Good folk: When speaking to someone you are not familiar with on the phone, do you tend to find that your voice changes?
Do you consciously adopt a specific tone/manner of speaking or else, possibly due to nerves, is it beyond your immediate control and ostensibly automatic?
I myself suffer from the curious affliction of my voice raising a bloody octave or so(!!!) 
Please tell me I’m not alone in suffering from this sad and highly embarrassing phenomena….?
Is there a helpline existing for this unhappy plight?
….damn though! - I won’t want to ring it and speak…. |
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"I just speak fast to piss ppl off !
You dont need to speak fast to do that though  "
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"I just speak fast to piss ppl off !
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By *uzie69xTV/TS
over a year ago
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Nooooo... squeaky for a man is not a good sound! I'm thinking Michael Jackson or Emlyn Hughes... Too excitable!
You'll need to calm and lower your voice... I find it helps to visualise.
When I speak on the phone, I imagine I'm Joanna Lumley... Like when she bumps into her friend Shirley Valentine...
... "Oh no darling, I'm going to New York on Concorde because I'm a high class escort!" |
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By *assy69Man
over a year ago
West Sussex and Wales |
"Good folk: When speaking to someone you are not familiar with on the phone, do you tend to find that your voice changes?
Do you consciously adopt a specific tone/manner of speaking or else, possibly due to nerves, is it beyond your immediate control and ostensibly automatic?
I myself suffer from the curious affliction of my voice raising a bloody octave or so(!!!)
Please tell me I’m not alone in suffering from this sad and highly embarrassing phenomena….?
Is there a helpline existing for this unhappy plight?
….damn though! - I won’t want to ring it and speak…. "
Apparently, I sound rather aggressive on the phone????  |
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"Nooooo... squeaky for a man is not a good sound! I'm thinking Michael Jackson or Emlyn Hughes... Too excitable!
You'll need to calm and lower your voice... I find it helps to visualise.
When I speak on the phone, I imagine I'm Joanna Lumley... Like when she bumps into her friend Shirley Valentine...
... "Oh no darling, I'm going to New York on Concorde because I'm a high class escort!""
I actually have to consciously pause, and force myself back to a lower octave.
Unfortunately in doing so, I sometimes drop it too low (below my everyday range) and subsequently end up sounding a bit like a rather poor baritone performing vocal warm up exercises |
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It’s called linguistic accommodation.
For most it’s a relatively subtle difference we adopt reflecting how we think we need to speak with the person we’re conversing with. The trope of the “posh phone voice” as seen to comedic effect in certain sitcoms particularly “keeping up appearances”.
In others (like myself) it can be more extreme at times. I’m a forces brat but it’s seen in other communities and people that move around a lot too. I have to work REALLY Hard not to slip into the accents, dialects and speech patterns of others especially if they have eg a really strong accent or very noticeable and unusual way of speaking. It’s got me in hot water when people have thought I was taking the piss I genuinely cannot help it.
Fascinating area of linguistic study and explains why certain accents in certain regions have become as they are due to certain groups moving into those areas. |
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"It’s called linguistic accommodation.
For most it’s a relatively subtle difference we adopt reflecting how we think we need to speak with the person we’re conversing with. The trope of the “posh phone voice” as seen to comedic effect in certain sitcoms particularly “keeping up appearances”.
In others (like myself) it can be more extreme at times. I’m a forces brat but it’s seen in other communities and people that move around a lot too. I have to work REALLY Hard not to slip into the accents, dialects and speech patterns of others especially if they have eg a really strong accent or very noticeable and unusual way of speaking. It’s got me in hot water when people have thought I was taking the piss I genuinely cannot help it.
Fascinating area of linguistic study and explains why certain accents in certain regions have become as they are due to certain groups moving into those areas. "
That’s a very interesting concept indeed; effectively, subconsciously mimicking others in order to facilitate better relations/communication.
In relation to this and the many accents you have learnt to emulate, can you do a traditional Bucks accent?
I’m talking really broad, ‘Ooo Ahhh!’ style here |
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"My voice goes very English, Posh and Deep with people I don't know
Every one else gets me with country twangs, If I'm inebriated then my farmer Joe accent is fun "
‘Ooo arrr luv; Wanna see my pitch fork?’  |
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"My voice goes very English, Posh and Deep with people I don't know
Every one else gets me with country twangs, If I'm inebriated then my farmer Joe accent is fun
‘Ooo arrr luv; Wanna see my pitch fork?’ "
Gotta elongate the rrrrrrrr |
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"It’s called linguistic accommodation.
For most it’s a relatively subtle difference we adopt reflecting how we think we need to speak with the person we’re conversing with. The trope of the “posh phone voice” as seen to comedic effect in certain sitcoms particularly “keeping up appearances”.
In others (like myself) it can be more extreme at times. I’m a forces brat but it’s seen in other communities and people that move around a lot too. I have to work REALLY Hard not to slip into the accents, dialects and speech patterns of others especially if they have eg a really strong accent or very noticeable and unusual way of speaking. It’s got me in hot water when people have thought I was taking the piss I genuinely cannot help it.
Fascinating area of linguistic study and explains why certain accents in certain regions have become as they are due to certain groups moving into those areas.
That’s a very interesting concept indeed; effectively, subconsciously mimicking others in order to facilitate better relations/communication.
In relation to this and the many accents you have learnt to emulate, can you do a traditional Bucks accent?
I’m talking really broad, ‘Ooo Ahhh!’ style here "
That’s the theory behind why. In my case it was to avoid getting ostracised or thumped when I started a new school.
And yes that’s an accent I can do quite easily as I had a very similar one for 3-4 years |
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