NPR planet money: The modal American.

"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer) 09/03/2019 at 17:55 • Filed to: None

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NPR: So what of kind car do you drive?

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! : Well, I’m a middle-aged white guy listening to NPR

NPR:...

Modal American: I drive a Volvo Wagon.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > Spanfeller is a twat 09/03/2019 at 18:34

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Yes, but what mode specifically? Dorian? Aeolian? Myxolydian? Locrian?

Just kidding, no one writes in Locrian mode, because it’s terrible, and only exists as a point of theory rather than any sort of practical mode.

Spanfeller is a twat > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 09/03/2019 at 18:39

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This guy is not literally the modal american, he’s a type of modal american, because the data sets they had were so detailed that they couldn’t come up with a single type of mode.

7:07 > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 09/03/2019 at 18:47

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Don’t forget Messiaen’s modes of limited transposition!

boredalways > Spanfeller is a twat 09/03/2019 at 18:54

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I listen to NPR* , not yet middle aged nor white, and used to own 855T that sadly gave up the ghost on Thanksgiving 7 years ago.

I miss it.

Now excuse me while I listen to the latest edition of “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me”.

*raised on PBS in starting in the 70's

facw > boredalways 09/03/2019 at 19:37

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I listen to NPR*, not yet middle aged 

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*raised on PBS in starting in the 70's

So I think I have some bad news for you...

boredalways > facw 09/03/2019 at 19:52

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... it’s because I drive a Jetta TDI now , isn’t it?

For Sweden > Spanfeller is a twat 09/03/2019 at 21:50

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What I love America

For Sweden > boredalways 09/03/2019 at 23:21

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Gen X are the new boomers