Just struck me, because in English we don't really change register all that much, compared to some of the Asian languages/cultures, where it seems that "female voices" are expected/pressured to be considerably higher-pitch, sometimes unnaturally so, than male voices. So I immediately thought of that as a kind of code, from masculine-pitch to feminine-pitch.
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Date: 5 Feb 2011 01:47 am (UTC)Register = formality.
Just struck me, because in English we don't really change register all that much, compared to some of the Asian languages/cultures, where it seems that "female voices" are expected/pressured to be considerably higher-pitch, sometimes unnaturally so, than male voices. So I immediately thought of that as a kind of code, from masculine-pitch to feminine-pitch.