How do YOU read Home of Poi?!

Kyrian, I say that about the news people too...they all sound like they are from here!
Funny!
I pick up accents and dialects (yup, there is a *big* difference) very easily, and like Maeon, have run into people who think I am mocking them. My own dialect is quite the mish-mosh and so is not defined.

(Oh.... Dialect is a form of our personal native language. For example...those of us who grew up speaking "English" do so with American, Australian and British dialects. An accent is what you have when you learn a language. For example, I speak Spanish with and American accent. Nomad and Cassandra speak wonderful English with beautiful French accents.)

And as for how I read HoP...easy.... with a smile!

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Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir...

http://www.pyromorph.com

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Not always Pele

Yep Maeon, remember the Joh for PM campaign? And it was his wife who made pumpkin scones famous the word over.

Well, I'm told (Though I can't hear it myself...) I have a throughly "posh" accent, or am I just well spoken probably from living in Surrey for a while. I don't mind it really, can't wait to go to the US / Australia if the girls like it so much

As for reading these posts - I just do it in my "inner voice" thing which I guess is how I think I sound

I read things in my own voice. However how you hear yourself is completely different to how you actually sound to other people. I really can't stand to hear my own voice!

Mimicing other people's accents and mannerisms is a very common thing and is a natural social tool. It's a subconcious way to connect with the person you're talking to. Whenever I'm in Malta for sometime I pick up the Maltese accent and dialect from my family and then have to spend a couple of weeks in the UK readjusting.

The Bill Hicks accent works for me! After growing up around the work I finally developed a Surrey accent, which is pretty easily exagerated into a generic Hollywood style British accent.

Excuse me, post too long, I've got to go catch a flight to Denver....

I pretend that each post is being read by a huge choir of tiny tiny midgets who have all been inhailing helium

Hey, I heard that midget tossing is still legal in Australia, is that true?

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For the HoP'iers who say that they don't mentally speak what they are reading, perhaps it's a case of not recognising what they've been doing all their lives. Like breathing or mocking David Hasselhoff, some actions are done so much they occur subconsciously.

It's harder when the voices in your head are arguing tho.
/puts down icepick.

"He will come...the voice from the outer world, bringing the holy war, the Jihad, which will cleanse the Universe and bring us out of darkness."
- Missiona Protectiva

How about this then Berzerker... I try to keep smiling while reading?

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Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir...

http://www.pyromorph.com

Nah mate, Midget tossing is still illegal in Australia. No wait... actually I don't know about the midget bit....
/stares blankly at Cradle of Filth poster

They tried to outlaw midget tossing in Germany, but the midgets signed a petition and stopped the bill going through.

Half of them relied on midget tossing as a source of income...

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Charles (AKA INFERNO)

newdolbel@hotmail.com
http://juggle.co.nz/fire/fire.html

And what did the other half do?

Most of the midget being tossed are men, so that leaves women as the other half.
If they are knee high already then they don't have to be on their knees, Cantus!

For cleaning the low places in people homes! Geez...what were you people thinking?

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Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir...

http://www.pyromorph.com

I tend to read posts in many different accents - like a script.

You all become crazy little characters in my head. I see you all in my head to, in funny costumes, and you all have different magical powers.

Like PELE for instance, you have the power to combust at any given moment, vanish and reappear where ever you wish. Like, you become invisible, and you vanish leaving a black cloud of smoke.

SPIRAL too (not that he's written on here but hey..) he is this mad spinning, whirlwind guy, with two, flaming poi's attatched to his beard, which are an attack/defence mechanism against evil people.
Like CANTUS, he's not evil, but he flys around with these crazy sparkling wings - he breathes fire, much like a dragon, and he's pink and purple..... so yeah. I sort of make little cartoon type animations in my head of people having the conversation. Ofcourse, everyone has differnet voices too.

However, for anyone who does this 'reading posts thing' in the senders accent - try mine: It's a mixture of WELSH, SCOTTISH and a tiny tiny bit of LANCASHIRE. There is your task....
Love Dibs xxx

Spiral is about 20ft tall as well, Dibs. Not sure about him being a whirlwind but he does have a lot of elbows....

thats the one thing i hate about being american...we have no sexy accent. girls fall all over themselves for a brit or an aussie but what do americans have? nothing. unless you count texas and oklahoma...we have our own accent....its called hick

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'' not all who wander are lost'' J.R.R. Tolkien

'' its better to burn out...then to fade away'' Def Leppard

I know he's a big giant!!! He told me today. I'm actually quite scared of him now.

The funny thing is, when I pictured him as the whirlwindy thing, he actually grew to about 40ft. Foreboding or what?

Thought you'd be quite big too cantus. Or slim. Cantus the dragon is quite long.
I should draw all this and send it in!
*Dibs runs to find her art equipment, will she return? who knows. Find out in the next episode*

This (if the link works) is what Cantus looks like:

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C@ntus

Music grows in the rose, rock and the rain and the blowing snowstorm,
Everything seems to sing, everywhere I go,
I say 1, 2 play me do,
Let me sound as sweet as you,
Play me wide, play me long,
Let me be your song.

or failing that click here

I saw your picture but only after I had my ickle vision. To me you will always be a big dragon.

What do you think I look like cantus?

normaly i read it ...INTOXICATED