Is it just me or is the lovely Orla Johannes beginning to lose her accent? I was listening to her do the Montreal traffic report and plug Dagwood's Sandwiches a few minutes ago and her accent seemed to be fading in and out, sort of the same way that, if you listen to the BBC World Service on shortwave, you hear them talking at a normal cadence for a while and then some bass distortion will fade in for a few seconds, making the voices a little bit deeper and more metallic, and then fade out. (I'm not sure exactly why the bass distortion happens, but, if you listen for a few minutes, you can pick up on the fact that it's some sort of regular cycle; presumably, something to do with radio waves.) I think it will be a pity if Ms. Johannes lost it completely.
Also regarding her accent, according to Orla Johannes's voice-over talent listing page, it says she is British (and has a B.A. Honours degree in Marketing from Bournemouth University in Dorset); I honestly thought she was Australian, and so did my British mother (who was actually born in Malta, but she is English). My mother thinks that it might just be that Ms. Johannes's accent has been compromised because of living in Montreal for a while. Aww... when I heard her on the radio, I liked to pretend I was in Canberra, since, as Steventheeunuch knows, pretending you're in Canberra is ever so much fun. Note to Ms. Johannes should she see this... the last line is a private in-joke; don't worry about it.
posted by Steve Brandon @ 7:08 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home