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What happens when you put a microphone on a pole in the Mission of San Francisco, what does it pick up? Jessamyn made a post about just such a thing, the bop spotter, which isn’t about surveillance per se, but what’s poppin’ off in real-time on the street, check it out!
The Brox Sisters tune their radio
I'm working on a performance bit that uses 1920s diction, but there's something I'm missing. What are the elements of the popular radio voice that make it distinctive?
Some interesting answers to monkihed's interesting question, Linguists: what makes the 1920s voice so distinctive?
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