Wikipedia strives for an "encyclopedic tone," but what does such a tone sound like?
Giovanni Vlacancich knows. He patented a method of "assigning each letter in an alphabet a musical note, converting words in a message into the musical notes and then using the musical notes to communicate the message to another human being." When played all together, the alphabetic notes of Wikipedia's encyclopedic tone sound like ... well, one hates to use the word
cacophony.