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Thank you both! And no worries about the difficulty with recording - Lang is tough one
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Sweetie - I somehow got the impression that we were talking Frog money!!!
(I've never been too clued up on that - I think the educational system fried my brains
when they introduced decimalisation in 196_ - I was only four when I started school,
so I can't give you an exact date when they taught me to start counting in tens! )
I mean, this is a story (historical or not,) about a cross-dressing French 'person'- sounds like a pretty switched on Dude to me, actually, -
so I really didn't think that 'thruppence' and 'tuppence' would be major factors! Apologies if I was wrong -
I'm only 55 years young - I can't help it! )
(And I ALWAYS appreciate it when someone offers to tie my shoelaces for me! )
Andrew
(I've never been too clued up on that - I think the educational system fried my brains
when they introduced decimalisation in 196_ - I was only four when I started school,
so I can't give you an exact date when they taught me to start counting in tens! )
I mean, this is a story (historical or not,) about a cross-dressing French 'person'- sounds like a pretty switched on Dude to me, actually, -
so I really didn't think that 'thruppence' and 'tuppence' would be major factors! Apologies if I was wrong -
I'm only 55 years young - I can't help it! )
(And I ALWAYS appreciate it when someone offers to tie my shoelaces for me! )
Andrew
I have absolutely nothing in this world but time - so I believe I should invest it wisely...
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February 15 1971... I was 8. Penny chews continued to be penny chews... but a penny was worth considerably less! And “old money “ and “new money” coexisted for a while... not sure how long but it seemed like ages (it probably wasn’t!)
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'71?
Ah yes - I remember it well! (I was 8 years old then, also!)
You could get 8 'Fruit Salads' or 8 'Blackjacks' - for a ha'pny!
And you tell kids that nowadays...
(I'm not old - I've just survived longer than most of the kids I grew up with...)
Ah yes - I remember it well! (I was 8 years old then, also!)
You could get 8 'Fruit Salads' or 8 'Blackjacks' - for a ha'pny!
And you tell kids that nowadays...
(I'm not old - I've just survived longer than most of the kids I grew up with...)
I have absolutely nothing in this world but time - so I believe I should invest it wisely...
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Ch 9: submitted for approval TRT 27:14
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_09_lang_128kb.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_09_lang_128kb.mp3
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
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Thanks!voxdockery wrote: ↑July 31st, 2019, 6:49 am Ch 9: submitted for approval TRT 27:14
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_09_lang_128kb.mp3
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Hi Elsie! I've uploaded my section: section 8 - the strange case of daniel dunglas home; duration: 42:58.
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_08_lang_128kb.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_08_lang_128kb.mp3
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Thank you!champagnesupernova wrote: ↑August 4th, 2019, 10:11 pm Hi Elsie! I've uploaded my section: section 8 - the strange case of daniel dunglas home; duration: 42:58.
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_08_lang_128kb.mp3
Elsie
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Sections 6 and 9 PL OK
Section 8 PL Notes:
37:27 repeat “Dr Carpenter 1871 discredited the experiments”
40:11 repeat “thus the table rose completely off the ground several times whilst the gentlemen present”
Section 8 PL Notes:
37:27 repeat “Dr Carpenter 1871 discredited the experiments”
40:11 repeat “thus the table rose completely off the ground several times whilst the gentlemen present”
Elsie
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Hey Andrew! Here are my PL Notes for Section 11:
First, I think you misread Louis XV as Louis the Fourteenth (which would be Louis XIV) when Louis XV should be read as Louis the Fifteenth. I hate to make you go back and correct it, but I think it does make a difference in the author’s intent.
Here are the times for “Louis XV”: 2:33, 4:56, 7:28, 8:15, 11:50, 14:33, 15:59, 17:08, 18:22, 18:29 20:01, 20:48, 23:01, 23:25, and 23:43
10:50 heard “by 36 days” text says “by 36 hours”
26:43 heard “now to join the privacy” text says “now to join the troops being sent to America. He was consigned to retreat in the Castle of Dijon (1779); he had become a weariness to official mankind. He withdrew (1781-85) to privacy”
27:15 don’t forget to insert “fetched 2 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence!” (Thanks, Lynnet! I would have been totally lost on that one as an American young adult )
These two are optional - only fix this if you want to. Perhaps the way you pronounced it is the British way. Anyway, this is the American way. I just thought you might want to know since you had said you had not seen some words before and guessed pronounciation wise.
13:51 and 13:53 quell pronounce as “kwell”
27:05 quale pronounce as “kwalay”
Anyway, great job on a difficult section!
First, I think you misread Louis XV as Louis the Fourteenth (which would be Louis XIV) when Louis XV should be read as Louis the Fifteenth. I hate to make you go back and correct it, but I think it does make a difference in the author’s intent.
Here are the times for “Louis XV”: 2:33, 4:56, 7:28, 8:15, 11:50, 14:33, 15:59, 17:08, 18:22, 18:29 20:01, 20:48, 23:01, 23:25, and 23:43
10:50 heard “by 36 days” text says “by 36 hours”
26:43 heard “now to join the privacy” text says “now to join the troops being sent to America. He was consigned to retreat in the Castle of Dijon (1779); he had become a weariness to official mankind. He withdrew (1781-85) to privacy”
27:15 don’t forget to insert “fetched 2 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence!” (Thanks, Lynnet! I would have been totally lost on that one as an American young adult )
These two are optional - only fix this if you want to. Perhaps the way you pronounced it is the British way. Anyway, this is the American way. I just thought you might want to know since you had said you had not seen some words before and guessed pronounciation wise.
13:51 and 13:53 quell pronounce as “kwell”
27:05 quale pronounce as “kwalay”
Anyway, great job on a difficult section!
Elsie
Like Sweden and coming of age stories? Read for Pelle the Conqueror
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Thanks for all the tips!
I shall sort them out as soon as I can - but that may be a little while...
It makes life a little confusing when we are 'seperated by a common language' -
particularly when you are trying to cope with a third. (Which you don't speak!)
I shall sort them out as soon as I can - but that may be a little while...
It makes life a little confusing when we are 'seperated by a common language' -
particularly when you are trying to cope with a third. (Which you don't speak!)
I have absolutely nothing in this world but time - so I believe I should invest it wisely...
I nearly missed this note re. section 6!elsieselwyn wrote: ↑August 13th, 2019, 12:44 pm Sections 6 and 9 PL OK
Section 8 PL Notes:
37:27 repeat “Dr Carpenter 1871 discredited the experiments”
40:11 repeat “thus the table rose completely off the ground several times whilst the gentlemen present”
Boy O Boy am I glad it's OK.
...LJB
Louise
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
"every little breeze..."
Fun Fact: 40% of all statistics are wrong.
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
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Thank you!ColleenMc wrote: ↑August 14th, 2019, 5:51 pm Chapter 1:
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/historicalmysteries_01_lang_128kb.mp3
43:16
Colleen
Elsie
Like Sweden and coming of age stories? Read for Pelle the Conqueror
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