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...examples you give of this new era is a language based on chipmunk sounds. [Laughs.] Oh yes, Dritok. That inventor thought it would be interesting to build a language based on the sounds that chipmunks make because they use voiceless sounds - clicks and hisses and pops. He wondered if you could create a whole language without vibrating your vocal cords. It sounds very strange. I've never heard a natural language that sounds like it, but it still seems like a system. For him, that was an artistic challenge. (See Star Trek's most notorious villains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arika Okrent: Speaking Klingon | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...speaking population who have been left out of this process. Harvard did appoint an Allston-Brighton “task force,” but it filled it with better-off homeowners. Moreover, because meetings are almost exclusively in English, Allston’s poorest residents are left literally voiceless...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...knew that monsters actually existed, put a top-secret plan into effect. General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) herded the lot of misfits into X-file confinement. Waiting for Susan are Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), the gelatinous B.O.B. (Seth Rogen), the gatory Missing Link (Will Arnett) and a huge, grubby, voiceless Insectosaurus. It's another band of weirdo-heroes to follow the X-Men and Watchmen, with the usual mission: to save Planet Earth, this time from the space-traveling supervillain Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsters vs Aliens: A 3-D Doozy | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...buzzes—with the exception, perhaps, of some inspired sitar twangs early in “Killr Punx, Scary Demons.”Take, for example, the representative first track of “Wavvves,” entitled “Rainbow Everywhere.” A voiceless introduction to the album, the piece jumps between electric frequencies underneath heavy static and hovers around just a couple of simple chords. The track ends up sounding awfully reminiscent of an elongated modem dial-up tone. Similarly, the incessant static buzz of “More...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wavves | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...population—currently about 6,000 strong. Facing financial difficulties, their biweekly newspaper, Spare Change News, may soon close. We must do what we can to save and preserve Spare Change as a forum for homeless concerns, and a voice “for those who had been voiceless.” In many ways, Harvard Square is a haven for the homeless. Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS), the only entirely student-run shelter in America, has provided beds, food, and social programs—including health services, jobs, and permanent housing—to homeless people for over...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Lending a Hand | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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