Articulating with the stars

"Hi there, I'm Lorelai Williams! I'm from Hollywood, where I work as an accent and dialect coach. That basically means I teach actors and actresses how to speak for their roles! I'm also currently going to school at Hope's Peak Academy, where I have the title Super High School Level Dialect Coach!" ((Dangan Ronpa OC RP Blog, previously affiliated with RMS-Monoland, currently independent.))

[bigdirkenergy]

@aprincessescharms

[bigdirkenergy]

Making a six ex-wives of Henry VIII joke with Ward and his exes.

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[leaguesofdespair]

@shsldialectcoachlorelai

[leaguesofdespair]

Art Credit

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[shsldialectcoachlorelai]

Reference for Lorelai’s phone case:

[aprincessescharms]

OC Aesthetics

So, recently my girlfriend mentioned that she associates specific aesthetics with my OCs, and wrote out a little aesthetic blurb for each of my somewhat developed ocs. Not all of them have been added to this blog yet because they’re still sorta WIPs, but anyway, here are my OCs aesthetics

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[shsldialectcoachlorelai]

Lorelai is sunshine and puppies. Angel food cake. Lemonade. Girly pillow fights and movies with happy endings. Braiding each other’s hair while having a long, heart-to-heart conversation. Fuzzy pink pillowcases. Those little cake decorations that are made of pure sugar. A teddy bear that’s bigger than you are. A sheer canopy over your bed. Colorfully painted nails. Kissing in the rain.

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[classicfern]

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

[madsciences]

@ishyreblogs

[lavidapoliglota]

“don’t you get your languages mixed up?”

yeah all the time in fact in my latest Japanese essay I got 0% because I wrote the entire thing in Spanish and my parents are getting increasingly frustrated because I keep talking to them in German rather than British Sign Language

[megamilotic]

my friend is fluent in english, french, italian, portugese, german, dutch, russian and is learning spanish and latvian, and the other day he went into starbucks in england, ordered a latte in german, corrected himself in dutch and the poor barista looked at him in terror

[theblackheiress]

I wrote the entire WRITTEN EXPRESSION part of my Spanish test in French, read over the whole exam like 3 times and didn’t notice

my friend has like 7 or 8 siblings and they’re all fluent in about 6 or 7 languages, and they’ll all be spitting out sentences and remarks and requests in different languages and their parents get so confused. One of them handed in an AP test that started in german and ended in italian

[echo-five-whiskey]

Goals

[loremerchant]

Wish I could fuck up this gloriously.

[sorryfreudianslip-deactivated20]

In biology during jeopardy I started writing down the answers in Russian and calling them out in French that was Hell

[kookiegguk]

[shsldialectcoachlorelai]

spanish and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun.

french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever

german: LET'S ADD A NEUTRAL NOUN HAHA

english: *shooting up in the bathroom*

gaelic: the pronounciation changes depending on the gender and what letter the word starts and ends with and hahah i dont even know good fucking luck

polish: here have all of these consonants have fun

japanese: subject article noun article verb. too bad there's three fucking alphabets lmao hope your first language isn't western

welsh: sneeze, and chances are you've got it right. idfk

chinese: here's a picture. draw it. it means something. it can be pronounced four different ways. these twenty other pictures are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. godspeed.

arabic: so here's this one word. it actually translates to three words. also pronouns don't really exist. the gender is all in the verb. have fun!

latin: here memorize 500 charts and then you still dont know what the fuck is happening

sign language: If you move this sign by a tenth of an inch, you'll be signing "penis"

russian: idk man its pronounced like its spelt but good fucking luck spelling it

Greek: so basically we're going to add 15 syllables to every word you know and assign it one of 3 genders at random. Also good luck figuring out where to put the accents you piece of shit

[cradily]

irish is such a shady language because hello is “dia duit” but directly translated it means “god be with you” and when someone says hello back they say “dia is muire duit” which means “god and mary be with you” .. its like “i see your god and i raise you the holy virgin whatcha gonna do bout it bitch”

[itsalways-sunny]

irish isnt a language…

[cradily]

Ith mo thóin

[gabite]

[shsldialectcoachlorelai]

Lorelai’s Pokemon Team

[andrewswyatt-deactivated2016111]

[coolthingoftheday]

The easiest and hardest languages for a native English-speaker to learn.

[chii-sweets]

Pink Cute Dress - $17.79

[aliensfuckmeup]

European accents (and in general white people accents) are commonly perceived as attractive and endearing, while accents from basically any other part of the world are considered to be signs of laziness and disrespect and get routinely made fun of.

[wholetjackdrive]

My whole family is Korean. My sister and I have grown up in the US so we can pretty much speak English. However, our parents speak very broken English. It makes me mad though because my mother has taken ESL classes at our local university and my father graduated from the University of Washington with a PhD in mechanical engineering, yet I constantly see them being made fun of by their coworkers or other people in general because “they’re too lazy to try to understand English.” My mom has spent countless nights crying whilst taking her classes because of the stress wishing she could speak half as fluently as I can. If you don’t know what it’s like trying to learn English as a second language, then you have no room to talk.

[rainbow-ginger-butterfly]

NEVER MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH. IT MEANS THEY SPEAK ONE MORE LANGUAGE THAN YOU DO. 

[opalowy]

Reblogging for that last comment. 👌

[heal-teavibes]

Preach 👍

[oztheblackrabbit-deactivated201]

questions about your character.

[shsldialectcoachlorelai]

♥ - What does ‘love’ mean to them? ♠ - What are they afraid of? ♦ - What is one thing about them that they are most proud of? ♣ - What is one thing that they find embarrassing? (About them, others, things in general) ★ - Do they prefer daytime or nighttime and why? ☾- Are they prone to nightmares or dreamless sleep? ☼ - Something that/Someone who makes them happy. ☁ - If they’re caught out in the rain how do they react? ♪ - Are they musically inclined? ♫ - What kind of music do they enjoy? ✓ - How do they react to praise? ✕ - How do they handle rejection? ☺ - Do they prefer sour or sweet treats? ❄ -  Favorite season and why? ☮ - Do they have an idol or someone they look up to? ❤ - Do they have a love interest? ✖ - Who is someone they just cannot stand? ♔ - Do they value loyalty? ♕ - Do they trust easily?