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SAN JOSE, CA — This place is packed! Some forty phone bankers are pitching some major woo. They’re doing a great job reading their scripts, except when they get to this part: “It’s time to move beyond the polarizing politics of the past.” Ok, sure, Scarlett Johansson pulls off this line in robo calls without a hitch, but for average people, it’s kind of a persistently perilous problem. Chuck from Chicago, who’s sitting next to me, has said the PPP at least 100 times, and he’s still not sure he’s mastered it. “I can’t figure out how to make it sound natural,” he said. It might be time to try out something else. Maybe our readers have some suggestions. Nattering Negativity of the Nineties?
