linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome 

Found this today while researching urban legends about phone numbers. This is delightfully creepy and I'll be very disappointed if none of my writer friends ever sneak some of these into a horror novel or something..

cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/har

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_

gizmodo.com/the-harvard-senten

(tl;dr: it's a carefully formulated series of phonetically balanced phrases for use in testing phones; out of context, most of them are rather creepy in a way that I find... pretty awesome, honestly, this is my kind of horror)

linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome 

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re: linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome 

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That feels particularly creepy and ominous today, as the South San Francisco sign (Akin the the HollyWood sign, but more local to me) went up in a blaze.

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