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Do you ever find some dictator voices so annoying - that its actually fascinating to listen to? sm

Posted: Jan 11, 2015

The ones who stutter, or lisp (both of which I despise), or sound like they're whispering through locked lips.

Some days it's so strange it fascinates me more than annoys me.

Yep - me

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I have one dictator who sounds like she should be about 110 or something, sounds like it's such a major effort to say words at all, hard to listen to. I googled her & found out she's only 40 years old. No clue why somebody that young would have such an incredibly old-sounding voice.

I enjoy listening to different accents - MT

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I have always had a pretty easy time with foreign doctors. I live in the Northeast US, and it was really difficult for me to get used to Southern US accents. I enjoy listening to them, but they have been the most difficult for me so far. My husband is from California, and I'm originally from NY (near Canada), and we always have to laugh about the words we pronounce differently. Just recently we realized we say the word "sorry" differently. He says "sarry," and I say it more like "sore-y." He says beg like baig, and I say it more like b-eg. There are several other differences we have noticed. I think different accents are interesting. :)

Accents - sm

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I'm from the South originally (but have lived all over the US), and returned 15 years ago. I left MT a few months ago and started working at the local hospital. I swear, for the LIFE of me, I cannot understand most of these people! Most are pretty well educated, but I can look them right in the face and concentrate, and I have no idea what they're saying. It's as if they never learned to articulate. They seem to understand each other just fine, so it's a little embarrassing!

OMG yes!! There's this one lady doctor... sm - ANMT

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...who sounds like she is constipated and straining with every word!! LOL!!

Most interesting doctor I ever had - Toni

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The most interesting was this neuropsychiatrist who had Tourette's. It was actually pretty hilarious because he would come up with the strangest verbal tics at the strangest times - including after describing one of his patients as being extremely depressed, he started laughing uproariously. But it was just one of the many sound effects I was treated to.

Can't quit laughing - over your post

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This will wake me up in the middle of the night laughing...

Oh my gosh - Still laughing 15 minutes later

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How cathartic! A real belly laugh, too. Gosh, I really needed that. :)

I have one surgeon who, after each sentence - will state

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PEEERIOD! Not just "period" but "PEEERIOD!" Other than that quirk he is pretty good.

When I started working at a hospital 12 years ago - Mt

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My boss warned me about one foreign physician who states "paragraph" after each sentence. She said when she was new to them, many thought it sounded like "pig graft." :) lol

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