Reply To: Please call Stella (aka What do you sound like?)
It just seems like somebody has a rather smelly and potentially frightening practical joke in mind, and poor Stella, exhausted from her journey, maybe bringing them all nice prezzies from Ibiza or Coney Island or Skegness or wherever the hell she’s been, is going to get a very unpleasant awakening very soon.
You almost made me choke on my French toast.
Woohoo, the blink tag seems to be ignored by my browser!
I re-uploaded my Stella recording, which I made in August 2006. Previously, I just looked on the ftp server and saw a file called Stella.mp3, but didn’t notice that it was 0 bytes. Now it should work. So, Colleenky and others, here’s a mostly-south of the equator accent (though I had been north of the equator for almost a year and a half at that point) I might re-do it later tonight (without listening to the first one) to find out whether I have an ‘International English’ accent yet. Though I doubt either of them will be a representative sample. I switch between rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations randomly, and since I moved to Switzerland, my pronunciation of ‘data’ has been oscillating at a rate of roughly twice per sentence.
Right, now to listen to all yours…