Jill Talk Pretty One Day

“One speculated that, like a politician, she had trained herself to limit the space between sentences so that it would be hard to interrupt her; another said she had probably acquired the accent in an attempt to not sound too New York while she was an undergraduate at Harvard… a college roommate of Abramson’s, has said that the accent probably has something to do with trying to sound a bit like Bob Dylan.”

Lots of folks in this super-long New Yorker profile of the new executive editor of The New York Times have opinions about her speaking voice. Seriously, it comes up like five times! My guess is she’s just taking time to think about the words that are coming out of her mouth, unlike some people.