Empress of Mars: Undisputed

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)

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Phorm The Vixdjinn

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

@zebratron2084

"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."

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Damage control kobold

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

@Phorm @zebratron2084

that is one scary horse.

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Phorm The Vixdjinn

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

@001zlnv @zebratron2084

The scene that series of phrases originates from is one of the most genuinely disturbing things I've ever seen on television.

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Empress of Mars: Undisputed

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

@Phorm @001zlnv Found one of the clips! I really need to break down and watch the rest of S3, don't I...

youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8s6IGq2H

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Empress of Mars: Undisputed

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

@Phorm @001zlnv Also, huh, I guess now I know what voice mail I'm leaving all the GOP senators on Monday. =^________^=

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Phorm The Vixdjinn

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

@zebratron2084 @001zlnv

Yes - You absolutely should watch The Return if you have the stomach for it. It's very slow, it's not at all what people expected, and Lynch takes it in a weird direction that I'm not sure I fully liked. But I appreciated it, and it's very well done.

Also, ABSOLUTELY yes to the voice mail idea. Heck that's good.

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Empress of Mars: Undisputed
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re: linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome 

@Phorm @001zlnv I mean, I enjoyed What Did Jack Do? ffs, so I will probably be able to deal with The Return!

Also now I wonder if the White Horse knows the Red Rabbit...

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Phorm The Vixdjinn

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

@zebratron2084 @001zlnv

If you do, I'd love to know what you think!

(Also, if you need some 'sourcing' on The Return *wink wink nudge nudge* Feel free to let me know privately)

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Empress of Mars: Undisputed

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

@Phorm @001zlnv nah i got a proverbial guy XD

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Empress of Mars: Undisputed

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

@Phorm @001zlnv *wink wink nudge nudge*

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