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Originally posted by Vector A My accent is the neutral one. Everyone who speaks differently from me is either a bumpkin or a suspicious foreigner.

I love how everyone tends to think like that. It's even better when you travel miles and miles to some inhospitable corner of the planet where people happen to speak your language, they sound hilarious but they also claim you're the one with the accent - theirs is the default pronunciation

Come to think of it, where's Nou?

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Originally posted by Lira As if you're reading too fast?

Too fast for proper enunciation, yeah.

I guess my headspeech sort of has a "standard" American accent like I do when I talk, but I think it might be hard for someone to tell, if they could hear it out loud, due to the speed. And I don't think I read especially fast.

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Originally posted by Lira Can anyone else relate to this?

Not even remotely.

If I'm reading text with quotes, I give individuals their own voice in my head. Facts and information are more or less thought with my own voice, and thus my own accent.

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Originally posted by Lira You mean like, it doesn't have a "distinct non-native" accent? If people outside your head could hear it, wouldn't they quickly recognise it as an accent from the Midlands? I remember "put" and "putt" rhyme for you, right? Does your inner voice speak with this extra vowel you don't use?

I suppose I mean that, like Meat, I often don't voice something in my head at all unless it's a representation of a speech act (such as the Farnsworth quote). Particularly if it's txt spk or something similar.

EDIT: A good example is an extremely annoying shop I often pass, which is titled "Mr £andwich". My brain just cannot figure out how to pronounce this, when I say it out loud I have to pause, and usually resort to "Poundwich".

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I find, if I've been watching several episodes of something, my inner voice takes on characteristics of people in the show. For instance, if I've watched a bunch of Stephen Colbert, my inner voice will sound like Stephen Colbert for a short while. And this happens with nearly anyone.

Watch a bunch of Trek? Inner voice will sound like Kirk or Spock (sometimes both, depending on what I'm reading).
Watch some Looney Tunes? Inner voice will sound like Bugs or Daffy (complete with spitting lisp!)
Watch some Crocodile Hunter? Croiky, I'll have an inner voice like Steve Irwin!
Internet reviewer like Plinkett, Yahtzee, or Spoony? Oh hell yes I'll be having an inner voice taking on their characteristics.

All the time though, these are short term effects, and I revert back to whatever my natural inner voice is.

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I know that's not the actual pronunciation and wouldn't ever say it like that in real life; same goes for "they're" and "their", which I know should sound the same