[Sca-cooks] OT (saaarry!) Nice SCA Analysis

[Philip & Susan Troy]

david friedman wrote:


>>      Muslim men were short and spoke in a loud, nasal
>> voice.  There is
>>      a widespread theory that Muslims were generally
>> closet Jews with
>>      surnames like Friedman."
>>
>> A local peculiarity, Your Grace? Or, perhaps a scribal
>> error?
>
>
> Bad hearing. My lady wife assures me my voice is not nasal.

I, of course, do not naturally have a high, nasal voice, but I have
cultivated it in the style of many of the great Roman orators...

Both Caesar and Cicero are specifically mentioned as having rather
squeaky voices when engaged in public speaking. I assumed the
professional rhetorician David Friedman simply fell into this category.

Adamantius
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