> Accents sound a lot > better in your own head than they do spoken aloud. >
John and I were talking about this the other night. not about accents but how our own voices sound different to us in our heads. I have been surprised to discover that to other opeople I have quite a deep speaking voice. to me it sounds high. John has a very deep voice-really deep-to the extetent that he is difficult to hear at times. Doesn't help that his voice his quiet. We were also talkign about singing. I was amzed to hear him tell me I have a good singing voice. I didn't think so. He said yes you have but the reason you have difficulty singing is ebacuse all your singers are female and their songs are written in the key for their voices and not yours! I never knew that. So I asked if I could sing them then if they were in a different key or 'trsansposed' was a word he ued which althought he explained what that meant, I don't get it. So i said, well I can't simng Bridge Over Troubled Water and that was written by a man(men?). Again he explained that it was becasue of the way it was written and that this song probably could not be changed in key because it would ruin the song. The key is integral to some songs, it seems. Noew I can sing a long to most of Tracy Chap,mans songs so obvuiosly her key is about what mine would be.
