I never had so I googled. At ~0:53... Matthew Yglesias on the Politics of Micromobility and Being Twitter’s Foremost "Ebike Dad" - YouTube. Yeesh. In movies and in tv series - people who say stuff like "Sweatshops are good actually" are reptilian and repulsive. In realty - they are Matty. The worst centrist pundits have such similar voices. There's a centrist way of speaking. I don't know what to call it so I'll call it a centrist brogue.

It's not a whine but it's getting there. In fact - if I was speaking to a centrist online and I used the word "brogue" - they'd lecture me that I don't know what I'm talking about. And if I really think that centrists have a vaguely similar way of talking - I should google to learn the correct linguistic term. I should not use an incorrect term. Of course - in my head I'd convert the text to speech and I'd hear their brogue.

Ezra Klein's producer filled (fills?) in for him on his podcast. A Hexbear made a joke that they sound exactly the same. I didn't quite believe it so I found the podcast and I had a quick listen. If had skipped the intro where the producer explains that he's filling in - I would have simply thought he was Klein himself. People tend to gravitate towards people who are similar so being roughly similar in appearance or voice is not unusual but that shit was beyond belief. It was so weird. They had the same voice.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno if we're talking about the same thing but I've felt this in my bones for years. I think of it as upper-management speak cuz it reminds me of every corporate suit at every meeting i used to have to attend

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

upper-management speak

I've never been in the corporate world but maybe that's it.