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vegetariansushi I'm not sure if you meant something like this, well, I'm pretty sure you didn't but I felt sad and decided that although I wanted it to turn out differently, to play around with it more, it still works. It strikes me as too bitter, but maybe that's just RL seeping in on the edges.

Subtle

a whispered felony
a single word
mumbled, not even spoken clearly
what broke my heart?
not the betrayal you could not hide in your sleep
but the name you let slip off your tongue
so carelessly
that it almost chattered on the floor.

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Hee. You don't sound like you're stumbling at all, love. You're brilliant.

I'm glad that my accent didn't make you run screaming. I was trying so hard to sound properly "normal American" on those. I'll record some longer stuff, but be aware that the accent will change change change. And then you have to promise not to be scared.

Oh I love accents, so come on! I won't run away. Oooh and changing accents? My poor hubby can imitate a lot of accents and I always ask him to do so. It's always like: Do the Scottish one! Now the Mancunian! Now do a Texan! An Indian! Wheee!!

So there. Sucker for accents :D

Hee. I envy people who can change accents at will, because I have a very hard time with that. I'll read. . . hm. I posted a bit of a story a while back that I can read, I guess, because that'd be probably closest to a local accent as you'll ever hear me say. I was concentrating really hard on sounding properly American when I recorded those earlier, so if I'm thinking less about it, my speech will slip up. I will, eventually, hit a point where I'm incomprehensible. It's appalling, really.

I don't think you can become incomprehensible for me. I want to listen to you again! Come on, record iiiit. You know you want to. *tries to brainwash you* Besides, I really really want to hear your "normal" voice. The way I sound on those files I recorded is teh way I normally sound when I'm speaking English. Sometimes I have a stronger British accents coming through and sometimes (when I'm very nervous) I stumble over words a lot more than I did on the recordings. But other than that it is my normal voice. English voice. Um, I hope you know what I mean.
So read your story or parts of it and don't worry.

*kisses*

I'll record more stuff tomorrow - This is kind of a bad day, 'cause there's people here, and I'm amazingly tired.

My "normal" voice is... Hm. My normal voice is not the local accent where I'm from. I spent a lot of time in other states when I was small - mostly North Carolina and Massachusettes - so I have a slight accent from there on some words, and then on others I sound less American and more somewhere-else, probably Canadian. It's hard to explain. I'll try and find something that I can read in my normal voice, though, and I'll read the one thing in one of the local acents from here.

*licks*

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