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Literal-Minded
Personal blog · literalminded.wordpress.comwriting
Literal-Minded is a personal blog at literalminded.wordpress.com about writing. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Literal-Minded's posts on phonetics, including vowel quality and the IPA, and on panphonic poems built from repeated sounds. The posts are cited as background reading on speech and sound.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Linguistic commentary from a guy who takes things too literally
Most-linked posts?
- /2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-10
What Hacker News says?
I followed the rabbit hole a bit further and found http://dedalvs.free.fr/writing/dpetersoncomps.pdf and https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/engma-enigma/ , which cover the vowel-quality question in more detail.
Comment linking /2008/09/02/engma-enigma/
on “How to read the international phonetic alphabet”Submitted “On Accident” or “By Accident”? as a story · 39 points
HN discussionA "Panphonic Poem" is what may do well here. As in... The pleasure of Shawn’s company Is what I most enjoy. He put a tack on Ms. Yancey’s chair When she called him a horrible boy. At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens Across the width of the room. I count on his schemes to show me a way now Of getting away from my gloom. As discussed here: https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-p...…
Comment linking /2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/
on “Creates hyper-realistic voice clones from just 3 seconds of audio”Submitted A uvular /l/ – Brokaw talking ebola, Middle East allies, fall of the Berlin Wall as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMission impossible cloning skills without the long compile time. "The pleasure of Buzby's company is what I most enjoy. He put a tack on Miss Yancy's chair ..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2kIN9PgvNo https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-p...
Comment linking /2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/
on “Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU”