About changing the voice................it really depends for me. I mean......I don't change my voice (hate that), but I have a different *style* of talking with different people. Like I have a *home style* the way I talk with my parents, and then how I talk with my brother. Voice is same, style is different. I think this more has to do with language, you know, because I usually talk to my parents in Urdu, and my brother in English. My parents expect me to talk to them in Urdu so I don't *lose* it..............you know, when you know more than one language, you don't want to lose the ones you don't get to speak too often. Occasionally, I will talk to my parents in English too, but the style is different from how I'd talk in English to my brother, or friends. I talk to my friends and brother in a very American accent, which is my normal accent...............but somehow, with my parents..........it just sounds different. I have pretty much the same style of talking to anyone other than my parents. People who I'm more free with, I probably talk in a more free manner. People who I'm not so free with, its more *formal*..........you know? But I hate when people change their voices, to that squeeky *baby* voice. I don't like that. Keep your voice how it is........don't go around changing it.

One of my pet peeves related to this is how some people change their *accents* to something its not. I know this Eqyptian girl, who grew up in Egypt and moved to the US a few years ago. She has a TOTAL Eqyptian accent..........I mean TOTALLY, and she tries to change it to American, which she CANNOT do, so she ends up sounding like a total wierdo. I mean........if you're not an American and cannot talk like one, is that something to be ashamed of? Talk like yourself! I can't understand a word she says when she constantly tries to talk in an American accent, which isn't possible for her.