Blog voices
I read a few blogs now and again, by different people of different nationality and gender. But when I read, the voice in my head that’s reading the words sounds the same, no matter what sex the person is.
I find this quite weird, because obviously when I’m speaking to someone I can hear their voice and it doesn’t sound like my reading voice.
It got me thinking because I’ve noticed that even my own text, when I read it aloud, sounds totally different from how it “should” sound according to what it sounds like in my head. Even if I got the blog authors to read their posts aloud, they wouldn’t sound like how the authors heard them.
(This got me to thinking about how, without telepathy, we’re all really alone, but not really because I wanted to put that in as a joke.)
I find it interesting how we all relate to each other, even though we can’t hear each others thoughts or see through each others’ eyes and think with each others’ brains. Our relationships rely on us all being a little bit the same, which is totally weird because we’re all so different.
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Mark! It’s been too long. We must catch up properly. I’m in Manchester these days, you know.
In the meantime, I totally know what you mean. This is a massive topic I have lingered only briefly on at various points but it is weird…. All of it is weird - I can’t even finish that last sentence because it’s so odd. Even the way I’m writing this is different to the way I’d have said it to you if we were talking using soundwaves. And, yes, when I read your post, I wasn’t imagining your own voice. And how incredibly differently must people view the world, given the vastly varying ways they respond to it. (Some people, for example, wouldn’t have even gotten excited about my amazing alliterations, you know!.) So, so odd… anyway, I’d better stop now. Sorry for filling up your site with random waffle! You wouldn’t want that, now, I’m sure. :)