Once learned, try stating or playing a tape of speech, and asking the person to interpret certain changes in inflection.
That lack of musical ear might seem strange in a poet who plays the rhythms of speech against regular metres with such suppleness.
For years, Amzah Zia Shah, another Pakistani prisoner here, drove a bus through the streets of Karachi playing the passionate speeches of Mullanah Massoud Azar, the Islamic radical released from an Indian prison after the hijacking of an Indian Airways passenger jet in December 1999.
After writer Julia Ioffe profiled Trump's wife Melania for GQ, she received threats of physical violence, as well as phone calls from someone playing Adolf Hitler speeches and images of her face photoshopped onto Holocaust victims.
All it takes is a curly mullet, some stonewashed denims and a couple of giggling pals playing the free speech card and those cash registers rattle and fill on a perma-loop.
After departure from office, Havel, who was nervous about returning to writing plays instead of speeches, once lamented to an interviewer that it was difficult to elicit an honest opinion of his work from his friends.But a great number of his fellow countrymen were not enthusiastic about their former leader.
They are as unrelated as any two Kims could be — in family tree, style of dress, style of play and style of speech.
The role that syllables play in the production of speech is a matter of considerable debate.
This followed in the footsteps of Luc Etienne's 1957 composition L'Apres-Midi d'Un Magnétophone: Palindromes Phonétiques, which has a similarly palindromic form - a recording of speech played normally, then with the tape running backwards.
In casting her, Foreman is playing with the very notion of speech and how it sounds to foreign ears.
