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May. 19th, 2004 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeSo, I promised ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pleroma an thoughtful dissertation, or at least a somewhat clever few words, on why women want to have aural sex.
This brought on, of course, by my current Vin Diesel fascination. What is it with me and muscle guys lately? Last month it was Ron Perlman in Hellboy.
He's right, when I think about it. Most women do find something sexy about deep and vibrant voices. And in my case I throw in a bit of gravel for some kick. Vin Diesel, Michael Wincott. There was one other that was just perfectly divine, and I can't rem-- Alan Rickman. Alan Rickman is the third in the Voice of Sex trilogie. To quote Eddie Izzard. Um. So that's pretty much down: women love deep voices. Why? I don't know why. I'm guessing because there's something evolutionarily stimulating about deep voices. Or it's just a sign of masculinity, like really big and colourful tails or head creasts or being able to bob your head longer and faster than any other lizard on the block.
Accents. Accents might be trickier, considering that it's less a matter of what you were born with and more a matter of where you were born. Which also has something to do with it, but less. There was a point there and it's been lost in the fuzz that accumulates on my head after I've just woken up.
I have to agree with the Merovingian on this one, French is a beautiful language. German is a fun language to curse in, especially since everything sounds like a curse, or very nearly to this highly American ear. There's an infamous friend of a friend tale I know wherein a man terrorized his cousin by putting on a (Rammstein?) German metal band song in the car. She, being religious and a bit of a nut, thought they were summoning the devil. He played along until she threatened to jump out of the moving truck, at which point he told her it was just a recipe for cookies. And it was. Russian... I've always found something very fluid about Russian. Not quite so much as French, but still nice. Spanish I have no perspective on, as I grew up speaking the bloody language. It sounds almost the same to me as English, in a bizarre sense. Chinese is liquid and musical until you get to the singing; almost as if to make up for the musical aspect you get what sound (to my very Western ear) almost like deliberate atonalities. It's definitely an acquired taste. Japanese sounds like machine gun fire. I shit you not. Most North Native American languages and dialects I've heard sound a lot like the native sounds around them: water running through a creek, the occasional mudslide, animals scurrying in the underbrush, that sort of thing.
Accents. I'm tempted to do a poll, now, to see what kind of accents people like and what other aural tastes they have. Barring that I'll just have to go on my own perception: the more varied tastes in music you have, I think, the more accents you'll find pleasing. Me, I like just about anything but rap and the really mainstream country. And I find that just about any accent pleases me, as long as there's a lot of variation. I prefer just about any accent to the standard American flat voice. I swear. Booring. If you prefer certain types of sounds, then certain types of accents will appeal. It's interesting that a lot of people (for a highly subjective view of 'a lot of people') seem entranced by Spanish and French accents, slightly less so by Eastern European and Russian accents, and not at all by Japanese, Chinese accents. No one thinks Native Americans have accents, but they do. It's faint, but it's there. More of a rhythm and cadence change than an accent.
And now for something completely different.
I don't know why Americans go ga-ga over the British. Over British accents. I know I go ga-ga over the sheer amount of variation in dialect, cadence, tones, everything. For such a small island they have such a variety of voice! Possibly because of all the sub-languages, whereas we were pretty much a two-or-three language country/group of colonists. And... well, I have no idea why the American accent got flattened out with a steamroller. My best guess on why Americans go ga-ga over British accents is for the same reason they like Spanish and the occasional French accent (if it's not too overdone): musicality. A lot of the tastes and values in tone and pitch are the same, so it sounds musical to the ear.
Right. That's the second time I've derailed the train of thought here, so I'm going to stop. And maybe when I wake up more I'll have a little more insight, or at least more coherence...
pleroma an thoughtful dissertation, or at least a somewhat clever few words, on why women want to have aural sex.This brought on, of course, by my current Vin Diesel fascination. What is it with me and muscle guys lately? Last month it was Ron Perlman in Hellboy.
He's right, when I think about it. Most women do find something sexy about deep and vibrant voices. And in my case I throw in a bit of gravel for some kick. Vin Diesel, Michael Wincott. There was one other that was just perfectly divine, and I can't rem-- Alan Rickman. Alan Rickman is the third in the Voice of Sex trilogie. To quote Eddie Izzard. Um. So that's pretty much down: women love deep voices. Why? I don't know why. I'm guessing because there's something evolutionarily stimulating about deep voices. Or it's just a sign of masculinity, like really big and colourful tails or head creasts or being able to bob your head longer and faster than any other lizard on the block.
Accents. Accents might be trickier, considering that it's less a matter of what you were born with and more a matter of where you were born. Which also has something to do with it, but less. There was a point there and it's been lost in the fuzz that accumulates on my head after I've just woken up.
I have to agree with the Merovingian on this one, French is a beautiful language. German is a fun language to curse in, especially since everything sounds like a curse, or very nearly to this highly American ear. There's an infamous friend of a friend tale I know wherein a man terrorized his cousin by putting on a (Rammstein?) German metal band song in the car. She, being religious and a bit of a nut, thought they were summoning the devil. He played along until she threatened to jump out of the moving truck, at which point he told her it was just a recipe for cookies. And it was. Russian... I've always found something very fluid about Russian. Not quite so much as French, but still nice. Spanish I have no perspective on, as I grew up speaking the bloody language. It sounds almost the same to me as English, in a bizarre sense. Chinese is liquid and musical until you get to the singing; almost as if to make up for the musical aspect you get what sound (to my very Western ear) almost like deliberate atonalities. It's definitely an acquired taste. Japanese sounds like machine gun fire. I shit you not. Most North Native American languages and dialects I've heard sound a lot like the native sounds around them: water running through a creek, the occasional mudslide, animals scurrying in the underbrush, that sort of thing.
Accents. I'm tempted to do a poll, now, to see what kind of accents people like and what other aural tastes they have. Barring that I'll just have to go on my own perception: the more varied tastes in music you have, I think, the more accents you'll find pleasing. Me, I like just about anything but rap and the really mainstream country. And I find that just about any accent pleases me, as long as there's a lot of variation. I prefer just about any accent to the standard American flat voice. I swear. Booring. If you prefer certain types of sounds, then certain types of accents will appeal. It's interesting that a lot of people (for a highly subjective view of 'a lot of people') seem entranced by Spanish and French accents, slightly less so by Eastern European and Russian accents, and not at all by Japanese, Chinese accents. No one thinks Native Americans have accents, but they do. It's faint, but it's there. More of a rhythm and cadence change than an accent.
And now for something completely different.
I don't know why Americans go ga-ga over the British. Over British accents. I know I go ga-ga over the sheer amount of variation in dialect, cadence, tones, everything. For such a small island they have such a variety of voice! Possibly because of all the sub-languages, whereas we were pretty much a two-or-three language country/group of colonists. And... well, I have no idea why the American accent got flattened out with a steamroller. My best guess on why Americans go ga-ga over British accents is for the same reason they like Spanish and the occasional French accent (if it's not too overdone): musicality. A lot of the tastes and values in tone and pitch are the same, so it sounds musical to the ear.
Right. That's the second time I've derailed the train of thought here, so I'm going to stop. And maybe when I wake up more I'll have a little more insight, or at least more coherence...
