Friday, June 27, 2008
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“Please call Stella…”

Here is my reading of the script for The Speech Accent Archive, which has fascinated me for most of the night.

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

I say “…brother Bob…” kind of strangely but, other than that, I think this pretty much sounds like me. Apart from how hearing yourself speak is kind of weird.