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Sounds canned?

Here’s a good example of sounding canned and insincere. If you watch a comedian do a talk show routine on TV, you hear sounds of laughter from the audience now and then but after a while you realize the laughers are replays of pre-recorded laughing sounds. The laughers all sound similar and sometimes come out even after the comedian says something that’s decidedly not funny.

That type of laughter has its name: canned laughter or sounds of laughter that are pre-recorded and replayed at will.

And, after a while, they begin to put people off because they don’t sound natural.

Got it?

All right, here are media examples of situations where people appear canned:

1. On a bright Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift is on good behavior, as usual. In high school, she had a 4.0 average; when she was home-schooled during her junior and senior years, she finished both years of course work in 12 months. She has never changed her hair color, won't engage in any remotely dangerous type of physical activity and bites her nails to the quick. At 19 years old, she says she has never had a cigarette. She says she has never had a drop of alcohol. “I have no interest in drinking,” she says, her blue eyes focused and intent beneath kohl liner and liberally applied eye shadow. “I always want to be responsible for the things I say and do.” Then she adds, “Also, I would have a problem lying to my parents about that.”