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| Posted by: biliruben
- [52014814] Thu, May 31, 2007, 18:30
If you listen to a lot of NPR (and do I listen to a lot of NPR) you eventually get curious what these voices look like.
So I looked them up. Pictures of everyone you can think of.
With the exception of Nina Tottenberg, they generally look much, MUCH different then I expected.
Anyway, without further ado, here's Lakshmi Singh:
Puerto Rican and Trinidadian. I would not have guessed. I assumed she was of S Asian heritage.
The reason I looked her up is because, for years, when ever she says, "I'm Lakshmi Singh" I involuntarily respond, " No, I'm Lakshmi Singh!" I have no idea why though I think I did onece, and I can't seem to stop myself. Perhaps I need to get more sleep.
Anyway, who's your favorite voice, and do they look like what you expected? |
| | | 1 | biliruben
ID: 52014814
Thu, May 31, 2007, 18:32
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Oh, here's when of our local producers, who's picture is pretty much what I expected:
Wow.
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| | | 2 | Mötley Crüe
Dude
ID: 439372011
Thu, May 31, 2007, 22:32
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I couldn't believe it when I first got a look at my good friend, TB.
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| | | 3 | Doug
ID: 113132214
Fri, Jun 01, 2007, 01:42
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I like Warren Olney's programs quite a bit (helps that I'm an LA Native, of course), but I always pictured him as short, fat, wrinkled, and unkempt... kinda like a slightly younger, dirtier version of Wilford Brimley (probably w/o the moustache). His photo shows him to actually be in much better shape than I'd imagined. Cool guy.
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| | | 4 | Wilmer Mclean
ID: 254283115
Fri, Jun 01, 2007, 03:59
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The voice of NPR News underwriters is pretty much as I suspected and expected:
Frank Tavares
His nasally voice meandering from bass rumbles to tenor and above is almost like nails across a chalkboard to me.
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Admits to listening to a lot of NPR.
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I strain my blood pressure at the title of "All Things Considered."
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Nina Tottenberg. she loved Jesse Helms and General Boykin. ;)
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| | | 5 | biliruben
ID: 4911361723
Fri, Jun 01, 2007, 08:34
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Hah, Wilmer. Sounds like you perhaps have considered a few things they haven't. ;)
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| | | 6 | Niranjan
ID: 247581512
Fri, Aug 15, 2008, 13:58
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My thoughts exactly. Who is the Lakshmi Singh?? The first name sounds south indian. Then the last name is a curve ball. Her news delivery is confident without a trace of an accent. The content even if it touches on 60s iconic events is conveyed with a touch of familiarity. Puerto Rican and Trinidadian....Pretty cool!
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| | | 7 | Razor
ID: 545172413
Fri, Aug 15, 2008, 16:15
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Lakshmi is an Indian name. So is Singh. The surname Singh is famous of course for Vijay, who is Fijian. However, like Spanish names in the Phillipines, those surnames are originally from another country.
I like ME-chele Norris. What does she say her name like that?
Melissa Block is the most NPR-looking person I could find.
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| | | 8 | Arun
ID: 40231210
Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 12:03
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I can't fall asleep without correcting the way she pronounces her OWN name!
Arun
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| | | 9 | Building 7
ID: 471052128
Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 13:35
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I've listened to NPR for about 30 minutes......in my lifetime. Although I have to pay for it anyways.
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| | | 10 | Rob
ID: 124242812
Thu, May 28, 2009, 13:25
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there are lots of indians from bihar, orissa, uttar pradesh and
other states india that either moved voluntarily or involuntarily to
british controlled trinidad as indentured farm labor to work in the
sugar cane plantations. Most of these trinidadian-indians mixed
with the other native and non-native populations of these
carribbean islands - africans, native american, whites, mestizos,
etc. VS Naipaul is a prominent trinidad-indian who writes about
the trinidad experience brilliantly.
This is similar to chinese railroad workers brought in as
indentured laborers, also indians in fiji have the same history.
Cheers
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| | | 11 | biliruben
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Thu, May 28, 2009, 17:59
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Thanks for the background, Rob.
Figured it must be something like that, but didn't know the history of Trinidad.
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| | | 12 | Manav
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Thu, Aug 13, 2009, 11:29
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Arun, I wouldn't lose sleep over how Lakshmi Singh pronounces her own name. Just curious - what Indian accent would you correct it to? Tamilian, Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi... ? Growing up a world away from India with neither parent being first-gen immigrants or having ties to at least periodically replenish pronunciations, words take on a completely different accent based on local influences. Its pretty much left to the speaker to define how to say something to their liking.
Why else would there be an American accent or for that matter the half dozen or so distinct regional accents within the U.S.
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| | | 13 | Alberto
ID: 0811170
Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 01:11
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TO biliruben:
I had to share this after reading your posting...
Since I heard the NPR newscaster pronounce her name "Lakshmi Singh" I started to do silly Karate moves. I dont know why the sound of the name evokes that : )
maybe I should get more sleep myself ??:)
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| | | 14 | biliruben
ID: 16105237
Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 06:48
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Heh. Indeed (as I stare bleary at the computer at 3:48 AM).
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| | | 15 | Razor
ID: 57854118
Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 10:18
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The fact that she is not Indian explains why she pronounces her name in that manner. Indians pronounce it LUCK-shmy.
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| | | 18 | Boldwin
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Fri, May 10, 2013, 05:19
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OK, now I'm dying to know what rcmcdonough had to say.
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