 Linguistic Research - Help Needed |
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 Jun 14 2004, 08:13 PM
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 Remorseless posting machine  Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male  |
I have an assignment to carry out some linguistic research that you guys can have the privilege of helping me with! If anybody can help, I'd be really grateful.
I'm looking for you if you're:
What I need for you to do is to record yourself saying this: Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station. I also need you to fill out this questionnaire: 1) Name: (For my own reference only; this will be completely anonymous) 2) Age: 3) Sex: 4) Ethnicity: 5) City/town of residence: 6) State of residence: 7) Are you a native English speaker? 8) If not, what is your native language?* 9) When did you start learning English?* 10) How did you learn English?* 11) Have you always lived where you currently live? 12) If not, for how long have you lived there?** 13) Where were you born, and how long did you live there?** 14) If you have lived in more than two different places, please provide a brief outlining of where you have lived and for how long:** * These questions only need to be answered if you answered 7) in the negative. If you did not, ignore them. ** These questions only need to be answered if you answered 11) in the negative. If you did not, ignore them. If you decide to help me, in which case you're awesome and great and wonderful, please e-mail me at sean (at) urban-freakshow.com with the questionnaire filled out, the sound file attached (preferably in .mp3 form, but I'm not too fussed) and the subject header "Research Response". [We get email reaper programs scanning this site so I've altered your email address to say (at) instead of @ so you don't get bombarded with junk - Mata] If you can't do this, check back here - there may be other stuff I need you for that doesn't involve recording your voice. Thanks very much to anyone who took their time to read this far  Edit: Whoops, forgot an important question! -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Jun 14 2004, 09:02 PM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 1,767 Joined: 9-June 03 From: North Carolina Member No.: 374 Gender: Male |
I'll be glad to do it. Do you know of a program that'll transfer .wav files to .mp3? Or maybe a recording program that records in .mp3?
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Jun 14 2004, 09:43 PM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
I think this program can do the conversion job - if anyone knows of another, do tell me.
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Jun 15 2004, 02:05 AM
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 Confused. Very Very Confused. Group: Established Members Posts: 400 Joined: 10-February 04 Member No.: 941 |
I can't help you with the voice recording, as I don't have a microphone, but if you need anything else from a resident of Canada, I will be glad to help you out.
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Jun 15 2004, 03:52 AM
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 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons Group: New Members Posts: 807 Joined: 15-June 03 From: Sacramento, California Member No.: 383 |
This sounds like fun, but I have to see if my mic works first. (I have never used it, it's one of those cheapie kinds, and it's lying on the floor broken in half and collecting dust...umm....) I'll give it a try tonight or tomorrow and hopefully get something sent to you. Yay.
-------------------- And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume? ~T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Jun 15 2004, 04:22 AM
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 Kiefer > Jason Group: Admin Posts: 9,698 Joined: 26-February 03 From: UK Member No.: 51 Gender: Female |
I recorded one and sent it, although I don't know how good it sounded because I don't have speakers hooked up to hear it.
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Jun 15 2004, 04:34 AM
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 I could have written a short novel by this point Group: Established Members Posts: 1,959 Joined: 12-May 04 From: Victoria B.C. Member No.: 1,112 Gender: Female |
I have the same situation as Aria. Sorry.
A friend who did telemarketing once remarked that there was at least three different southern twangs. As well a haligonian is going to sound different from someone in lotus land. East vs West coast. Good luck in your research. --------------------      It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. - SpeakertotheLost |
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Jun 15 2004, 06:34 AM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Ashbless @ Jun 15 2004, 05:34 AM) A friend who did telemarketing once remarked that there was at least three different southern twangs. As well a haligonian is going to sound different from someone in lotus land. East vs West coast. That's why I'm using North America - there's such a great variation in regional accents, it's a goldmine. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Jun 15 2004, 06:36 AM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (LoLo @ Jun 15 2004, 05:22 AM) I recorded one and sent it, although I don't know how good it sounded because I don't have speakers hooked up to hear it. Thanks a bunch, Lo! 
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Jun 15 2004, 05:31 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 1,767 Joined: 9-June 03 From: North Carolina Member No.: 374 Gender: Male |
Done and sent. There, now you've got your redneck and G. Bush soundalike covered.
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Jun 15 2004, 05:53 PM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
Thanks, Vic! I'm getting a wide variety already...
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Jun 23 2004, 03:52 AM
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I could have written a short novel by this point Group: Established Members Posts: 1,959 Joined: 12-May 04 From: Victoria B.C. Member No.: 1,112 Gender: Female |
How is the research going?
-------------------- It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. - SpeakertotheLost |
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Jun 23 2004, 05:06 PM
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 I'm an inefficient bear. Maul. Group: Established Members Posts: 1,968 Joined: 21-June 03 From: carlinville illinois Member No.: 408 Gender: Female |
i would send you my happy sothern drawl mix with chicago accent thing... but like others i have no mic... im happy to help elswhere tho!
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Jun 23 2004, 05:30 PM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Ashbless @ Jun 23 2004, 04:52 AM) How is the research going? The research, sadly, was cancelled due to technical difficulties  Thanks, everybody who helped, shame I couldn't do it.
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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