahans are pretty lazy speakers (pore s'moreon, s'great, s'cute) and it was for a program for local pbs affiliate, so i had to try to be folksy-like. i was ignernt, as "they" say ...
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ballenberg
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Uh, clearly I'm missing something here:
| Quote: | | mountain had to be said mount-in. |
How would you normally be saying it? |
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Scott Pollak
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mount-uhn, maybe?
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ballenberg
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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sure, that sounds good ----I wasn't thinking Diane meant that as such a pronounced i-- We could just skip all this and call it a really big hill
But first can we slip the word schwa in here somewhere. Schwa..yeah, that's what we need. |
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Ed Fisher
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When a client asks for the voice to sound "cowboy or country" I simply switch into the voice I normally use when I'm talking to my relatives.
Problem solved.
y'all.
But "casual" speech can also sound "honest" or even "intimate." I thought what both of these ladies did at the top was excellent. Although, I do think the engineer is responsible for leaving in some mouth pops. But hey....who do you think actually noticed...or cared?
VO People.
And as we all know...they don't get a vote.
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Diane Maggipinto
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:42 am Post subject: |
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bill, moun(t)inn or moun'inn
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mounTinn
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captain54
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| Clutter Ash wrote: |
But "casual" speech can also sound "honest" or even "intimate." . |
that's a valid point, but it can also come across "lazy" and "uninspired".. Telling a story with a point of view and with a certain juice behind the words, doesn't work all that well with casual speech.. it's tricky.. It's much easier to have the focus forward, toward the lips and tounge (where standard British is usually placed), when trying to make a point, and make it clear "organically" for your listener..
when I'm in my back yard at a cook out I'm good with just basic regional speech.. I'm not normally trying to make a very clear point of view and get a point across, generally speaking..
Nancy Wolfson makes a great point in one of her lessons.. When you get a direction of "casual, conversational".. they usually just mean they don't want
standard "announcery"..
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ballenberg
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh. Apparently speechless. Thanks Diane. I had just typed a long story about pronunciations but the interface lost it--Maybe another time |
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Diane Maggipinto
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i saw your post, bill, and thought that i should have done the same! somehow phonetics of 'mountain' ain't translating.
funny this - i was on the plane last week out of slc when the flight attendant began her yada yada and i could NOT believe how many complete syllables were dropped. i wondered if she had some impediment (other than being from utah) but discovered she spoke perfectly well off-mic.
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