My Mum has a German girl staying with her. (I'm not sure why, I tried to ask the German girl herself but she just started talking about the German A-Level system.)
Anyway, this has made me notice that I put on stupid voices constantly. Not just when I'm doing impressions of somebody, although this is often the case, but just to jazz up my sentences a bit. For example I might say 'Bob can you move up a bit' in an Australian accent for no particular reason, or 'Mum can you pass the salt' in a really deep voice. Whenever I do things like this, the German girl peers at me. She just gives me a good old peer, as if to say 'Why are you talking in that weird voice?'. This makes me feel awkward, so I start putting on my 'awkward' voice, which I normally like to save for one of those situations where a conversation between two of your friends is threatening to escalate into an argument. The 'awkward' voice is very nasal. I think it's meant to be funny but I can't be sure.
Also in my repertoire is the 'best friend' voice, which I like to save for my oldest friend. That's a pretty weird voice, it's very high and makes you sound really thick. But the German girl will probably never hear that voice. She ain't my buddy.
(See? I even do it when I'm typing. That was meant to sound like Samuel L. Jackson.)
(Also I would like to clarify that the German girl is quite nice. I just don't really understand her and she definitely doesn't understand me, so there isn't much of a foundation for a firm friendship there.)
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