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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? by protomyth on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @05:12PM (#9423580)
"I pass very well for an upper middle-class man thanks to a spiffing british accent I inherited from my mother"

Its amazing how a "upper crust" accent will play versus something something considered "low class". Its one of those hidden assumptions that adults make. I have a deep, loud voice that was tinged with a rez accent and quite a lot of slang.

Watch a kid react to Mater from Cars versus an adult. The story of the voice acting for that part worldwide is quite interesting.

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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? by jheriko on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @05:28PM (#9423702)
thanks for that little gem about Mater's voice.

looking at efforts spent on voices around the world in high quality productions is always interesting (in high quality dubs, even ambient background conversation is re-recorded, for example), and a strong reminder of how US-centric a lot of media is. people still build 'new' software with ansi strings after all... :)

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