As pretty much a newcomer to Librivox, I'm not sure if this has been raised here before, but I imagine over the years readers have caught themselves making some pretty funny slips of the tongue that (presumably for the public good) had to be edited out of their readings. Might be amusing to keep a collection of these as they arise.
Not exactly bring-the-house-down funny, perhaps, but I did just catch myself reading "Then she began to grow gay" as "Then she began to go gray"...
Slips of the tongue
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Kirkus Reviews on my novel "1961": https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-dann/1961/
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Some of those are in the two Bloopers threads. Many of the bloopers aren't misspeaks, but environmental interruptions - but there are some there!
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America Exploration: The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
we had a podcast to this topic:TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 31st, 2021, 12:28 am As pretty much a newcomer to Librivox, I'm not sure if this has been raised here before, but I imagine over the years readers have caught themselves making some pretty funny slips of the tongue that (presumably for the public good) had to be edited out of their readings. Might be amusing to keep a collection of these as they arise.
Not exactly bring-the-house-down funny, perhaps, but I did just catch myself reading "Then she began to grow gay" as "Then she began to go gray"...
Culture, Bloopers and Prooflistening 107 https://ia800301.us.archive.org/17/items/librivox_community_2009/librivox_community_podcast_107.mp3
or indirectly: 148 A Salute to Proof-Listening https://ia600702.us.archive.org/12/items/librivox_community_2013/librivox_community_podcast_148_128kb.mp3
general list of podcasts: https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast
and we have a forum thread for bloopers - which was deemed that important, that it has an own upload folder:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=28787
(please note the first posting)
...which brings me to...
a wiki page, which has some obsolete links.
thank you, will try to post that in the correct section
edit: tricia was faster
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If you have a series of words that start with the same letter, or have two consonants that swap in close succession, this happens a lot.
I imagine that if I were doing this using analogue technology, I would have used up a bottle or two of splicing cement.
I imagine that if I were doing this using analogue technology, I would have used up a bottle or two of splicing cement.
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Old tongue twister: I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son and I'll go on plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.
Too easy to switch similar sounds and get an unintended meaning.
Peter
Too easy to switch similar sounds and get an unintended meaning.
Peter
"I think, therefore I am, I think." Solomon Cohen, in Terry Pratchett's Dodger
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Old tongue twister: I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son and I'll go on plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.
Too easy to switch similar sounds and get an unintended meaning. Designed to lubricate the tongue.
Peter
Too easy to switch similar sounds and get an unintended meaning. Designed to lubricate the tongue.
Peter
"I think, therefore I am, I think." Solomon Cohen, in Terry Pratchett's Dodger
Absolutely!
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
I got one one day, reading "the foundational fact of art". It came out the foundational fart. I laughed so hard I left it in for the PL (with a note, of course), and she laughed too. Love bloopers. We could have an audio book full of them.
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I asked my librarian about the noise, and she said, "no one would come here
if they weren't allowed to talk out loud." So I read out loud.
Je lis à haute voix car refléchir fait trop de bruit!
if they weren't allowed to talk out loud." So I read out loud.
Je lis à haute voix car refléchir fait trop de bruit!
James Joyce would have loved that one. Dean Swift, too.
Peter Dann
My solos: https://www.peterdannauthor.com/on-librivox/
Kirkus Reviews on my novel "1961": https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-dann/1961/
My solos: https://www.peterdannauthor.com/on-librivox/
Kirkus Reviews on my novel "1961": https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-dann/1961/