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awesmoe
Nov 30, 2005

Pillbug
I didnt enjoy the second person, but you get used to it, and the book is good enough it's worth ploughing on

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awesmoe
Nov 30, 2005

Pillbug

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

The Audible VO struggling with New Zealand slang ends up creating a bunch of moments that are funny for very different reasons than intended. Like don't get me wrong, she does a great job and Kiwi slang is weird as poo poo, it's just very funny to hear "You egg!" said like it's Elizabeth Bennet admonishing Mr. Darcy. It's a playground insult, it's like an equivalent of "buttmunch" or something and I think the original intent was to make them sound childish, but the VO delivers it with such tremendous gravitas.

There is also the phrase "lose her [ba]nana" which the VO reads as "lose her nanna" and bless her, nobody deserves to have to deal with New Zealand English and she's doing her best.

you know i cant grab your ghost chips gideon

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