The Power of Voice

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Post by franco b » Wed. Apr. 10, 2019 1:08 pm

Umberto Eco passed away last year. It was from the dust jacket of one of his books that I learned a new word. It seems he was a professor of "semiotics" at the University of Bologna.

Looking it up it means, signs and symbols. Something I was totally ignorant of and which was almost ever present. The tools of advertising and propaganda, and even our instinctive responses.

The power of voice is a tool also. Adam Schiff is very good as is joe Biden and Lindsay Graham. Obama is superb.

To illustrate, here is a young lady scamming a scammer. She is a voice expert who here adopts the computer voice of Alexa. She is also very smart.


 
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Post by lsayre » Wed. Apr. 10, 2019 5:17 pm

Now that was funny. He gets $288 for each bank account he empties. Not bad for an 18 year old kid in Afghanistan. If I understood him correctly, all he needs by which to empty your bank account is a "Google Play Card number", whatever that is.


 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Thu. Apr. 11, 2019 12:34 am

ROTFLMAO...
Love it 40 plus minutes...

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