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Have you ever been to a slam poetry reading? If so, you’ll appreciate this explanation from Vice on why they can be so annoying. It’s “slam voice”—that “affected vocal delivery” that uses “mournful tone, stilted, Shatneresque pacing, and long crescendos.”

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