Here's that poll!

[conuly]

And I know you listened and are prepared, yes?

[Poll #936001]

Please vote, thank you.

Comments

[malantha.livejournal.com]

A lot of parts were sort of muffled but you sounded normal to me, without a New York accent. I only put "Not really" for the first one because there's a possibility that in the muffled part, you were speaking strangely. ;P

[conuly]

Of course, given that I define "sounding weird" as "not having a New York accent" (and yes, this means that the majority of the world "sounds weird" to me!), this isn't exactly reassuring :P

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

A) I couldn't tell a New York accent from my foot, unless it was a movie-like exaggeration of one, and even it's not a sure bet.
B) Phone posts are by there very nature muffled, so I might change my opinion if I were able to hear you better. (BTW, my opinion is that you don't sound weird and you don't particularly have a New York accent.)

[conuly]

1. That's fair.
2. Yeah, I know. If I could set up a video, I'd love to do that instead, but so far... no go.

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

I do not think you sound weird, or that you have a New York accent. My cat thinks you sound weird, but I think that may be because you sound a bit like me, and I was clearly not speaking...

[appadil.livejournal.com]

I said that you sounded somewhat weird, but I can't tell how much of that is your weirdness and how much is a combination of phone-post garbling and my CAPD. There were points where I couldn't really tell what you were saying.

For the record, I'm from Ohio, I don't think of accents as "sounding weird", and you didn't sound particularly accented to me.

[conuly]

So I sound like folks from Ohio?

[appadil.livejournal.com]

More accurately, you sound like folks who don't sound particularly accented to me- which happens to include people from several geographically distant states like Washington and Colorado as well.

[rachelkachel]

The only part that sounded like a New York accent to me was when you said your name, the vowel sound on the first syllable. A lot of it was muffled, though, and you talked faster than I'm used to, so maybe that's New York as well... but most of what I could hear sounded like a standard American (tm) accent. *shrug*

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

You sound freaky-odd! :)

[malantha.livejournal.com]

A lot of parts were sort of muffled but you sounded normal to me, without a New York accent. I only put "Not really" for the first one because there's a possibility that in the muffled part, you were speaking strangely. ;P

[conuly]

Of course, given that I define "sounding weird" as "not having a New York accent" (and yes, this means that the majority of the world "sounds weird" to me!), this isn't exactly reassuring :P

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

A) I couldn't tell a New York accent from my foot, unless it was a movie-like exaggeration of one, and even it's not a sure bet.
B) Phone posts are by there very nature muffled, so I might change my opinion if I were able to hear you better. (BTW, my opinion is that you don't sound weird and you don't particularly have a New York accent.)

[conuly]

1. That's fair.
2. Yeah, I know. If I could set up a video, I'd love to do that instead, but so far... no go.

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

I do not think you sound weird, or that you have a New York accent. My cat thinks you sound weird, but I think that may be because you sound a bit like me, and I was clearly not speaking...

[appadil.livejournal.com]

I said that you sounded somewhat weird, but I can't tell how much of that is your weirdness and how much is a combination of phone-post garbling and my CAPD. There were points where I couldn't really tell what you were saying.

For the record, I'm from Ohio, I don't think of accents as "sounding weird", and you didn't sound particularly accented to me.

[conuly]

So I sound like folks from Ohio?

[appadil.livejournal.com]

More accurately, you sound like folks who don't sound particularly accented to me- which happens to include people from several geographically distant states like Washington and Colorado as well.

[rachelkachel]

The only part that sounded like a New York accent to me was when you said your name, the vowel sound on the first syllable. A lot of it was muffled, though, and you talked faster than I'm used to, so maybe that's New York as well... but most of what I could hear sounded like a standard American (tm) accent. *shrug*

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

You sound freaky-odd! :)

[pthalo]

I picked both "I can't hear" and "you don't have a new york accent" which probably requires some explaining. I have CAPD and I couldn't hear you well enough to figure out what you were saying, I think the only thing I got out of the 110 seconds of it was "i sound weird" (with a "do" or a "whether" or a "that" before it), and that's not enough information for whether you sound weird, but i could tell it wasn't a new york accent.

[conuly]

I was about to ask how on earth you're finding all these old polls, but then I remembered I'd tagged them. D'oh!

Long time no see, by the way. How are you?

[pthalo]

I really should have commented, explaining myself.

I'm here via a comment you left in leora's journal regarding her inability to take polls without leaving comments because your radio buttons don't fit her as well as she'd like, and I'm bored and putting off sleep and so looking at the polls in question seemed like a good idea, and since you'd tagged them so nicely, I figured I might as well. I even answered the one about what you should bake for something (mint brownies and I want a recipe, but I can google around), even though I'm sure the baked goods are long eaten. I hope you don't mind, I'm just bored. :)

I'm hanging in there. 2009 has been incredibly sucky and I've been sick with strep throat (which was immediately preceded by the flu, so this is week 6 of the sick, but I'm almost better). i've missed hanging out with friends and stuff. i managed to worry my mother by having strep throat, and being sick and non verbal and having to pause to remember what word came next after each word in a sentence, so she's coming to visit me all the way from america next week, by which time i hopefully shall be even more better than i am now (i'm 90% better), because she sent an e-mail to a group of people here in Hungary, not realising I'm a member of said group, saying not to tell me but she's worried and wants to take me home with her (which would be bad for all sorts of reasons, the main one being that i have a life here and i need to be independent, not sitting on a couch in my mother's house waiting for months to be allowed to go home, like I was last summer.)

So I'm gearing up for two weeks of calming her down and being on my very best, fully functioning and capable adult behaviour.

How are you doing?