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Posted: September 28 2012 at 05:24
Dean wrote:
^ great Big Bang Theory quote, one of Sheldon Cooper's best, which for some reason I'm now reading in a "Pavel Chekov" accent, vhich is wery peculiar. I think I should go back and read the Libetarian thread in BBT voices and the Shred room in South Park voices to see if they make more sense like that.
If only we could put microphones inside peoples' heads to hear what these British accents sounded like...
I really don't think that you would want to hear the voices in my head.
If only we could put microphones inside peoples' heads to hear what these British accents sounded like...
You don't know how a microphone works, do you?
I know how beer works.
You would need a device other than a microphone to detect brainwaves silly. I'm not even drunk yet and I know that!
I was using simplistic layman terms, sure it would require a different form of detector - EEG's simply measure the electrical impulses of neurons within the brain and to do that all that is needed is a pair of electrodes and some saline solution; similarly any disturbance of an electromagnetic field created by the flow of electricity from one neuron to another (which is more what thought is likely to be) could be detected using an induction coil; and it is not implausible that both these phenomena occurring within the brain cause involuntary movement in the vocal chords which, while not voiced, could be made audible, As I do know how a microphone works, all of the component parts needed to make detectors of all these measurable events can be fabricated from a microphone. However. None of these would enable us to hear what these accents sound like in someone's head, brainwaves themselves don't transmit thought information, they are a measure of brain activity relating to various tasks. if only....
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Posted: September 27 2012 at 20:08
Epignosis wrote:
Dean wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Dean wrote:
If only we could put microphones inside peoples' heads to hear what these British accents sounded like...
You don't know how a microphone works, do you?
I know how beer works.
You would need a device other than a microphone to detect brainwaves silly. I'm not even drunk yet and I know that!
I was using simplistic layman terms, sure it would require a different form of detector - EEG's simply measure the electrical impulses of neurons within the brain and to do that all that is needed is a pair of electrodes and some saline solution; similarly any disturbance of an electromagnetic field created by the flow of electricity from one neuron to another (which is more what thought is likely to be) could be detected using an induction coil; and it is not implausible that both these phenomena occurring within the brain cause involuntary movement in the vocal chords which, while not voiced, could be made audible, As I do know how a microphone works, all of the component parts needed to make detectors of all these measurable events can be fabricated from a microphone. However. None of these would enable us to hear what these accents sound like in someone's head, brainwaves themselves don't transmit thought information, they are a measure of brain activity relating to various tasks. if only....
What the f**k is going on here. Sorry, but this site is ridiculous. You all want to know why people are leaving in droves? Well, it's because you act like spoilt children. Take a look at your posts again, remember what it felt like to stop and apply any semblance of logic? Nobody wants to see a multi-page rant about self-projected egoistic verbiage in a thread about accents. Read this in whatever accent you want, the message is the same. Grow up.
Rant over.
Beautiful
More beautiful because I chose to read it in a British Accent
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Posted: September 27 2012 at 19:17
CPicard wrote:
CCVP wrote:
CPicard wrote:
Being born in Marseille, I'm rather used to the Southern French accent. If you want to hear good examples of this accent, try to watch movies with Fernandel or Raimu: it may make people from Provence not sounding very... serious, but it has its charms. I won't say it could remind of the Northern Italian accent, but...
On the other hand, the typical Parisian accent is... I mean, I'm glad this accent is disappearing because it sounds like someone clearing his throat before spitting. I also have problems with the accent of the suburbs which just sound... coarse and vulgar and aggressive.
The accent of Northern France (Lille, Roubaix, the towns close to the Belgian frontier) is quite exotic to my ears: people there seem to speak with a deeper tone than anyone else, but alas! they don't sound...er, bright.
Don't you speak occitan anymore?
Who told you I ever spoke occitan??? Furthermore, which occitan? Provençal occitan? Languedocian occitan? Gascon occitan?
I supposed you spoke it because Marseille is in Occitania, even though the language has been practically killed by Frenchmen during the 19th and 20th centuries. In any way, I thought people still spoke it around that part of France in their day to day lives.
As for the specific sort of occitan, I have no idea.
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Posted: September 27 2012 at 19:13
^ great Big Bang Theory quote, one of Sheldon Cooper's best, which for some reason I'm now reading in a "Pavel Chekov" accent, vhich is wery peculiar. I think I should go back and read the Libetarian thread in BBT voices and the Shred room in South Park voices to see if they make more sense like that.
If only we could put microphones inside peoples' heads to hear what these British accents sounded like...
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