Questions for people who've met at A2K meets...

Re: Questions for people who've met at A2K meets...

Mame wrote:

1. Do you hear the person's voice when you read their posts ?

After posting with someone for a while I imagine what they sound like and visualise them too.. when I speak to them in person - OMG - a couple sound as I imagined, but two of them sounded SOOO different - it was really weird hearing them. I have multiple accents, if I talk to someone whose British, I sound fairly British - but talking to the Ozzies and Americans my accent changes dramatically.

Also, after posting with someone for any length of time - when you do get to talk with them for real - it's like talking to a mate - it's easy - even when you haven't even met them - it's just like talking to your friends.

Mame wrote:

2. After having met them, do you distinctly remember who and how they "were" before you met them and discovered who they were?

Soon to find out!!!!!!

Mame wrote:

3. Were your impressions of them correct?

ditto 2

Mame wrote:

4. Do you get their posts better now, ie. the sarcasm, the laughter, etc?

Having spoken (not met) I immediately hear the persons voice as soon as their name pops up - without fail. It's kinda nice to have heard the person and hear their voice whilst reading. As I read - I can hear them talking.

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Mame, you said when you came here that I was different than you had expected. What did you expect? Zany, zoned out, ditzy? Don't leave me swinging in the wind sweetie, I've got to know!

Be gentle...

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Hey Diane...

Well, you're petite-r than I thought you would be and I pictured you with Eva's hair! Laughing

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Mame wrote:

Chai - I don't have an accent, despite what ob1 says. I'm Scottish and English/Canadian but I sound like someone from Seattle (to you all), I suspect. No accent. No accent. No accent. No Indian or French blood. I'm a Pict - a dirty, hairy, swarthy, fighting Pict.

I'll buy the Pict part (except that she has a sweet disposition).

However, the woman has one hell of a Canadian accent !!!! I would never lie about this.

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ob1, "sweet" is not a word most people would think of applying to me. And I guess I do have a Cdn accent - but it's not really noticeable Smile

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Snort!

Eh?

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Good questions Mame. I've had only two encounters with A2Kers; a dinner with Thomas; and a group encounter in San Francisco. I'm not so attuned to the sound of voices (except of course for your own), however, the impressions one forms of the people do last, and they do color one's interpretations of the words read afterwards.

Sglass is a one-of-a-kind, very pleasant figure that I wouldn't anticipate, but won't forget. Others present contrary impressions from what one has read: it has already been noted that Cicerone is very easy-going, polite and considerate in person - not at all the sometimes cranky commentator you read here. Similarly Cyclo is more amiable and open-minded in person than he sometimes appears when arguing a point on the political threads. Francis, however, maintains in person that slightly mysterious and remote air that he presents here, but still an amiable guy with a Gallic wit. Calamity, too presents the same direct, lighthearted, but skeptical air that one sees here. However, It has always hurt my pride to note that she won't take me as seriously as I believe I deserve. I have feelings, Calamity.

I very much wish that I had an opportunity to meet Timberlandko before his death. We had different ideas about many things, but also a common understanding, bred I think from experience, about the important stuff. I would like very much to meet Setanta, if for no other reason than to discover the engaging, interesting guy that I'm sure underlies that gruff, testy, quick-to-anger exterior.

It delighted me to read that some remember me for my (admittedly, loud) laughter. One could do worse.

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Mame is incisive and fast. Speedy brain in the best sense. I can't say I was paying attention to any accent, busy as I was listening to her meaning. Maybe north north CA is not that far from Seattle or Vancouver. Plus California in general is polyglottish.

There is probably some regional stuff going on, and I think Mame has lived across Canada, but so is there with me, a mess of Boston, NY, Chicago, decades of California, and eliding diction. Would that I could pick up an italian accent and bolster my espanol.

Thomas is sort of a surprise. I've met him twice. Online he makes me sort of fear-shiver for his analytic abs (abilities); in real life he is a major teddy bear. But maybe he was just sleepy...

On listening, Thomas' English speaking is very... Californian. I had no problem ever. With Walter, once he gets going on a complex subject I have to zone in and stare at him. Which is probably pretty disconcerting.

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Re: Questions for people who've met at A2K meets...

Mame wrote:

1. Do you hear the person's voice when you read their posts?

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I think the ones I've known the longest before I met them in real life are also the ones whose voices I'm the least likely when I read their posts.

Mame wrote:

2. After having met them, do you distinctly remember who and how they "were" before you met them and discovered who they were?

No, not really.

Mame wrote:

3. Were your impressions of them correct?

My impressions of their looks were almost always wrong, unless I've seen them on pictures of earlier get-togethers. My impressions of their character and the way they talk was pretty accurate.

Mama wrote:

4. Do you get their posts better now, ie. the sarcasm, the laughter, etc?

Yes, absolutely.

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Great voices, off the cuff -

Diane has a lovely voice, lovely singing voice, and has been the only person to make me just stand back and take the word "sweetie". One thing I'm not is 'southern', and meeting both her and Lash has tempered my rote dismay at being called such into cornmeal.

Kara, aka Karateka, elegant voice with lilt. Lady with mind, personified. I've not met her in person.

ehBeth, well, she was just right away ehBeth, when she called us all in Chicago. We haven't met. She sounded just right. I don't remember some giant canadian thing.

Realjohnboy, story teller extraordinaire and his voice is perfect for the doing. Major gentleman. Languid voice.

Roger - a combo of straightforward and sardonic male. Good sound. This involves getting him to talk, as for good reason he attends to listening, but he is in real life like on here, thoughtful, with snappy piquance.

More later.

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georgeob1 wrote:

However, It has always hurt my pride to note that she won't take me as seriously as I believe I deserve. I have feelings, Calamity.

Hah! You're too sneaky for me to even give you an inch, mister! If it makes you feel better though, I do take you serious at times. Very Happy

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Eva, hearing her now, with a soft but not too soft lilt, a thoughtful lilt. Woman, perhaps goddess, who means business, with a heart. All that in some sentences, yes. Maybe there are oklahoma sisters with similar voices who are mean bitches, but I don't know them. I only know Eva.

Rockhead, good voice, always thoughtful, often quick, very quick wit.

Dys, what to say, no one like dys when he covers a subject he is expert in. I couldn't begin to place his accent (or as my ex would say, dialect; we used to argue about that, but I didn't take his courses) - does his early life affect his present english? I know it affects his mind, as he studied philosophy at something like five, and of course later. Loved voice, but some of us are biased.

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ossobuco wrote:

Great voices, off the cuff -

Diane has a lovely voice, lovely singing voice, and has been the only person to make me just stand back and take the word "sweetie". One thing I'm not is 'southern', and meeting both her and Lash has tempered my rote dismay at being called such into cornmeal.

Kara, aka Karateka, elegant voice with lilt. Lady with mind, personified. I've not met her in person.

ehBeth, well, she was just right away ehBeth, when she called us all in Chicago. We haven't met. She sounded just right. I don't remember some giant canadian thing.

Realjohnboy, story teller extraordinaire and his voice is perfect for the doing. Major gentleman. Languid voice.

Roger - a combo of straightforward and sardonic male. Good sound. This involves getting him to talk, as for good reason he attends to listening, but he is in real life like on here, thoughtful, with snappy piquance.

More later.

Yep.

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Mame does too have an accent.
Please god dont tell me she doesnt or I will have to have my ears checked
It is ever so slight, but its there..

Walter, when I met him , was a surprise as well. I have no clue he had such a heavy german accent... Like osso, I caught myself really having to read his lips to understand everything.

Thomas...well.. I think I am the only person on the planet who did not know that the image in his avatar was not him.. but some famous person. Embarrassed

Of course, I have said that before.

Boomerang.. That woman can not travel enough for me. I think she is ficking wonderful and just 'way cool'.

I have met Chai.. still do for lunch on occasion. Should happen more often. We are too close ( literally about 20 minutes away) and too much alike .

Mame can take up residence in my home and I would not blink an eye.
She keeps up with my off the wall sense of humor ....hands down.

Osso was another that really threw me for a loop. I think I made her uncomfortable staring at her trying to take all of her in for what she was instead of what I had pictured. In my head I had the idea of a librarian... boring.. stick in the mud.. quiet.. sort of fly on the wall kind of personality.
How I came to that conclusion? Clueless.. but I could not have been more off the mark.

When I read their posts though, I dont hear any other voices besides my own.
I add my own fluctuation , snippets and oddities . In my head I can make the dullest of posts into a knee slapper.

I think I spend too much time doing that.. hence the need for haldol

but thats another thread entirely.

The only person I 'met' but didnt really get to MEET was RealjohnBoy.

A few minutes we sat next to each other, but we never got a chance to chat too much. He tried calling me once from his hotel room, but the reception I was getting in N.M was crappy and I could not understand a word he said. And since I was out of area, the phone number was unavailable.

So... since I missed alot about everyone.. seems we need to do it all again ..

you know.. for my sanity.
Yeah thats it.. Very Happy

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Okay, pretend Mame isn't here and just tell me...

Does she have a deeper voice, almost raspy? Not like baritone deep, but the lower range of female and just a hint of rasp or toughness?

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Ohhh yeah...

Diane and sweetie..

Actually.. I cant hear anything she says beyond those eyes.

That woman has some of the most magnificent blue/green/light brown/white/gold/ .. combination I have ever seen .

I could just stare at her eyes for ages. They have personalities of their own:)

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squinney wrote:

Okay, pretend Mame isn't here and just tell me...

Does she have a deeper voice, almost raspy? Not like baritone deep, but the lower range of female and just a hint of rasp or toughness?

yeeeeeup

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Ok..ok.. let me go against the grain ....

i LIKE the DYS

there I said it out loud.
I feel soooooo free.
So. unburdened. So.. soul cleansing..

it was like a dirty little secret.

(aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

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huh, so this is what it's like to be talked about behind your back in front of your very eyes...

yes, my voice is gravelly - perhaps that's why it's hard to pick up the barely noticeable accent.

I know what you mean about osso, shewolf - i thought she'd be dithery, though, you know, how sometimes her threads sort of get a life of their own. She starts out in one corner and ends up all over the map Smile

Sometimes I have to reread them several times! lol But she's sharp and she's funny and she's a fab painter. No flies on that woman.

BBB, too, was not what I expected. What DID I expect? See how hard it is to remember what you'd thought prior to? Hmmm... well, I can't remember anymore. She, too, is sharp and funny and very alive. She's certainly politically aware and I secretly suspect she heads the local Pinko Commie branch (j/k!).

I feel the same about RJB - I never once got to chat with him. Too many other bossy people hogging his attention. He has a lovely cadence, though - I was listening to him.

I can hear Diane's voice in her posts really clearly. And you're right - her eyes are stunning and unique. She's probably sick of hearing about that though. Wonder if they're what Dys first fell in love with? She's a very gracious, generous woman and I don't think I've thanked her properly for both of them putting so much of their time and home at our disposal. It really felt like an extended pyjama party.

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Squinney, You've seen pictures of Mame, pretty, petite, down to earth but very feminine.

Boy was I surprised! I was thinking mining camp cook--a sort of Big Bertha tough woman no one would think of messing with. Well, they wouldn't think of messing with her, but Big Berta, she's not.

Yep, shewolf, we have to do it again. Someone mentioned making it an annual event. That would be great!

So far, everyone I've met in person hasn't surprised me in terms of their personality and the way they post on a2k. Some are more extraverted, some more quiet, but they all tend to be honest posters, which makes meeting them all the more special.

I wish JohnBoy and Roger (and osso and me) could fine a place with perfect acoustics as we are all hard of hearing and RJB has such a soft voice that I sometimes nodded as if I had heard--something I do out of fear of asking "what" too often.

All were exceptional--true characters in the best sense of the word.

Shewolf, don't you agree that Dys is Dys and has never tried to be anything else? That is one of the things I love most about him.

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