Loud, shrill and unvaried
Via googlechat:
Sent at 11:59 AM on TuesdayMe: Am reading a voice coaching book from the 60s: “carry a diary with you, and make memoranda of any high, tense, belligerent or nagging voices you may hear.”
Martin: what on earth for?
Me: It’s to correct “stridency” in your speech: voices which are “loud, shrill and unvaried”
Martin: what’s wrong with a screechy voice?
Me: I think it’s the idea that having an uncontrollably screechy voice might interfere with getting cast, rather than screechy = bad
Martin:
but Iaeem goeeeng for mr scrEEeEch eeieen the nEEeeew ScreeEEchEEEe film! Me:
I weeeeiiish you the beeeiist of luiiiiccck. Martin:
thaieenk yeee kiiiieend siiir! Me:
sqrueeee! Sent at 12:07 PM on Tuesday