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>And, by the way, Bridget, the Adam's Apple is simply the voice box. Everyone has one, it's just higher up in females, so you can't see it.<
Is this why women tend to have higher voices than men ?
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> No, Pearl is trying to strangle her -- but I think we should be told who.
This just goes to show how useful is the apostrophe, and one of my "pet peeves" is the rapid decline in its use. If Pearl were the garrotter, it should read, "Pearl's at her throat." the apostrophe, in this case, standing for the missing "i" in "is": without the apostrophe, "Pearls" is clearly plural, as you would expect. One pearl at her throat would look silly. Or mean.
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Is this why women tend to have higher voices than men?
I'm not quite sure, but I believe it has something to do with it. It would make sense, seeing as with a musical instrument, the further the air travels, the lower the note produced is. I suspect this is the same for the voice box.
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Pearl?
No, the her is undefined. I came to assume that "Pearls" meant the pearls of such a necklace, and therefore someone was strangling "her" with a pearl necklace.
And Bingley, Pearl: a singer? Do you mean Jewel? :)
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>Is this why women tend to have higher voices than men?
>I'm not quite sure, but I believe it has something to do with it. It would make sense, seeing as with a musical instrument, the further the air travels, the lower the note produced is. I suspect this is the same for the voice box.
Not in this case, Jazz. A woman's voicebox is smaller, so the vocal cords are shorter. The shorter the vibrating sound producer, the higher the pitch produced. Try this on a violin or a guitar. Stop the string closer to the bridge and vibrate it. It will have a higher pitch.
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If Pearl were the garrotter, it should read, "Pearl's at her throat."
True, but the original comment was "sounds as if" and the sound is the same with or without the apostrophe.
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> True, but the original comment was "sounds as if" and the sound is the same with or without the apostrophe
Put that way, I can only agree with you.
It makes Victor Borge's suggestion that punctuation marks should have sounds in speech very attractive.
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A woman's voicebox is smaller, so the vocal cords are shorter. The shorter the vibrating sound producer, the higher the pitch produced. Try this on a violin or a guitar. Stop the string closer to the bridge and vibrate it. It will have a higher pitch.
I knew it was something like that.
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>If Pearl were the garrotter<
She's not a garrotter (which sounds to me like a coining rather than a word, although I haven't checked). She's a vampire.
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