So glad you are enjoying the format! It's about time I sent off an e-Vox in your direction, if you're willing to receive one. We have much to talk about, I'm sure, beginning with Robert Bly's rhotacism (still grateful for the discovery of that word), and continuing on through sundry other subjects.

And yeah, the aspect of clear intention is what sets this most clearly apart from the voice mail. It really frees you up to luxuriate in the form. Or to share thoughts when they're most lucid in one's own mind, even though the recipient might be asleep/at work/in the middle of a spirit quest/what have you. "The voice certainly adds a more revealing picture of a person than handwriting alone." Well said! It does introduce an element of the personal that seems absent from all text based interaction.

Thanks to for the clarification on handle phonetics, and even more for the totally awesome illustration of humanodons scale, relative to iguanodon. That is one debonaire humanodon. And there's nothing wrong with mumbling. I think it's just style. Vivre le mumble!