~SOLO Selected Works by John Graham Brooks - tg

[TriciaG]

The way you're proposing reading the table sounds fine to me.

Footnotes are at your discretion. You could leave it out altogether if you want, or, as you say, you can move it to the end of the sentence if you like that best.

[brandonbrinkley]

Section 2 has been copied to a local text file for scripting purposes, proofread for copy/paste errors, and is ready for recording. Word count is 1909 for the source text (i.e. excluding LV intro and ending text) and the MW has been updated accordingly.

Section 1 proofing is in progress. With the reading of the table as mentioned in the previous message, word count is currently at 6497.

Current plan is to finish proofing Section 1 and record Section 2 this week.

[brandonbrinkley]

Had a delay last week. I've scripted out section 2 with the intro and ending and just finished working out the phonetics of the German words. Plan to make the first recording tomorrow (I usually do a few).

I did decide to drop the footnote, as it was long and difficult to work in without diverting attention from the main point.

Question: There are several lines and sentence segments that are in quotes, though they don't seem to be direct quotes from anyone in particular. In my head this reads like an old radio news broadcast, like someone in the 1930s reading a newspaper article over the air. I feel like I should be using the words "quote" and "end quote" to demark these phrases. Is this acceeptible? For example:

...outspoken disapprobation from many well-known citizens "from scientific circles," who have no sympathy...

would literally be read:

...outspoken disapprobation from many well-known citizens, -- quote -- from scientific circles -- end quote -- who have no sympathy...

If not, in this case I would probably just emphasize the word "scientific" such that one might understand that I am using "air quotes". In fact, I would do this in some cases anyway so that I don't over use the quote/end-quote thing, (Having read this one again a few times over, I think I chose a bad example, but there are longer quotes that do feel more like actual quotes, even if no source is cited by the author.)

Thanks!

[TriciaG]

I think you're on the right track. You can either do "quote" "end quote" or change the tone of your voice to give the impression you're after. And yes, too many instances of "quote" "end quote" can be tiring. Go with your gut.

[brandonbrinkley]

I think you're on the right track. You can either do "quote" "end quote" or change the tone of your voice to give the impression you're after. And yes, too many instances of "quote" "end quote" can be tiring. Go with your gut.

Awesome, I'll try to give it another pass tonight. Thanks for the quick reply!

[brandonbrinkley]

Quick update. My work circumstances have changed. We've been called into the office 100% (no more hybrid) and we are moving buildings and the conference room where I would normally record at lunch no longer exists. While I'm figuring out what to do about recording space, I'm continuing to proof the text versions of the documents (their OCR is hit-or-miss sometimes) and scripting them out the way I want to read them. Not sure how long until I can post a recording, but at this point I hope to be able to do some batch recording.

Incidentally, I've considered finding a volunteer editor to help with this. Should I find one, it is ok to say "Read by... and edited by..." at the end of the recording? Thanks!

[TriciaG]

Incidentally, I've considered finding a volunteer editor to help with this. Should I find one, it is ok to say "Read by... and edited by..." at the end of the recording? Thanks!

Yes, I think that's fine. We can also give a bit of credit in the book description that shows on the catalog page.