Because I still wasn't happy

[quinara]

Further attempt to record myself, in which I explain the reason why I thought I would again, explain the basis of my dissertation and its relevance to my thinking about fandom.

http://www.box.net/shared/h7qsy9zs0x

(You really don't need to listen to this one - it's bloody long; I'm just posting it as part of a commitment to posting it... Though, PS, I do eventually remember the right Shakespeare play by the end if you get that far and want to yell at me!)

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

That? Is an awesome podfic voice. In the dissertation ramble, you sound very natural -- awake and lively and modulated without aiming for modulated and thus going over the top (which is what I do). That's the hardest balance right there. One of the most famous podfics is Written by the Victors, and I want so badly to love it, because it's a brilliant story and the concept and most of the execution is so damned cool...but the woman who reads the main chunk it, the novelized part, puts me right to sleep! She is soft and soothing and unfailingly calm, when that story demands a voice that's tack-sharp, observant and amused.

I loved the way you recapped Hippolytus, both word choice and delivery. You are funny.

I think you have my ideal "Campfire Tale for the End of Days" voice, actually. If you ever feel like giving me a random present, will you record that?

I am totally hopeless at the "place my accent" game. I know what RP sounds like, and if I think very hard I can remember things like, "Sean Bean is from Yorkshire," but otherwise? You are some variety of English. (Can you tell a Cape Bretoner from a Newfie?) Besides, you do fluctuate. So do I. I'm an accent sponge who's lived in six far-flung locations, but also, I'll pronounce a word twenty different ways depending on what the subtext is.

Notes on actual content forthcoming.

[quinara]

You mean you want me to read in my normal voice, rather than Radio 4 la-di-da? And you want me to read Campfire? Er, yes please!! (Though how do you pronounce Aur? I'd go for the beginning of Aurelius, ie. 'Or', but I could imagine a more Latin/German 'Our'.)

You are funny.

Ta very much! (Though I think I do a funnier Aeneid.)

All right, you win with your obscure Canadian places. Sometimes I think I can tell the difference between 'Canadian' and 'US'... (And possibly a difference between two Canadian accents, but the person I know with the second one has lived in London most her life, so it could be that I'm just picking up on the English.)

I'll pronounce a word twenty different ways depending on what the subtext is.

So true!

[stultiloquentia]

Whee! I never really settled on a pronunciation of "Aur" in my head, but "Or" probably sounds better out loud. Whichever!

Little known fact: many news anchors in the US are contraband Canadians, because we supposedly have a "neutral" accent. I get asked if I'm British once in a blue moon, but never by anybody who actually, y'know, listens to Brits.

[quinara]

because we supposedly have a "neutral" accent

Really? But some of you pronounce 'pen' as 'pin'!! Ah, accents...