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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What happens when I "lose my voice?"
gpt
You make noise by pushing air through your vocal chords. Your vocal chords are not actually chords, but a gross vagina looking hole with lip like flaps on it.

You can open and close the lip like flaps, which changes the amount of air getting through, which changes the sound made.

Sometimes those flaps get swollen. Either by being damaged and torn by pushing too much air out at once (screaming or yelling), or by inflammation due to infection.

Swollen flaps are more difficult to move, predict, and manage. So, your voice is harder to control. Being swollen, they are also larger and let less air out. And you lose your voice.