if you are reading a book set in a certain part of the country (ireland/wales/scotlan for EG), do you find yourself reading it in you head in that accent??

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cos I am right now, and it is quite offputting (for me), as I feel as tho I am unconsiously taking the piss out of the characters.

I do this when I meet people with strong accents.........I mimic them (not on purpose), and I wonder if they thing I am taking the piss, so of course, I feel as bad even while reading, and I am the only one who knows that I am reading it like that.

tell me I am not alone in this, PLEASE....I feel odd enough sometimes

I have just been reading about slaves in deep south, mixed with watching True Blood I have dodgy accents just running round my head.

thats what I mean about what I am hearing.......they sound dodgy in my head too (am ill, so the wording wasn;t coming right in my head)

oh, thinking about it, might not be ok for tomorrow......got a tummy bug, have had to cancel hospital already!

Had bowen last night and hips are killing me, plus it seems to have restarted period pains. I was having doubts about 2 hours in car!

for the aching. has it helped your neck tho??

dd got a princess poppy book out off the library and teh only way i can bear to read it to her is to read teh princess voices in a johnny vegas accent which amuses us both.

Not non-fiction but I am reading Parky's book at the moment and in my head I can here his voice as I am reading it.

Lol @ Johnny Vegas accent!

I think it will help, but today my hips are killing me, and my neck is just stiff.

I used to do this when i was working in a call center. If anyone came one with a really strong accent i started to copy them.
Half the time did not realise i was doing it until my colleague asked me why i was talking like an Australian!

I tried reading Derren Browns book once and became very traumatised at not being able to read a word of it without hearing his own voice. Freaked me out.

tis odd isn;t it ripeberry.....my DH points it out to me when I am doing that.....

@ johnny vegas.

mrsgokwan.....I do that too with biographies..actually I do it also with interviews in papers with certain slebs.

It's fine I do it some times.

I also talk and laugh to myself.

I wonder if it's because we are naturally more empathic with other people, someone must have studied this?

I only seem to do it with american books. I find myself thinking the accents and then get really frustrated when I can't get a word right. Like it really matters!! I also talk to myself a lot. I mutter away in the kitchen while clearing up and DH often asks who I'm talking too.

craggy, I talk and laugh too. tis ok until you are on a train/bus alone and there is silence around you. I am surprised a have not been burnt to a cinder lots of times by now going on the looks I can get!

No, but if it's set in an area of Scotland I know, then I do picture it, IFYSWIM!
Never read in accents , well except my own, which someone (a customer) told me was called "Jockinese"

when reading trainspotting and after you'd gone i really knew both areas and could visualise the areas

Or Rebus! I can visualise most of Edinburgh, and the pubs they mention!

well of course how could i forget!rebus.know all the haunts well my friend lived in arden st next to margiotto's