What do you call the hippy dippy art teacher new age chick drawl?

[Miller]

@elmwood

Here’s a real-like male version of the inflection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ

“You can call me a spiritual healer, a shaman, or a medicine man.”

Is “douchebag” an option?

[not_alice]

@elmwood

BA in Art, Master of Clinical Counseling.

There ya go!

I’d attribute the accent more to partying in art school than counsel-speak.

Although it probably is a career choice many art students and other semi-professional partiers end up making, so the confusion is excusable.

[lissener]

@Student_Driver

This is a bit off from some of the descriptions, but the art teacher from “Ghost World” might be a close match for an example…

Here’s part #4 of the movie (which seems to have been uploaded in its entirety), which starts off midway through the teacher’s “art film” being shown to a group of students. You get a good feel for her personality in the first minute and a half of the clip.

Yeah, that’s pretty close. Funny thing is, I was a performance art major in college, but my teacher was a middle-aged punk lesbian who specialized in guerilla confrontational art, and NEVER explained herself. Very cool broad, and about 180 degrees different from the performance art douchebag of the Ghost World clip.

[elmwood]

@not_alice

There ya go!

I’d attribute the accent more to partying in art school than counsel-speak.

It’s definitely not her full-time voice, though; just when someone is traumatized. She even labeled it as “insincere” when it’s used as a default.

Okay … I think I found a female example. Difficult to find, since it’s hard to know what to search for.

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[Johanna]

The examples of New Age gurus talking to a video camera don’t carry the full range of inflections you’d hear in a two-way interactive live conversation. Know what I mean? Oh, I so know what you mean by that!!!