Hi,
I’ve recently come across the title of the book “The Girl with Louding Voice”. The book’s abstract says that “the louding voice means the ability of the main character to speak for herself and decide her own future”. I got interested in the adjective “louding” as I couldn’t find it at the dictionary. Could it be used with other nouns or it’s a set expression invented by the author of the book?
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Yes, the term ‘a louding voice’ was coined by Abi Daré according to this quote from The Guardian:
What is a louding voice? It appears to be a coinage of Daré’s for a young woman who confidently shares her perspective on the world, backed up by a sound western education. Daré [has said] of the language in which the book is written: “Nigerians speak something called pidgin English, and I knew I didn’t want to write in pidgin English because even the very educated people speak pidgin English. I wanted it to be nonstandard English. I could make it Adunni’s. It could be her own English, so to speak.”
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Thank you, Torsten. It explains everything.
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