Monday, August 01, 2005

The Mumbles

It seems that Yeshiva Bochurimm (Jewish Seminary students) get a bad rap. They are stereotyped as habitual mumblers. Eloquent and enunciated speech is assumed to be foreign to their mannerisms. As one (depends on who you ask) of the accused, I fully concur. So maybe are speech is vague and hard to follow. There are a lot of muscles in the mouth, many of which need to be utilized in the forming of audible language. Obviously, the Bochur can't be expected to channel all of his calorie burning in the cranial area if he is going to detour precious energy to operate his jaw muscles. So the effect is slurred speech. But it has such a gruff, street tough feel to it anyways. Brilliant and in touch with the common person...isn't that what a Yeshiva Bochur is supposed to be?

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