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Mar. 14th, 2008 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A-yep, I definently hit a downtime at around two or three in the afternoon. 'Course, the fact that I got just under six hours of sleep last night probably doesn't help. Hmm. When's my next day off in Cambridge, Tuesday? Tuesday I will have to sleep all day*
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Went with mum to her dialects class, which was awesome. I'm really rubbish at the cockney accent, but decent at Irish and pretty good at proper English. I still don't know enough of the Bawston southie accent to fake it well.
I've actually been spending a lot of time thinking about accents lately --I've got whichever Bawl'more accent it is that makes me drop syllables out of the middle of words. That's why crayon is pronounced 'cran'.
Also been thinking about word choice, especially the way I use my multiple terms of endearment. I regularly call just about everyone I know child(e), darlin', dear, honey (or hun), or sweetie (terms of detractment are typicall (basket)wench, wanker, or fucker) all regardless of gender.
Mom pointed out that I really only call people sweetie when I think they're being a moron ie, "Sweetie, are you sure you want to go smoke *another* cigarette?" and the like. I think I primarily use 'honey' when I'm trying to comfort someone, especially comforting them after I think they've made a bad decision.
I use babe almost exclusively as a greeting ("Hey babe, what's up?") and I'd like to think I only use it for a handful of people, but that's probably not true.
I use child(e) on everyone. The only difference between whether I spell it with or without the "E" is whether the person I'm using it on is older or younger than me: younger than me is child, older than me is childe. I pronounce them the same.
(I should add that either version is usually used when I'm scolding people. "Childe, what *have* you gotten yourself into this time?" is not an unusual sentence for me to say.)
When I'm full out scolding someone or ranting at them, my accent decidedly shifts --you can see it in my writing, too, though I don't see a good recent example. It happens generally when I get (negatively) emotional --do you know the RHPS callback line "Get your tits off my tank"? That's kinda the general sass level I maintain when I'm at my full ranting.
(I also suspect it's somewhat of a Southern accent. Bollocks.)
(Someone remind me to fill this space with discussion of kitty pidgen, my insults, my swearing, and more thoughtprocessing on the ranty-Sor voice)
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Gonna help mom clean things now. Ta!
~Sor
MOOP!
*Unless I get kidnapped by Keira and forced to bake cookies or something. Which I stubbornly maintain is totally possible.
***
A-yep, I definently hit a downtime at around two or three in the afternoon. 'Course, the fact that I got just under six hours of sleep last night probably doesn't help. Hmm. When's my next day off in Cambridge, Tuesday? Tuesday I will have to sleep all day*
***
Went with mum to her dialects class, which was awesome. I'm really rubbish at the cockney accent, but decent at Irish and pretty good at proper English. I still don't know enough of the Bawston southie accent to fake it well.
I've actually been spending a lot of time thinking about accents lately --I've got whichever Bawl'more accent it is that makes me drop syllables out of the middle of words. That's why crayon is pronounced 'cran'.
Also been thinking about word choice, especially the way I use my multiple terms of endearment. I regularly call just about everyone I know child(e), darlin', dear, honey (or hun), or sweetie (terms of detractment are typicall (basket)wench, wanker, or fucker) all regardless of gender.
Mom pointed out that I really only call people sweetie when I think they're being a moron ie, "Sweetie, are you sure you want to go smoke *another* cigarette?" and the like. I think I primarily use 'honey' when I'm trying to comfort someone, especially comforting them after I think they've made a bad decision.
I use babe almost exclusively as a greeting ("Hey babe, what's up?") and I'd like to think I only use it for a handful of people, but that's probably not true.
I use child(e) on everyone. The only difference between whether I spell it with or without the "E" is whether the person I'm using it on is older or younger than me: younger than me is child, older than me is childe. I pronounce them the same.
(I should add that either version is usually used when I'm scolding people. "Childe, what *have* you gotten yourself into this time?" is not an unusual sentence for me to say.)
When I'm full out scolding someone or ranting at them, my accent decidedly shifts --you can see it in my writing, too, though I don't see a good recent example. It happens generally when I get (negatively) emotional --do you know the RHPS callback line "Get your tits off my tank"? That's kinda the general sass level I maintain when I'm at my full ranting.
(I also suspect it's somewhat of a Southern accent. Bollocks.)
(Someone remind me to fill this space with discussion of kitty pidgen, my insults, my swearing, and more thoughtprocessing on the ranty-Sor voice)
***
Gonna help mom clean things now. Ta!
~Sor
MOOP!
*Unless I get kidnapped by Keira and forced to bake cookies or something. Which I stubbornly maintain is totally possible.