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Ambivalent Voices: Synecdochic
The latest edition of Ambivalent Voices is now available for your downloading pleasure (or you can get it via RSS here). This edition explains why “synecdoche” or some variation of it would make a great blog/blawg name. After recording it, I decided my favorite variation would be “synecdochic,” because it could be pronounced so many different ways, depending on where you put the emphasis, and it just looks and sounds cool. The podcasting experiment continues to slowly evolve, this time with the introduction of simple “bumpers” —little bits of music to lead into and out of the podcast. The bumpers come by means of GarageBand, which also helped reduce a little of the background noise in the recording and helped cut the file size in half for faster downloading. (Side note: This was my first time playing w/GarageBand and I can already see I probably shouldn't have started b/c I might never want to stop. It's very cool, esp. for something that comes free w/new macs.) If you would like to say anything at all on Ambivalent Voices (ok, anything w/in reason that can be said in five minutes or less), let me know and we'll set it up. Your soapbox or comedic stage is waiting!Posted February 22, 2005 06:46 AM | voices
Can I say that it was great to hear your voice? Though I have to admit that you sounded like you were using your classroom voice. I much prefer the mom and sister stuff if only cause I get to hear yer laugh, which I miss. The jokes/story weren't bad either. Jen, Exene and I might be out yer way sometime in August. Jen might be attending a rare books class in Baltimore which, while not next door to D.C., is certainly closer than St. Louis. We'll let you know more as the situation develops.
Posted by: Famous P. at February 22, 2005 12:13 PM
Glad you liked it; I'll try to use my non-classroom voice in the future, but it is a wierd thing to be speaking to no one yet possibly speaking to everyone. The whole thing is a little wierd, honestly, but it's also fun for some reason. Is it possible that *anything* is more fun than reading for class? Um, yeah. But I better do it anyhoo. Let us know if you're headed this way and we'll meet in Baltimore or wherever, preferably someplace w/that really good beer we used to drink from the tall glasses at the Esquire.
Posted by: ambimb at February 23, 2005 07:02 AM
Oops, 2nd try. I closed the box without posting!
Anyway, I love the word synechdoche. And its closely related word metonymy.
This is a good hook. It's like the "learn a word a day" calendar! Except I learned this one in high school.
Posted by: E. McPan at February 26, 2005 12:19 PM
