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Larry Page is 'Speechless' now

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I've never seen an article this long contain so little information.

Oh, there's a fair bit of meta-information on the current state of Wall Street reporting and analysis. :-)

You can be speechless and still show up places, make an appearance...

So he lost his voice and you know for a fact he won't be able to speak for weeks? I wish journalism still involved actual curiosity , critical thinking, and a drive for the truth.

I thought that would be about the new audio search by Microsoft.

In other news, Eric Schmidt purchased a voodoo doll.

I'm sorry why do we care? He just lost his voice. It happens.

One typically doesn't lose their voice for multiple weeks in a row, or know that it will take weeks to recover for that matter.

Scott Adams (author of Dilbert) suffered from this. There's a great article from Wired a few years back.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-08/ff_adams?...

Thanks for taking the time to look this up, this is immediately what I thought of as well.

Maybe it just speaks to my own ignorance, but I found his whole public discussion (he regularly blogged about it) of his language issue incredibly fascinating: he could speak at public events, but not one on one, he had some success with 'singing' words but he couldn't emit them if spoken, etc.

I don't think the underlying cause is the same, but I've developed the inability to write certain letters and numbers, or at least not without a lot of effort. Particularly M, N, S, W and 8. My brain knows how to form the letter, but my fingers won't make the motions. Usually I have to move the pencil back and forth in a line 6 or 7 times before the rest of the letter forms. It's kind of embarrassing when someone is watching my sign my name since it starts with an M. I have no idea where this came from, but it hasn't always been the case.

At that point, one generally consults a specialist. In this case: please go see a doctor!

Maybe he needs Google Voice.

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