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...but never had the opportunity to? Could be to everyone, nobody, or a specific person.

I don't know about a specific question, but my best friend's mother...she lost one of her sisters to suicide. I've always wanted to ask more about it, but always figured it wasn't much my business.

Same, but it was my friend's mother who committed suicide. I feel so bad for even wondering what drove her to it, so I'd never ask.

Are kangaroos like the Australian version of deer in the US? Like how deer are not everywhere, you won't see them roaming downtown but they are common enough that most people has seen one like roaming a suburb park or someone's boonie backyard. Are kangaroos like that?

Yes.

That's cool.

I asked an australian friend.
"hmmmm sort of? you get them a shit ton in the countryside but in the suburbs they're fairly rare
obviously the closer to 'countryside' a suburb is the more likely it is that you'll spot one"

Definitely not in the suburbs or major population centres.

You'll probably see them in the country, though. They can be pretty dangerous, because if you're driving at night and you hit one of them, they can total your car.

They can be pretty dangerous, because if you're driving at night and you hit one of them, they can total your car.

So, exactly like deer, then.

Re: What's a question you always wanted to ask...

(Anonymous) - 2014-07-16 02:42 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, not so much in the suburbs of the cities. I live twenty minutes away from the city centre and we would not get kangaroos here. Outer suburbs are more likely.

Before I moved to Brisbane, Mum had a friend she knew through a church group who lived a little way out of town, on a farm. His district (a village named Old Bonalbo) was where an Oscar winning documentary about kangaroos called Faces In The Mob was filmed. It's more milk farms, and a lot of the farmers let the roos graze alongside the cows without bothering them. The cattle and the roos politely avoid each other just fine.

Suburbia? No, you usually don't see kangaroos there, though I suspect you might see some of the smaller types in the national parks in Sydney, like Lane Cove Park, which runs right through the North Shore suburbs.

I live in a pretty suburban part of my city and I've not seen kangaroos wandering around *at all*. They're huge, and even wallabies aren't that common. If you live near the bush they'd be around, but unless you live way out in the country they're not common. You can see wallabies at zoos and wildlife parks, but they don't (IME) roam about in most (esp inner-city) suburbs. We get magpies, mynahs, lorikeets, ducks crossing the road, spiders and the odd snake, but no koalas or kangaroos/wallabies.

To non-Americans, do you find Americans speak at a deeper pitch than the rest of the world? (Maybe with the exception of Russians.) I ask because when ever I hear a non-American actor trying to do a convincing American accent, they always pitch their voice deeper. Like Hugh Laurie's natural speaking voice is higher than his House voice. Same thing with Christian Bale. His American accents are always done at a deeper pitch. And when American actors do English roles, they always pitch their voice up.

And this goes for both genders. American women speak at a far deeper register than woman from countries like Japan, Korea and China where higher pitch voices are seen as more feminine. (You want to be seen as an aggressive woman in Japan? Do a deep accent.)

What do you think?

I've never noticed any change in tone between Americans and Europeans or Asians. But men can lower their voices to be more masculine/badass, which would fit with Batman, and I guess House is his own kind of badass. Maybe the Americans doing English roles need to sound more sophisticated and thus speak more gently? (In the words of Robin Williams, "You're in England, the land of good manners." Yes, I know it's not true, but it's a stereotype in the US. A black male friend of mine deliberately speaks in a British accent in public, and it relaxes everyone around him. He swears it always works.)

The Asian woman high-pitched voice is a deliberate attempt to sound cute and girly, as it's my understanding that is what's desirable. In the US, for women it seems mature confidence, happiness, and no fear are what ears attention. Usual disclaimers of YMMV and everyone's different and this is my opinion and such and some Western men like baby-doll voices etc etc.

Even though I come from scotland, my basic accent is some sort of american.
I tried speaking in the nearest I could get to the accent I SHOULD have (highland) and then repeated it in my normal accent. It DID sound deeper. (And I could hear the american more than usual, yuck...)

I have always associated deeper tones in old people with american accents. Like... there are tones that just say "American grandparent" to me.

American, but one time I had a voice teacher tell me to stop speaking so low since it was at odds with my natural range.

I never really noticed that, no. Maybe people just get weird pitches when doing a foreign accent?

I definitely notice this in contrast to Japanese/Korean and English.

Personally, my Japanese is usually higher pitched than my English. But my English tends to bounce around in pitch and tone depending on my mood, I can control it but when I'm not thinking it goes all over.

It seems about the same as the UK to me, everyone has varied tone and pitch in their voices.

Huh. I kind of thought Hugh Laurie's regular speaking voice was deeper than his American accent and figured the difference was probably him being extra careful and more conscious about his speech. Kate Winslet playing an American in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind had a noticeably higher (and more nasal) tone than her ordinary speaking voice, too.

I feel the same way about Hugh Laurie (and Damian Lewis).

Why wasn't I born in a different time?

Because your parents weren't born and having sex in a different time.

If this is a more rhetorical question, I have a question for you: why would you want to be born in a different time? There's no historical golden age worth speaking about.

I'm not looking to a historical golden age (although technically the reign of Elizabeth I qualifies as one). I just despise my origins, my upbringing, and the constant feeling that I'm fifteen years behind everybody else. Yes, I know it could be way worse. Yes, I should be grateful that I'm "at least" playing catchup now. I know I'm not supposed to have all the answers by now, but some days it feels like I have none.

Re: What's a question you always wanted to ask...

(Anonymous) - 2014-07-15 03:55 (UTC) - Expand

Sometimes I want to outright ask my parents why they separated. I was really young when it happened and my older brother and I aren't very close. I've heard things from various relatives while they've been inebriated. But those same relatives can't always been relied on for accuracy. From what I've pieced together it was my father who left my mother for another woman. A part of me wants to know if that's true and if he cheated on her, but the other part of me doesn't because if it is my view of him would be changed for the worse.

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