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oldpainless posted:IT is a great book but its nearly impossible to go a page without King putting some I would loving love to hear King deliver Detta's dialogue. Probably over headphones though.
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bean_shadow posted:Stephen King’s Jim Crow voice appears A LOT in his books and they are all cringe inducing. To be fair to the man while he's a fairly liberally minded white guy he's old as gently caress and born/lived in MAINE. Every loving black influence in his life has probably come from Southern Lit or Blaxploitation films. It's questionable but goddamn I don't think the guy's jonesing for loving segregation or anything.
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bitterandtwisted posted:The mobile machine is kept so clean And the iPhone toots And the captain shoots With the body cam telling the how's and why's
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# ? Oct 5, 2017 13:18 |
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"There are more black bears in Maine then black people"
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# ? Oct 5, 2017 16:19 |
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Speaking about Stephen King - I liked Rose Red, and the Prequel movie "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer". Ellen was a cool character, and her BFF Sukeena was one of the least cringeworthy black characters he wrote because she just spoke with a soft afrikaans cadence. She was a midwife for Ellen when she was giving birth on an expedition in Africa, and they became best friends and Sukeena came back to England to help Ellen plan the titular house. While considered by many to be a servant due to the time period, Ellen considered her to be a friend, and eventually referred to her as her sister.
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# ? Oct 5, 2017 22:51 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Oh my. The Stand has a terrible reader. He pronounces a lot of words oddly wrong, and some of his voices are just embarrassing. And yes, the gaps are weird.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 02:44 |
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Choco1980 posted:The Stand has a terrible reader. He pronounces a lot of words oddly wrong, and some of his voices are just embarrassing. And yes, the gaps are weird. loving american audiobooks calling solder "sodder" makes me want to die
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 08:27 |
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:"There are more black bears in Maine then black people" There are probably more black bears in maine than white people. Ok that's not true probably but it's possibly close.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 08:28 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:There are probably more black bears in maine than white people. Ok that's not true probably but it's possibly close. african american bears, thanks.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 08:29 |
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:african american bears, thanks. It was such a great success with Africanised honey bees. Are we now going to see bears releasing pheromones when threatened and causing every bear in a 5 mile radius to swarm?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:It was such a great success with Africanised honey bees. Are we now going to see bears releasing pheromones when threatened and causing every bear in a 5 mile radius to swarm? shh don't talk like that it's illegal now
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 09:23 |
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I wonder if Maine's youth still try to steal the bat ornaments from King's fence.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 09:30 |
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Choco1980 posted:The Stand has a terrible reader. He pronounces a lot of words oddly wrong, and some of his voices are just embarrassing. And yes, the gaps are weird. I was listening to an audiobook some time ago and the adult male reader tried to do a "10 year old girl" voice and I literally couldn't finish it.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 09:42 |
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Foxhound posted:I was listening to an audiobook some time ago and the adult male reader tried to do a "10 year old girl" voice and I literally couldn't finish it. Anytime a audibook narrator tries to do a voice for a character the opposite sex of them is almost always hillariously bad, especially if the character has some sort of accent or speech quirk.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 12:50 |
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King's 11-22-63 audiobook had an alright reader, until he had to do the lady voices and then it sounded worse than a guy in a dress pretending to be a woman. And then the sex scenes started and I had to just skip ahead 2 or 3 minutes. I probably missed something important about Kennedy. There are plenty of narrators who can do a lady voice. Usually it involves not actually trying to make yourself sound like a lady, because that never works - unless you're David Sedaris.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 13:24 |
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Anytime a audibook narrator tries to do a voice for a character the opposite sex of them is almost always hillariously bad, especially if the character has some sort of accent or speech quirk. I quite like in the Wheel of Time audiobooks when the guy reader does a female speaking a male character's chapter. It is kinda silly, but you quickly don't worry about it because both the male and female voices are very good throughout. I prefer the entire chapters being either male or female depending on the POV over 2 people switching off during conversations. I can settle the alcohol driving argument. If I'm drinking water, soda, juice, etc. and driving am I drink-driving? If No, then what makes it drink-driving? Drinking alcohol specifically. What is it called when you have alcohol and are impaired? Drunk or Drink? Drink-driving must mean Drunk-driving in this context. If we agree about that then it doesn't matter what it's called. Jesus, I can't look at the word drink anymore. There was a fairly recent SVU episode about how rappers/promoters hire trans-women to come to clubs and one of the rappers about to make his debut falls in love with one of these women, but his record producer boss doesn't want that kind if image on his new talent, so he has his henchman loving track her down in a bathroom and rape her with a metal pipe. She ends up dying but the episode makes it seem like you should feel bad for the rapper who is torn between his love of this woman and his manly image. He kills the henchman, but won't admit he did it over love, and takes a worse prison sentence. And the producer/boss gets off the best overall because the rapper going to prison makes his album sell like crazy and the episode ends. It made me physically ill. Twitter was a big part of the episode as it confirmed alibi's and caught people lying. I used to imagine that twitter/facebook things will eventually not age well, but at this point I'm not sure. Shows that used to make fake versions like "FriendSpace" or "ChatBook" now just use the real names because they're so integrated into culture. Makes me wonder if they are here to stay. Anyone else notice that the fake versions don't show up as much or am I way off on that?
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 14:18 |
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Yeah they used to use fakenames, but now they just don't bother and say it's facebook or whatever.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Anytime a audibook narrator tries to do a voice for a character the opposite sex of them is almost always hillariously bad, especially if the character has some sort of accent or speech quirk. I think you're right for lesser skilled narrators, but for the Game of Thrones audiobooks narrator Roy Dotrice does an excellent job voicing Arya and other female characters. Although to be fair he isn't trying to use a falsetto. But yeah, when an audiobook narrator makes a poor decision for a major character it can sink the whole project. I listened to The Library at Mount Char, which has Carolyn as the main character, which paired with a female narrator should be no problem, right? Except she gave Carolyn, who is supposed to a brilliant tactician who can speak any language, an irritating valley girl voice that either made her sound condescending or clueless. And let's not get into Wil Wheaton narrating all of Ready Player One. The man cannot do even one voice, let alone a whole book.
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:loving american audiobooks calling solder "sodder" makes me want to die
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:loving american audiobooks calling solder "sodder" makes me want to die Seek help immediately if pronunciation variability makes you suicidal.
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The Bloop posted:Seek help immediately if pronunciation variability makes you suicidal. James Bond made more sense after learning he was calling Judi Dench “ma’am”, not “mum”
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wait what the gently caress how do you Brits(?) pronounce solder "solder"
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http://nedroid.com/2011/08/pronunciation-station/
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The Bloop posted:Seek help immediately if pronunciation variability makes you suicidal. I did but they kept wanting to “institutionalise” me so I had to kill them.
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Arivia posted:I did but they kept wanting to “institutionalise” me so I had to kill them. idgi is this another brit triggering yankism or something
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Hyrax Attack! posted:James Bond made more sense after learning he was calling Judi Dench “ma’am”, not “mum” She basically is his tutting mother, though. Especially in Skyfall.
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 17:07 |
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I figured I was 10% to get a real answer and 90% to get "solder".
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 17:41 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:
Real, not funny, answer: 'sole-dur'
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 18:06 |
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I got sod but I'm not a sodder...
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wait what the gently caress how do you Brits(?) pronounce solder "sword"
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# ? Oct 6, 2017 18:49 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wait what the gently caress how do you Brits(?) pronounce solder http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=solder
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Krispy Wafer posted:There are plenty of narrators who can do a lady voice. Usually it involves not actually trying to make yourself sound like a lady, because that never works - unless you're David Sedaris. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DUdpmgmz4
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Inescapable Duck posted:She basically is his tutting mother, though. Especially in Skyfall. It wasn't until about halfway through that movie that I realized that he was saying "ma'am" and not just being a cheeky, sarcastic rear end-hat.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I think you're right for lesser skilled narrators, but for the Game of Thrones audiobooks narrator Roy Dotrice does an excellent job voicing Arya and other female characters. Although to be fair he isn't trying to use a falsetto. Stephen Fry does an amazing job on the Harry Potter books, even going as far to make the kids sound older as the books go on. Dotrice was good on the GoT books early on, but you can tell as the series went on he lost his enthusiasm. I mean, in one of them, at one point he pronounces "Brienne" three different ways in one paragraph.
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Davros1 posted:Stephen Fry does an amazing job on the Harry Potter books, even going as far to make the kids sound older as the books go on. Dotrice was good on the GoT books early on, but you can tell as the series went on he lost his enthusiasm. I mean, in one of them, at one point he pronounces "Brienne" three different ways in one paragraph. I think Dotrice got very sick and had to take a book off, and just couldn't regain his groove
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Adimeadozen posted:The rare chance you can feel like maybe you pronounce something right as an American The british lose all rights to claim they pronounce things correctly when they pronounce lieutenant as "leftenant".
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IShallRiseAgain posted:The british lose all rights to claim they pronounce things correctly when they pronounce lieutenant as "leftenant".
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DrBouvenstein posted:It's a silly thing to call it. It's a legal term. As in that's the name of the offence of driving under the influence of alcohol in the statute.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:wait what the gently caress how do you Brits(?) pronounce solder sol-der
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IShallRiseAgain posted:The british lose all rights to claim they pronounce things correctly when they pronounce lieutenant as "leftenant". Makes sense though when you consider you're otherwise referring to someone as a poo poo/toilet tenant.
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