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You know that little voice you hear inside your head when you read? Like, right now?
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| Lira |
Does it have an accent different from your own?
It's well odd, my voice speaks the broken American English I was taught in school... and, if you've ever heard me speak, I don't sound American in the slightest. For example, sometimes when I read the word "prayer" it still says "pray-ur", even though 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; and many more words I had to relearn over the years.
Can anyone else relate to this? |
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| Blake |
Dude, you're weird. :wtf:
Seriously though, that's something i've never considered. Thinking in different languages is enough as it is. |
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| aquila |
| my mental reading voice is angelic and breathy, with a curious south-western british accent |
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| Meat187 |
Damn it Lira, where are the boobies?!?! :mad:
I actually turn this "reading voice" off sometimes. Figured I can read faster that way, and really there's no reason to voice a word in your head, cause when you can do that you've already understood and processed it. |
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| Intellekshual |
I read everything in a Jeremy Irons voice. Makes everything a hell of a lot more interesting.
In all serious, it depends what I'm reading, if I know what the author sounds like, I'll read it in their voice, most of the time.. otherwise, I read in my own voice. And I can't even describe my accent, it's a melange of everything I've been taught and picked up on my own. But it's more pronounced when reading/speaking to myself, I tend to suppress it a little when talking with others.
I don't know if this answers your question, or if I understood it correctly. |
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| zyklon-jay |
| Morgan Freeman while holding a dying owl. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I've been thinking about this, and the voice, such as it is, doesn't have any accent at all. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Damn it Lira, where are the boobies?!?! :mad: |
Soon!
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I actually turn this "reading voice" off sometimes. Figured I can read faster that way, and really there's no reason to voice a word in your head, cause when you can do that you've already understood and processed it. |
That's the first step to dynamic reading, according to my fiancée. She gave it a try one day, but just like Woody Allen, she would read "War and Piece" in minutes and then just tell me all she understood is that "it's about Russians" :p
In all seriousness, I do it sometimes, but only if I'm not reading anything important.
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake
Dude, you're weird. :wtf:
Seriously though, that's something i've never considered. Thinking in different languages is enough as it is. |
I had never considered it either, I just noticed it. Given the 10 year delay since I started relearning English, I'd say it took me quite a while :D
| quote: | Originally posted by Intellekshual
In all serious, it depends what I'm reading, if I know what the author sounds like, I'll read it in their voice, most of the time.. otherwise, I read in my own voice. And I can't even describe my accent, it's a melange of everything I've been taught and picked up on my own. But it's more pronounced when reading/speaking to myself, I tend to suppress it a little when talking with others.
I don't know if this answers your question, or if I understood it correctly. |
Yup, that's exactly it. I don't know if I switch to different voices. I know I don't do it with books... but maybe I do it when friends message me.
Hmmm.... |
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| Vector A |
| I'm not even sure it's a full fledged "voice." It seems like the words go by too fast for me to really be sounding out each one in my head. |
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| Intellekshual |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
doesn't have any accent at all. |
No such thing a "neutral" accent, I don't think. |
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| Vector A |
| My accent is the neutral one. Everyone who speaks differently from me is either a bumpkin or a suspicious foreigner. |
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| Lira |
Good news everyone,
If you don't know what I'm talking about, now you can listen to a Futurama character and experience this phenomenon first hand.
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I've been thinking about this, and the voice, such as it is, doesn't have any accent at all. |
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?
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
I'm not even sure it's a full fledged "voice." It seems like the words go by too fast for me to really be sounding out each one in my head. |
As if you're reading too fast? |
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