[HN Gopher] The day my voice broke
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       The day my voice broke
        
       Author : one-possibility
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-01-25 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | michaelbuckbee wrote:
       | People who liked this article might find Scott Adams vocal issues
       | interesting (for a long time he couldn't speak in a normal tone
       | in conversations but in other contexts like singing or public
       | speaking he could).
       | 
       | https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/16360/scott-adams-and-sp...
        
       | avalys wrote:
       | _Consequently, he said, I had done what many people with my
       | injury do: I had developed strategies for, as he put it,
       | "speaking around the problem" - retraining my recurrent laryngeal
       | nerve (the nerve that, among other things, controls the tension
       | on the vocal cords) to drop the pitch of my voice, slackening my
       | freighted vocal membrane so that the 3 or 4% that was still
       | pliable would vibrate. This reduced the rattle in my voice, but
       | at a cost. It was robbing me of the natural variation in pitch
       | and volume that people use to give colour, animation, expression
       | and personality to their utterances - what linguists call
       | prosody, the melody of everyday speech.
       | 
       | ...
       | 
       | "You're behaving through a veil of monotone," he went on. "When
       | you talk, you can't express emotion properly. You can't change
       | pitch, can't get loud, can't do the normal things that a voice
       | does to express how you feel."_
       | 
       | The first example that jumped to mind when I read this section
       | was Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad / Better
       | Call Saul).
       | 
       | Anyone know how accurate my armchair diagnosis is?
        
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