Post #4081899
2026-07-16 22:44 UTC
@oldladyplays@wargamers.social That's a great question that I've been asking myself.
Since I live in the US I speak English all the time but with my dreadful French accent people tend to attribute any female variation to me being French.
I can't pinpoint speech difference in France but body language is important: French women use their hands a lot, they move when they talk while men are static.
And it's associated with gay men too so people clock me as gay, not trans.
And believe me French women do swear.😆
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@oldladyplays@wargamers.social 2026-07-17 00:28
@aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social Thank you! So far, my masc-French voice tends to be more Quebecois, more soldier-like, brusque and so on. While my femme-French voice tends to be more standard French, to the extent that such exists. I don't use the same Canadian vowels and diphthongs as I do in my masc-French, for instance, where "oui" gets out somewhere closer to "oué". It's very interesting stuff. Thanks!