The Great Canadian Assign a Voice To The Poster Thread
 

This 'tongue in cheek thread" can go two ways. It can die a slow death, or it can get some amusing responses,

Call me crazy, but whenever I read some of your posts, I almost instinctively think of a character when I read them to myself..Not always, but YES some of you do get a voice assignment,

For example, I really like reading your posts Molson and Kool Maudit, but I can't help myself with both of you..Molson, I hear James Spader in his role from the Blacklist, and Kool, I consistently hear Michael J.Fox.

Am I close?

Anyone else, or am I just nutz for dreaming up this silly thread idea?

Remember folks..For fun, and completely tongue in cheek!

Harls obviously sounds like House. He can change his avatar as much as he likes now, but that is stuck with me.

Ha! I really don't know who I would sound like, in terms of a public figure. I don't know that I sound that much like Michael J. Fox, but I like the classic Cancon angle.

It's just my imagination running a little rampant when I imprint the text and sentence structure when I read HA! Bear in mind, this is Michael in his hey day..It's a good thing.He was quite likeable as a personality.

You've moved around a lot and lived abroad for a long time. What has that done to your accent?

You should disclose if you sound like the Swedish Chef.

That would be much more interesting. Sadly, the effect of these dislocations (I haven't lived primarily among my fellow English-Canadians since I was a teenager) is a sort of flattening.

One funny thing is that, having had to use both US English and UK English for nearly my entire career at various venues, it's pretty normal-feeling to type a sentence like "he specialises in the blending of colors", so sometimes it's like what a foreigner, having heard about Canadian English in an aside, might assume it looks like. But to be honest, at this point I am without preference in that, and just use them all interchangably.

Spoken, I've ended up as someone who sounds like they are from the US Midwest but finds it normal to call (for example) a baby's pacifier a "dummy" rather than a "binky" or a "soother".

I'm sort of the Bulgarian bootleg "USA South Dakota Surf Champion" T-shirt of spoken English.

I assume you have fared better?

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And now me!..I just read his post in the skyline thread, and it kind of works..Prior to that, I think I defaulted to a slightly sarcastic Keanu Reeves.:D

And you?

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Ha! He looks too serious, but sure.. You can assign him to me..Maybe my user name influenced your voice assignment? :cheers:

Hate to say it but I think I probably sound a bit like Justin Trudeau.

Though my grammar and vocabulary are better. In both languages.

Despite growing up in PEI, I most certainly don't sound like an Islander.

The rural PEI accent is pretty distinctive, but people from Charlottetown (where I grew up) sound much more stereotypically Canadian. For my own part, somehow I developed a fairly clipped mid-Atlantic accent for some reason. I don't know where this came from. I speak quickly, enunciate clearly and there is most certainly no drawl.

For MolsonExport I hear Stephen Colbert.

For SignalHillHiker it is Doug McKenzie. (I know he is a proud Newfie, but no one is more Canadian on here than him).

For Acejack it is Jordan Peterson.

For Dleaung (can’t quite remember the spelling…) it is Randy Marsh when he is being sarcastic.

For WhipperSnapper it is Biff from Back to the Future,

Acajack, both you and Moncton are hard to pin down for me, although when I read your posts you come off as a stocky community involved Anglo first and foremost, and not a francophone..Moncton, I only envision a well educated liberal type. Younger than what you probably are.In my mind's eye . both of you are both white collar types, who also know how to put on your boots and get dirty if need be. Molson, you could also be a less stodgy Brian Mulroney, but I can't shake the James Spader in The Blacklist. Harley, maybe it's your avatar and unassuming presence, but I sort of hear Linus while your are presenting those glorious Ottawa images. SignalHillHunter is another tough one for me, and maybe he posted an image of himself before, but I see a fairly young easy going slim Newfoundlander who, like Acajack or Moncton, I can't equate to any voice or known personality.

Haha! That's funny because IRL everyday I am anything but. Though due to where I grew up I can easily fit the part.

"I'm sort of the Bulgarian bootleg "USA South Dakota Surf Champion" T-shirt of spoken English."

Hah!

Pretty much everything you say sounds like what I'm going through. I never thought I'd unironically say shit like "bloke" or "sausage sizzle" but it sneaks up on you.

At least it's all English. I work in English and my job depends on keeping my head straight. My wife is a cautionary tale--a font of mewling German exclamations (manooo!) and butchered syntax.

I'll see what Canadians think next time I'm back. It's been a few years.

My mom and I talk a lot, but when she has my sister and I in the same room, she notices that we really don't sound the same, and the gap is probably widening.

One thing I tend to absorb on the domestic front are literal translations. Like in Swedish, sweatpants are mjukisbyxor, or "soft pants". So now I just say soft pants.

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I'd describe his sound as "Educated Hoser". A Super Deluxe Elite version of the Preston Manning sound.

I don't think I sound like that.

My flow in English is very good but not quite 100% like a true native speaker (who probably only speaks English every day of his life) would have.

There is a certain lazy ease that usually accompanies that.

Mousquet is Serge Gainsbourg somewhere between "Bonnie and Clyde" and the Whitney Houston interview.

Thank you so much for putting this back into my mind after so many years!