Women's Voices
Jul 18th 2016, 1:45 pm
#46
Deep in the woods of CT
Joined: Feb 2010
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Re: Women's Voices
All the love to Rete, we go way back. 
Incidentally, I took drama classes all through high school.
However, I didn't take a college level speech class until I was 40 years old. It was very interesting and I did fairly well but I suffered with MAJOR stage fright. The class was mostly people half my age (or less) with a couple of older students but mostly young people. I think that I benefitted from having been exposed to so much life and having worked for decades in demanding situations, I knew how to speak.
Jul 18th 2016, 1:55 pm
#47
Joined: Dec 2001
Location: Dixie, ex UK
Posts: 52,574
Re: Women's Voices
An apostrophe denotes one or more missing letters and yet no letters have been removed from between the "a" and the "ll" in "you all".
..... Which is also how I say it too, albeit with a Yorkshire accent. 
and I'll never change.
Jul 19th 2016, 12:00 am
#52
Crazy Cat Lady
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Re: Women's Voices
We had Julia Gillard as PM for three years. She was hated by a large proportion of people and not just because of her policies or how she got the job. People hated her voice and it was constantly commented on. No male PM ever gets that sort of treatment. Can't say it bothered me but it seriously upset loads. 
Jul 19th 2016, 1:06 am
#53
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: East Seaxe
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Re: Women's Voices
Thanks for the second article, I hadn't read that one yet and it absolutely addresses some of the notions that I think make this an interesting discussion. BUT ... OMG .... what in the actual ****????
One Old Etonian told a tabloid newspaper that on the occasions women were admitted to club events — only for drinks, not formal dinners — they were treated “like fillies.” And not prized as thoroughbreds, he said: “We would make them get down on all fours like a horse, whinny, and bring out hunting horns and whips.”
One Old Etonian told a tabloid newspaper that on the occasions women were admitted to club events — only for drinks, not formal dinners — they were treated “like fillies.” And not prized as thoroughbreds, he said: “We would make them get down on all fours like a horse, whinny, and bring out hunting horns and whips.”
Jul 19th 2016, 11:26 am
#54
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Re: Women's Voices
We had Julia Gillard as PM for three years. She was hated by a large proportion of people and not just because of her policies or how she got the job. People hated her voice and it was constantly commented on. No male PM ever gets that sort of treatment. Can't say it bothered me but it seriously upset loads.
Jul 20th 2016, 3:29 am
#55
Bloody Yank
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: USA! USA!
Posts: 4,186
Re: Women's Voices
We had Julia Gillard as PM for three years. She was hated by a large proportion of people and not just because of her policies or how she got the job. People hated her voice and it was constantly commented on. No male PM ever gets that sort of treatment. Can't say it bothered me but it seriously upset loads.
Jul 20th 2016, 6:59 am
#56
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Location: Cayman Islands
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Re: Women's Voices
*** Indeed, there are many Bristolians who subconsciously don't feel comfortable ending a word with a vowel-sound. It's the obverse of the strong Italian-language preference for adding a final vowel to so many nouns.
Jul 20th 2016, 7:53 am
#57
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Location: california
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Re: Women's Voices
There were several strong nouns used whenever Thatcher was mentioned around Yorkshire parts. Now there was a woman with a voice.
