Posted by: Bridget ®
02/11/2004, 09:23:07
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Hi Mike,Thanks for the morning laugh. I wonder what "accent" it sounds like you have?! Can't say anyone has ever noted an accent in my voice, just the usual "Wow. Why are you at work with that horrible cold!?" or my all time favorite comment was: "Did you just wake up?" when I answered the phone in the middle of the day at work! People ask me that one all the time. Bridget
MTD/Toronto, Canada
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Posted by: fancynancy ®
02/11/2004, 12:36:19
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Cool! At least it was a complinemt.The same thing happened to me once, only in person. I live in an apartment complex, and someone was looking at a vacant apt. As I walked by, the gentleman asked me some questions. It was a brief conversation, but he says "May I ask where you're from? I notice you have a nice accent...Are you from Europe?" I should've went along (lol), but instead explained my AB SD. Recently I was on the phone with someone when my voice acted up, and they thought I was breaking up on a cell phone! --fancynancy--
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Posted by: Ida ®
02/11/2004, 14:00:52
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My voice is better when I speak with an accent. Sometimes I will go into a Southern or British accent when I am having a hard time getting the words out. Worked well when I was doing theater. I looked for parts that called for an accent.
Have also experienced people telling me my cell phone was breaking up or that there was a lot of static on the line.
Ida
ADS for 26 years
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Posted by: kfeeley ®
02/12/2004, 20:06:50
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I've never been told that I have an accent, but I have been told that I sound like Katherine Hepburn. That can't be all bad, can it? (If only I had her bank account, too!)-Karen
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Posted by: ems ®
02/12/2004, 20:38:19
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Actually, I get mistaken quite often for a Japanese tourist who speaks broken English at the retail shops and they then speak very slowly to you (they don't realise it's good English in broken voice!). Anyhow, I always just play along - saves the explaining - plus Japanese tourists get pretty good treatment because of their spending power.Many other times, people think it is a poor mobile connection and call back again. If it is a one-off inconsequential call, I don't bother to explain. Sometimes as an opener, I tell people I have a voice condition and then joke that I'm not trying to sound sexy although I do, and it gets a few laughs and a more relaxed atmosphere (for me included) Emily L
Ab-sd, Singapore
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Posted by: PJSmith ®
02/13/2004, 14:28:21
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I really loved all the responses on this thread! See its not all gloom and doom having SD. When I was working in the staffing business back in Chicago I had my male clients call just to listen to my "sexy voice". When I would respond it was a medical condition they would say "whatever it is DON'T FIX IT"! Pat
AB/SD
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Posted by: Pat ®
02/13/2004, 15:22:22
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I have had AD SD for 8 almost 9 years, my oldest grandchildren who are both 14, does not remember when I had a voice, after I had my first botox shot,our family went to the beach, the grandchildren got too far out into the water, and I whistled for them, and they responed. Now we have a certain whistle for "come here", a whistle for "stop that", a whistle for "I am here", and a whistle for "that is great". The grandchildren all eleven of them now, understands the whistles and we communicate great.
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Posted by: kayt ®
02/17/2004, 16:07:18
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i have been offered senior citizen discounts by the airlines when i call to make reservations and i am only 40.
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Posted by: lynnr ®
02/25/2004, 22:24:53
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Ha! Ha! I love this thread![I've posted this one before, but I think it's worth repeating :-)] My favorite comment was made to me this winter by a sweet lady in her late 80's, who had overheard me talking to another customer: "Oh, Dear... (as she wrapped her arm around me in a very grandmotherly way)... are you...cold??" We should develop a top ten list :-)
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