when oh when will the academics turn their minds to the things that REALLY matter?
in-depth socio-cultural analysis is required of what large lorries do and say when backing up viz:
i. beeping (common) (as muck)
ii. “ATTENTION! This VE-HICLE is reVARSING!” (i hear this most weeks in hackney, but have not yet seen the lorry in question — the accent is not-quite posh but the delivery is, in a sort of male jolly-hockey-sticks YOU MUST DO THIS NOW but IT’S ALL A BIT OF FUN type way)
iii. other (er = plz do my homework for me ok thx bye)
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The variations beeping are worth investigating as well, whether it’s just a regular BEEP BEEP BEEP sound or whether it’s a beep BEEEEEP beeep BEEEEEP beep BEEEEP or even a kind of BigTrak style bip-bop-bop-bip-bop.
Yep, Big Trak : bip-bop-bip-bop “Vehicle Reversing” bip-bop-bip-bop.
absolutely yes! i am not very awake yet — i posted immediately after hearing (b) bcz i wanted not to forget it as i have done before, and that meant i couldn’t cudgel pre-coffee brane into remembering any other species of backing-up noise… b. is particularly weird bcz it is unusually expressive in itself, even though i think it’s generated robotically, but then repeated over and over in a loop, so it goes from being a bit camp and fruity (first time) to VERY STRANGE INDEED tenth time
it’s very Terminator. i imagine half the truck getting torn away by a rock-propelled grenade and that cheerful voice continuing to bark out its safety instructions, an octave lower