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You're listening to 20,000 hurts. I'm Dallas Taylor.

As the creative director at my sound design studio de facto sound,

I often find myself using made up words and phrases to get my ideas

across, like cerebral sparklies into an airy release, or bit crushed flitter reverse suck dropout

into a pit of despair.

Or verify, ramp the music to continue my thoughts.

But while I often end up feeling a little ridiculous,

the sound design team knows exactly what I mean. But while I often end up feeling a little ridiculous,

the sound design team knows exactly what I mean.

For everything else, I'm lucky enough

to work with a linguistic expert.

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