Friday, June 10, 2005
No Voice
I've had a cold and completely lost my voice over the past few days. It's the first time I can remember that I really can't talk at all and it's amazing what a lazy parent I've become. The TV has become a closer friend than usual. No more stories or school and only minimal discipline. No more straining my brain to answer one of the millions of "why" questions that Cyd invariably comes up with during the day, ---just a happy shrugging of the shoulders and I let her decide if it means I don't know or if I just don't know how to communicate it to her without speaking. I know I'm only giving myself a break and I'll be vocal again before I know it, but I can't help but wonder how do deaf and dumb mums do it? It's given me a new respect for the vocally impaired.
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You said "mum"!
Sorry about your voice...but it does sound relaxing. I should try it.
I know, I know, I'm really trying to "become one", especially since I'll be an aussie myself before long. (at least in name) I even try to practice with the accent sometimes, I repeat after some of the real local soapies, if you can imagine such a thing. But the one I so cannot get is the silent "r" sound. You know, the one that turns butter and car into "butta" and "caaa". When I do it I sound like a black mammy from one of the old Shirley Temple movies. I can do a reasonable British, probably from listening to Simon Peter so much as a kid, but that just sounds snotty. Cyd still hasn't lost her strong American accent either. I'm trying to slowly integrate some of the British pronunciations for words into my speech like tomato, banana and battery. So yeah, for now mum's the word.
What, no vitamins and schedules?
Anyway, I can't show this post to Mike. He would lord it over me all day!
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