I can't hear you, I'm wearing a towel

[kellifer]

So Podfics.

I never really... got into them? I don't know why, I just would kind of skim on past if someone on my flist pointed them out (except for my own, those I would announce gleefully) but still, I was always so meh about them and I have no idea why.

Mostly, I have a fairly long car trip to and from work EVERY DAY and I have no idea why I haven't made myself a damn LIBRARY of podfics to listen to before.

So a plea for the flist - point me in the direction of your favourites (if they're still available), point me in the direction of yours, point me in the direction of older ones of mine because they're on my old laptop with the horrible virus so I dare not risk importing them across. Make new ones for me - hearing all the accents is DELIGHTING me.

I would make hundreds for you all but I have no idea how and I'm sure my Aussie accent would kill you all.

Comments are screened if you want to sling one my way but don't want to share with the populace at large but I'll unscreen any where you don't mind doing that.

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

My dad has the laid-back, central Australian accent which is the one you mostly see on TV. I've been asked numerous times if I am English/American/something else European. Heh.

[tabaqui]

It's funny, but i can usually tell. There's a certain way to the vowels that catches my ear an i think 'no, that's Australian.....' I'm not as good at New Zealand, it's not nearly as familiar here, but i could listen to someone with 'an accent' talk all day.

Unless, heh, it's one of those sticky-slow, drawly Southern US accents. Those just want to make me slap some people. I guess if your grammar is bad, i get annoyed, heh.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I've noticed people outside of our two countries tend to confuse Australian and NZ accents although I can tell a New Zealander a mile away - but I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between different US accents. It's really what you're exposed to most.

I guess though because we have so much US television the American accent isn't so unusual to us. To be honest, the Aussie accent when I hear an Australian on an American show sounds really jarring and fake, even if it's an actual Australian. Every time there was an Australian on Lost it just sounded bizarre because the American accent sounds more "normal" in that context.

[tabaqui]

We tend to sort of lump them all together - i think a lot of American's don't think of NZ as it's own country, you know? Weird.

Heh - we tend to think any accent we hear is 'right' - oh, that character is from Scotland - scottish accent! Even though people *from* Scotland are like 'wth is that?'


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