I enjoy speaking with different accents.
Even more than I like to read them. Writing them so people can read them is a gift. My attempt at 'here and now' for the title, is meant to be low scottish. Atleast in my head.
I remember watching a Dharma&Greg episode where Dharma used a german accent and went shopping at the mall. If it didn't feel like lieing I would probably have SO much fun doing that!
I had a part in 'OKLAHOMA' when the music department presented it in high School. After that I had a difficult time not slipping into a drawl when I spoke. If I got excited I would add the 'L' in talk and walk. We did 'My Fair Lady' the following year and I could even add a drawl to the cockney accent. I would blame it on being born in Texas although that little fact had nothing to do with it. I learned to talk in the Pacific Northwest. As everyone here knows, we do not have an accent. ;)
I find it interesting that accents can say something about you. Much like the story line in My Fair Lady, how we talk affects how we are treated. Often how we behave as well.
I find that when I speak with a british accent ~ (which is actually a muddle of British - Irish - Scottish with a dash of foolish arrogance derived from American TV) ~ I automatically raise my chin a bit, and throw my shoulders back. No wonder they call it the Queen's english.
I am wondering about speaking more positively. I have thought about this before.
It isn't a new idea. I lived through a period of denying what I see with my eyes in order to bring about what I hoped for in my heart. I believe there is a balance in this but I could not seem to find it. When I denied I was sick, it then felt like lieing to ask for healing. When I miscarried I had no where to put the grief. The words of comfort from others: "It was just a bunch of tissue","you can have another one", sounded just like the words of an abortion counselor ~ it creeped me out a bit.
Words.
I do believe we must look for the bright side of things. I believe this deep inside my heart.
Can I find a new way to speak? Can I change my words? Day to day, I know it is possible. What if kindness was an accent? Think about it . . . if there was a country where the language used the same basic words as was familiar, but there was just an accent that "sounded" kind. Then I could just learn how they speak, sound the words out the way they do, mimic them. sigh.
That is probably why I love old movies. The language of the day was softer, more kind than our language is today.
Maybe, I mean manners.
Please, Thank you, You're welcome, Pardon me*; sweet sounding isn't it ?
I went to the funeral of a dear woman. It was exactly how I would want my services to be, and I said so to a fellow sarcasm artist who raised his eyebrows as if to say,"you?".
"Well, she was alot nicer than I am, but maybe I have time to . ." I tapered off. I am sure he has forgotten the moment - not me.
So, maybe I have time to change and maybe I don't but I have to try. So this is my plan:
~ Implement the use of 'mannerly' language. see above*
~ Put the feelings (& ears) of others first.
~ Hear (listen to, read) more kind words. (kind in = kind out)
~ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Phillipians 4:8,9
Even more than I like to read them. Writing them so people can read them is a gift. My attempt at 'here and now' for the title, is meant to be low scottish. Atleast in my head.
I remember watching a Dharma&Greg episode where Dharma used a german accent and went shopping at the mall. If it didn't feel like lieing I would probably have SO much fun doing that!
I had a part in 'OKLAHOMA' when the music department presented it in high School. After that I had a difficult time not slipping into a drawl when I spoke. If I got excited I would add the 'L' in talk and walk. We did 'My Fair Lady' the following year and I could even add a drawl to the cockney accent. I would blame it on being born in Texas although that little fact had nothing to do with it. I learned to talk in the Pacific Northwest. As everyone here knows, we do not have an accent. ;)
I find it interesting that accents can say something about you. Much like the story line in My Fair Lady, how we talk affects how we are treated. Often how we behave as well.
I find that when I speak with a british accent ~ (which is actually a muddle of British - Irish - Scottish with a dash of foolish arrogance derived from American TV) ~ I automatically raise my chin a bit, and throw my shoulders back. No wonder they call it the Queen's english.
I am wondering about speaking more positively. I have thought about this before.
It isn't a new idea. I lived through a period of denying what I see with my eyes in order to bring about what I hoped for in my heart. I believe there is a balance in this but I could not seem to find it. When I denied I was sick, it then felt like lieing to ask for healing. When I miscarried I had no where to put the grief. The words of comfort from others: "It was just a bunch of tissue","you can have another one", sounded just like the words of an abortion counselor ~ it creeped me out a bit.
Words.
I do believe we must look for the bright side of things. I believe this deep inside my heart.
Can I find a new way to speak? Can I change my words? Day to day, I know it is possible. What if kindness was an accent? Think about it . . . if there was a country where the language used the same basic words as was familiar, but there was just an accent that "sounded" kind. Then I could just learn how they speak, sound the words out the way they do, mimic them. sigh.
That is probably why I love old movies. The language of the day was softer, more kind than our language is today.
Maybe, I mean manners.
Please, Thank you, You're welcome, Pardon me*; sweet sounding isn't it ?
I went to the funeral of a dear woman. It was exactly how I would want my services to be, and I said so to a fellow sarcasm artist who raised his eyebrows as if to say,"you?".
"Well, she was alot nicer than I am, but maybe I have time to . ." I tapered off. I am sure he has forgotten the moment - not me.
So, maybe I have time to change and maybe I don't but I have to try. So this is my plan:
~ Implement the use of 'mannerly' language. see above*
~ Put the feelings (& ears) of others first.
~ Hear (listen to, read) more kind words. (kind in = kind out)
~ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Phillipians 4:8,9
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