Timeline for Negative word for someone whose voice pitch varies too much? (opposite of monotone)
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| Jan 15, 2016 at 14:22 | vote | accept | j.i.h. | ||
| Jul 8, 2015 at 5:36 | answer | added | Dan Gao | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 0:52 | answer | added | Abraham | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 21:02 | comment | added | Mike Wise | I have never heard American accents described as anything but very flat, although some of them (some Mississippi dialects comes to mind) are not really. But compared to most British accents - they are flat. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 20:19 | comment | added | hatchet - done with SOverflow | You could call the person a yodeler (a skill when applied to an actual singing yodeler, a bit sarcastic when describing someone's talking voice). | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 20:18 | comment | added | Cephalopod | If you want to stress the "too much" part, I would use a simple word to describe the voice. Maybe "overly dramatic"? | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 19:45 | answer | added | jsoteeln | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 19:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/618500869760372736 | ||
| Jul 7, 2015 at 18:43 | answer | added | public wireless | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 17:00 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:55 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @sunk818 No: most American accents are dead flat. Listen to Hugh Laurie gripe about how he has to strip away all the natural pitch variation (not that he’s all that sing-song, but still) in his native accent to put on an American one. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:54 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | jxh | Undulate is the verb for this, but no particular negative connotation, except excessive waves tend to make people nauseous. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:22 | comment | added | Sun | Abroad, I hear the word "American" used to refer to this type of voice pitch. North American tend to speak in high and low tones, but not mid-tone. I see this often when people speak to babies or pets. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:09 | history | asked | j.i.h. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |