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[โ€“] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I appreciate the idea behind this blog, but I think this post would have benefited from audio or video examples, because I don't find the text descriptions particularly helpful. Like, what does this even mean?

Loose voices tremble, gravel, and let words crash into each other. Tight voices keep thing neat and clipped, from chipper to brutish.

I don't know, I this phrasing seems quite evocative to me. Tremble means to waver in tone or power, gravel means to hoarse or growling in a low energy fashion, and words colliding means for words to flow into one another in a fluid and informal way. This all makes speech sound less confident, and less educated. Meanwhile, neat speech is formal, and clipped speech has clear start and end points to words, and so clear distinctions between neighbouring words.

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